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19982023
most citedThe Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey of SDSS-III

2.1k citations · 15.6k across the 97 of their papers we have counts for

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97 papers

astro-ph.CO2023★ 17 cited

Mitigating the noise of DESI mocks using analytic control variates

Boryana Hadzhiyska, Martin J. White, Xinyi Chen +30

In order to address fundamental questions related to the expansion history of the Universe and its primordial nature with the next generation of galaxy experiments, we need to mode…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 343 cited

The Early Data Release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +266

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) completed its five-month Survey Validation in May 2021. Spectra of stellar and extragalactic targets from Survey Validation constitu…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 6 cited

Validation of the Scientific Program for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +261

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) was designed to conduct a survey covering 14,000 deg over five years to constrain the cosmic expansion history through precise m…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 41 cited

First Detection of the BAO Signal from Early DESI Data

Jeongin Moon, David Valcin, Michael Rashkovetskyi +65

We present the first detection of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) signal obtained using unblinded data collected during the initial two months of operations of the Stage-IV…

astro-ph.IM2022

The MegaMapper: A Stage-5 Spectroscopic Instrument Concept for the Study of Inflation and Dark Energy

David J. Schlegel, Juna A. Kollmeier, Greg Aldering +86

In this white paper, we present the MegaMapper concept. The MegaMapper is a proposed ground-based experiment to measure Inflation parameters and Dark Energy from galaxy redshifts a…

astro-ph.CO2022

A Spectroscopic Road Map for Cosmic Frontier: DESI, DESI-II, Stage-5

David J. Schlegel, Simone Ferraro, Greg Aldering +62

In this white paper, we present an experimental road map for spectroscopic experiments beyond DESI. DESI will be a transformative cosmological survey in the 2020s, mapping 40 milli…