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The Power of DESI for Photometric Redshift Calibration: A Case Study with KiDS-1000
Diana Blanco, Alexie Leauthaud, Johannes Ulf Lange +64
Accurate redshift estimates are a critical requirement for weak lensing surveys and one of the main uncertainties in constraints on dark energy and large-scale cosmic structure. In…
Clustering redshift distribution calibration of weak lensing surveys using the DESI-DR1 spectroscopic dataset
R. Ruggeri, C. Blake, J. Aguilar +63
We estimate the source redshift distribution of current weak lensing surveys by applying the clustering-based redshift calibration technique, using the galaxy redshift sample provi…
Cosmological Constraints from Full-Scale Clustering and Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing with DESI DR1
Johannes U. Lange, Alexandra Wells, Andrew Hearin +76
We present constraints on cosmic structure growth from the analysis of galaxy clustering and galaxy--galaxy lensing with galaxies from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DES…
The Composite Spectrum of QSO Absorption Line Systems in DESI DR2
Lucas Napolitano, Adam D. Myers, Adam Tedeschi +43
We present details regarding a composite spectrum of quasar (QSO) absorption line systems. In this composite spectrum we identify more than 70 absorption lines, and observe oxygen…
Joint cosmological fits to DESI-DR1 full-shape clustering and weak gravitational lensing in configuration space
A. Semenaite, C. Blake, A. Porredon +69
We present a joint -pt cosmological analysis of auto- and cross-correlations between the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Data Release 1 (DESI-DR1) Bright Galaxy Surv…
Effect of local environment on Ly line profile in DESI/ODIN LAEs
Ana Sofía M. Uzsoy, Arjun Dey, Anand Raichoor +51
Lyman-Alpha Emitters (LAEs) are star-forming galaxies with significant Ly emission and are often used as tracers of large-scale structure at high redshift. We explore the relati…
Changing-look Active Galactic Nuclei from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. IV. Broad Emission Line Evolution Sequence Among Hα, Mg II, and Hβ
Wei-Jian Guo, Victoria A. Fawcett, Małgorzata Siudek +15
From a parent catalog of 561 changing-look active galactic nuclei (CL-AGNs) identified by Guo et al. (2025), we investigate the evolutionary sequence of broad emission lines using…
The Eddington Ratio Distribution of Narrow Line Active Galactic Nuclei
Michael R. Blanton, Arjun Suresh, Kyle B. Westfall +2
We measure the Eddington ratio distribution of local optical narrow-line active galactic nuclei (AGN) as a function of host galaxy properties, as a potential test of galaxy formati…
ODIN: Characterizing the Three-dimensional Structure of Two Protocluster Complexes at
Vandana Ramakrishnan, Ashley Ortiz, Byeongha Moon +52
We present a detailed study of the 3D morphology of two extended associations of multiple protoclusters at . These protocluster 'complexes', designated COSMOS-z3.1-A and COS…
DESI DR2 Galaxy Luminosity Functions
Samuel G. Moore, Shaun Cole, Michael Wilson +54
We present galaxy luminosity functions (LFs) for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) DR2 Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS) in the g,r,z, and w1 bands over 0.002<z<0.6. Our ana…
AT2025ulz and S250818k: Leveraging DESI spectroscopy in the hunt for a kilonova associated with a sub-solar mass gravitational wave candidate
Xander J. Hall, Antonella Palmese, Brendan O'Connor +47
On August 18th, 2025, the LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA collaboration reported a sub-threshold gravitational wave candidate detection consistent with a sub-solar-mass neutron star merger, den…
Dwarf galaxy halo masses from spectroscopic and photometric lensing in DESI and DES
Helena Treiber, Alexandra Amon, Risa H. Wechsler +46
We present the most precise and lowest-mass weak lensing measurements of dwarf galaxies to date, enabled by spectroscopic lenses from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI…
A Unified Photometric Redshift Calibration for Weak Lensing Surveys using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
Johannes U. Lange, Diana Blanco, Alexie Leauthaud +61
The effective redshift distribution of galaxies is a critical component in the study of weak gravitational lensing. Here, we introduce a new method for determining fo…
A New Way to Discover Strong Gravitational Lenses: Pair-wise Spectroscopic Search from DESI DR1
Yuan-Ming Hsu, Xiaosheng Huang, Christopher J. Storfer +47
We present a new method to search for strong gravitational lensing systems by pairing spectra that are close together on the sky in a spectroscopic survey. We visually inspect 26,6…
DESI DR1 Ly forest: 3D full-shape analysis and cosmological constraints
Andrei Cuceu, Hiram K. Herrera-Alcantar, Calum Gordon +75
We perform an analysis of the full shapes of Lyman- (Ly) forest correlation functions measured from the first data release (DR1) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (…
Cosmological neutrino mass: a frequentist overview in light of DESI
D. Chebat, C. Yèche, E. Armengaud +51
We derive constraints on the neutrino mass using a variety of recent cosmological datasets, including DESI BAO, the full-shape analysis of the DESI matter power spectrum and the on…
Intrinsic alignment demographics for next-generation lensing: Revealing galaxy property trends with DESI Y1 direct measurements
J. Siegel, J. McCullough, A. Amon +60
We present direct measurements of the intrinsic alignments (IA) of over 2 million spectroscopic galaxies using DESI Data Release 1 and imaging from four lensing surveys: DES, HSC,…
DESI EDR: Calibrating the Tully-Fisher Relationship with the DESI Peculiar Velocity Survey
K. Douglass, S. BenZvi, N. Uberoi +45
We calibrate the Tully-Fisher relation (TFR) with data from the DESI Peculiar Velocity (PV) Survey taken during the Survey Validation (SV) period of the DESI galaxy redshift survey…
JWST Discovery of Warm Dust in the Circumgalactic Medium of the Makani Galaxy
Sylvain Veilleux, Steven D. Shockley, Marcio Melendez +10
We report the detection of near- and mid-infrared emission from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) out to ~ 35 kpc in the Makani Galaxy, a compact massive galaxy with a record…
Inference of matter power spectrum at z=0 using DESI DR1 Full-Shape data
R. Cereskaite, E. Mueller, C. Howlett +48
Measurements of galaxy distributions at large cosmic distances capture clustering from the past. In this study, we use a cosmological model to translate these observations into the…
DESI DR2 reference mocks: clustering results from Uchuu-BGS and LRG
E. Fernández-García, F. Prada, A. Smith +64
The aim of this work is to construct mock galaxy catalogues that accurately reproduce the redshift evolution of galaxy number density, clustering statistics, and baryonic propertie…
Reconstructing Quasar Spectra and Measuring the Ly Forest with
ChangHoon Hahn, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Peter Melchior +37
Quasar spectra carry the imprint of foreground intergalactic medium (IGM) through absorption features. In particular, absorption caused by neutral hydrogen gas, the ``Ly forest,…
Beyond Traditional Diagnostics: Identifying Active Galactic Nuclei with Spectral Energy Distribution Fitting in DESI Data
M. Siudek, M. Mezcua, C. Circosta +36
Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are typically identified through their distinctive X-ray or radio emissions, mid-infrared (MIR) colors, or emission lines. However, each method capture…
Identifying Anomalous DESI Galaxy Spectra with a Variational Autoencoder
C. Nicolaou, R. P. Nathan, O. Lahav +43
The tens of millions of spectra being captured by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) provide tremendous discovery potential. In this work we show how Machine Learning,…