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DESI Mg II Absorbers: Extinction Characteristics & Quasar Redshift Accuracy
Lucas Napolitano, Adam D. Myers, Vicky Fawcett +32
In this paper, we study how absorption-line systems affect the spectra and redshifts of quasars (QSOs), using catalogs of Mg II absorbers from the early data release (EDR) and firs…
DESI 2024 II: Sample Definitions, Characteristics, and Two-point Clustering Statistics
DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +200
We present the samples of galaxies and quasars used for DESI 2024 cosmological analyses, drawn from the DESI Data Release 1 (DR1). We describe the construction of large-scale struc…
Modified Gravity Constraints from the Full Shape Modeling of Clustering Measurements from DESI 2024
M. Ishak, J. Pan, R. Calderon +68
We present cosmological constraints on deviations from general relativity (GR) from the first-year of clustering observations from Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) in co…
Mitigating Imaging Systematics for DESI 2024 Emission Line Galaxies and Beyond
A. J. Rosado-Marín, A. J. Ross, H. Seo +56
Emission Line Galaxies (ELGs) are one of the main tracers that the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) uses to probe the universe. However, they are afflicted by strong spu…
DESIVAST: A Catalog of Low-Redshift Voids using Data from the DESI DR1 Bright Galaxy Survey
Hernan Rincon, Segev BenZvi, Kelly Douglass +37
We present three separate void catalogs created using a volume-limited sample of the DESI Year 1 Bright Galaxy Survey. We use the algorithms VoidFinder and V2 to construct void cat…
DESI Emission Line Galaxies: Unveiling the Diversity of [OII] Profiles and its Links to Star Formation and Morphology
Ting-Wen Lan, J. Xavier Prochaska, John Moustakas +34
We study the [OII] profiles of emission line galaxies (ELGs) from the Early Data Release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). To this end, we decompose and classify…
Selection of high-redshift Lyman-Break Galaxies from broadband and wide photometric surveys
C. Payerne, W. d'Assignies Doumerg, C. Yèche +44
In this paper, we investigate the possibility of selecting high-redshift Lyman-Break Galaxies (LBG) using current and future broadband wide photometric surveys, such as UNIONS or t…
Detection of the large-scale tidal field with galaxy multiplet alignment in the DESI Y1 spectroscopic survey
Claire Lamman, Daniel Eisenstein, Jaime E. Forero-Romero +36
We explore correlations between the orientations of small galaxy groups, or "multiplets", and the large-scale gravitational tidal field. Using data from the Dark Energy Spectroscop…
Tracing the evolution of the cool gas in CGM and IGM environments through Mg II absorption from redshift z=0.75 to z=1.65 using DESI-Y1 data
X. Wu, Z. Cai, T. -W. Lan +35
We present a measurement of the mean absorption of cool gas traced by Mg II () around emission line galaxies (ELGs), spanning spatial scales from 20 kpc to 10 Mpc.…
Catalog-level blinding on the bispectrum for DESI-like galaxy surveys
S. Novell-Masot, H. Gil-Marín, L. Verde +28
We evaluate the performance of the catalog-level blind analysis technique (blinding) presented in Brieden et al. (2020) in the context of a fixed template power spectrum and bispec…
Correcting Turbulence-induced Errors in Fiber Positioning for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
E. F. Schlafly, J. Guy, K. Honscheid +37
Highly-multiplexed, robotic, fiber-fed spectroscopic surveys are observing tens of millions of stars and galaxies. For many systems, accurate positioning relies on imaging the fibe…
Cosmological constraints from the cross-correlation of DESI Luminous Red Galaxies with CMB lensing from Planck PR4 and ACT DR6
Noah Sailer, Joshua Kim, Simone Ferraro +63
We infer the growth of large scale structure over the redshift range from the cross-correlation of spectroscopically calibrated Luminous Red Galaxies (LR…
Mitigation of DESI fiber assignment incompleteness effect on two-point clustering with small angular scale truncated estimators
M. Pinon, A. de Mattia, P. McDonald +50
We present a method to mitigate the effects of fiber assignment incompleteness in two-point power spectrum and correlation function measurements from galaxy spectroscopic surveys,…
The clustering of Lyman Alpha Emitting galaxies at z=2-3
M. White, A. Raichoor, Arjun Dey +52
We measure the clustering of Lyman Alpha Emitting galaxies (LAEs) selected from the One-hundred-square-degree DECam Imaging in Narrowbands (ODIN) survey, with spectroscopic follow-…
DESI 2024: Constraints on Physics-Focused Aspects of Dark Energy using DESI DR1 BAO Data
K. Lodha, A. Shafieloo, R. Calderon +47
Baryon acoustic oscillation data from the first year of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) provide near percent-level precision of cosmic distances in seven bins over…
The MOST Hosts Survey: spectroscopic observation of the host galaxies of ~40,000 transients using DESI
Maayane T. Soumagnac, Peter Nugent, Robert A. Knop +54
We present the MOST Hosts survey (Multi-Object Spectroscopy of Transient Hosts). The survey is planned to run throughout the five years of operation of the Dark Energy Spectroscopi…
Validation of the DESI 2024 Ly forest BAO analysis using synthetic datasets
Andrei Cuceu, Hiram K. Herrera-Alcantar, Calum Gordon +56
The first year of data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) contains the largest set of Lyman- (Ly) forest spectra ever observed. This data, collected in the…
Constraints on the spacetime variation of the fine-structure constant using DESI emission-line galaxies
Linhua Jiang, Zhiwei Pan, Jessica Nicole Aguilar +38
We present strong constraints on the spacetime variation of the fine-structure constant using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). In this pilot work, we utilize $\…
Validation of the DESI 2024 Lyman Alpha Forest BAL Masking Strategy
Paul Martini, A. Cuceu, L. Ennesser +44
Broad absorption line quasars (BALs) exhibit blueshifted absorption relative to a number of their prominent broad emission features. These absorption features can contribute to qua…
DESI 2024: Reconstructing Dark Energy using Crossing Statistics with DESI DR1 BAO data
R. Calderon, K. Lodha, A. Shafieloo +52
We implement Crossing Statistics to reconstruct in a model-agnostic manner the expansion history of the universe and properties of dark energy, using DESI Data Release 1 (DR1) BAO…
Production of Alternate Realizations of DESI Fiber Assignment for Unbiased Clustering Measurement in Data and Simulations
J. Lasker, A. Carnero Rosell, A. D. Myers +52
A critical requirement of spectroscopic large scale structure analyses is correcting for selection of which galaxies to observe from an isotropic target list. This selection is oft…
Full Modeling and Parameter Compression Methods in configuration space for DESI 2024 and beyond
S. Ramirez-Solano, M. Icaza-Lizaola, H. E. Noriega +49
In the contemporary era of high-precision spectroscopic surveys, led by projects like DESI, there is an increasing demand for optimizing the extraction of cosmological information…
Optimal Reconstruction of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations for DESI 2024
E. Paillas, Z. Ding, X. Chen +73
Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) provide a robust standard ruler to measure the expansion history of the Universe through galaxy clustering. Density-field reconstruction is now a…
HOD-Dependent Systematics in Emission Line Galaxies for the DESI 2024 BAO analysis
C. Garcia-Quintero, J. Mena-Fernández, A. Rocher +73
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will provide precise measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) to constrain the expansion history of the Universe and set s…