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20162025
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astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

Studying baryon acoustic oscillations using photometric redshifts from the DESI Legacy Imaging survey DR9

Christoph Saulder, Yong-Seon Song, Minji Oh +41

Context.The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Survey DR9 (DR9 hereafter), with its extensive dataset of galaxy locations and photometric redshifts, present…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 10 cited

Constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity from the cross-correlation of DESI Luminous Red Galaxies and CMB lensing

J. R. Bermejo-Climent, R. Demina, A. Krolewski +47

We use the angular cross-correlation between a luminous red galaxy (LRG) sample from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Survey data release DR9 and the …

astro-ph.CO2024★ 187 cited

DESI 2024 VII: Cosmological Constraints from the Full-Shape Modeling of Clustering Measurements

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +210

We present cosmological results from the measurement of clustering of galaxy, quasar and Lyman- forest tracers from the first year of observations with the Dark Energy Spectrosc…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 81 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2024

The first identification of Lyman Changing-look Quasars at high-redshift in DESI

Wei-Jian Guo, Zhiwei Pan, Małgorzata Siudek +38

We present two cases of Ly changing-look (CL) quasars (J1306 and J1512) along with two additional candidates (J1511 and J1602), all discovered serendipitously at through…

astro-ph.CO2024

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…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 73 cited

DESI 2024 V: Full-Shape Galaxy Clustering from Galaxies and Quasars

A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar, S. Ahlen +195

We present the measurements and cosmological implications of the galaxy two-point clustering using over 4.7 million unique galaxy and quasar redshifts in the range divi…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

The atomic gas sequence and mass-metallicity relation from dwarfs to massive galaxies

D. Scholte, A. Saintonge, J. Moustakas +43

Galaxy scaling relations provide insights into the processes that drive galaxy evolution. The extension of these scaling relations into the dwarf galaxy regime is of particular int…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 19 cited

Measuring using DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys Emission-Line Galaxies and Planck CMB Lensing and the Impact of Dust on Parameter Inference

Tanveer Karim, Sukhdeep Singh, Mehdi Rezaie +39

Measuring the growth of structure is a powerful probe for studying the dark sector, especially in light of the tension between primary CMB anisotropy and low-redshift surveys…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 31 cited

DESI Early Data Release Milky Way Survey Value-Added Catalogue

Sergey E. Koposov, C. Allende-Prieto, A. P. Cooper +40

We present the stellar value-added catalogue based on the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Early Data Release. The catalogue contains radial velocity and stellar paramet…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 17 cited

GD-1 Stellar Stream and Cocoon in the DESI Early Data Release

Monica Valluri, Parker Fagrelius, Sergey. E. Koposov +49

We present 115 new spectroscopically identified members of the GD-1 tidal stream observed with the 5000-fiber Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). We confirm the existence…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 5 cited

AuriDESI: Mock Catalogues for the DESI Milky Way Survey

Namitha Kizhuprakkat, Andrew P. Cooper, Alexander H. Riley +31

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Milky Way Survey (DESI MWS) will explore the assembly history of the Milky Way by characterising remnants of ancient dwarf galaxy accretion…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

STag II: Classification of Serendipitous Supernovae Observed by Galaxy Redshift Surveys

W. Davison, D. Parkinson, S. BenZvi +32

With the number of supernovae observed expected to drastically increase thanks to large-scale surveys like the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), it is necessary that the…

astro-ph.CO2024

CMB lensing and Lyα forest cross bispectrum from DESI's first-year quasar sample

N. G. Karaçaylı, P. Martini, D. H. Weinberg +50

The squeezed cross-bispectrum \bispeconed\ between the gravitational lensing in the Cosmic Microwave Background and the 1D \lya\ forest power spectrum can constrain bias parameters…

astro-ph.GA2024

Probing the impact of radio-mode feedback on the properties of the cool circumgalactic medium

Yu-Ling Chang, Ting-Wen Lan, J. Xavier Prochaska +33

We explore the influence of radio-mode feedback on the properties of the cool circumgalactic medium (CGM). To this end, we assemble a statistical sample of approximately 30,000 rad…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2024

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 $\…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 29 cited

Archetype-Based Redshift Estimation for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Survey

Abhijeet Anand, Julien Guy, Stephen Bailey +46

We present a computationally efficient galaxy archetype-based redshift estimation and spectral classification method for the Dark Energy Survey Instrument (DESI) survey. The DESI s…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 2 cited

Candidate strongly lensed type Ia supernovae in the Zwicky Transient Facility archive

A. Townsend, J. Nordin, A. Sagués Carracedo +61

Gravitationally lensed type Ia supernovae (glSNe Ia) are unique astronomical tools that can be used to study cosmological parameters, distributions of dark matter, the astrophysics…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 17 cited

ELG Spectroscopic Systematics Analysis of the DESI Data Release 1

Jiaxi Yu, Ashley J. Ross, Antoine Rocher +58

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) uses more than 2.4 million Emission Line Galaxies (ELGs) for 3D large-scale structure (LSS) analyses in its Data Release 1 (DR1). Such l…

astro-ph.CO2024

The Construction of Large-scale Structure Catalogs for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

A. J. Ross, J. Aguilar, S. Ahlen +83

We present the technical details on how large-scale structure (LSS) catalogs are constructed from redshifts measured from spectra observed by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrume…

astro-ph.CO2024

Forward modeling fluctuations in the DESI LRGs target sample using image simulations

Hui Kong, Ashley J. Ross, Klaus Honscheid +50

We use the forward modeling pipeline, Obiwan, to study the imaging systematics of the Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) targeted by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). We u…

astro-ph.CO2024

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…