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astro-ph.IM2026

The Rubin Observatory Target-of-Opportunity System in the First Year of Operations

Sean Patrick MacBride, R. Lynne Jones, Peter Yoachim +41

The NSF/DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a discovery machine, with unprecedented survey speed, which can be used to identify exotic astrophysical transients. In its prime mission,…

astro-ph.IM2026

GOATS: The next generation software infrastructure for time-domain astronomy at Gemini/NOIRLab. Application to alerts from Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time

Monika Soraisam, Louis Avner, Miguel Gómez +38

Time-domain and multimessenger astronomy (MMA/TDA) targets demand rapid-response follow-up observations. In many cases, it is the only way to make discoveries and advance our under…

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.GA2022★ 2 cited

Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of Ultracompact \ion{H}{2} regions in W51A with NIFS/ALTAIR

Cassio L. Barbosa, Felipe Navarete, Robert D. Blum +1

W51A is the most active star formation region of the Giant \ion{H}{2} region W51. It harbors the two massive proto-clusters W51e and W51\,IRS2, which are very rare in the Galaxy. W…