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astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

Measuring the conditional luminosity and stellar mass functions of galaxies by combining the DESI LS DR9, SV3 and Y1 data

Yirong Wang, Xiaohu Yang, Yizhou Gu +42

In this investigation, we leverage the combination of Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Legacy imaging Surveys Data Release 9 (DESI LS DR9), Survey Validation 3 (SV3), and Year…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 17 cited

Generating mock galaxy catalogues for flux-limited samples like the DESI Bright Galaxy Survey

A. Smith, C. Grove, S. Cole +28

Accurate mock galaxy catalogues are crucial to validate analysis pipelines used to constrain dark energy models. We present a fast HOD-fitting method which we apply to the AbacusSu…

astro-ph.CO2023

Modeling the BAO feature in Bispectrum

Jayashree Behera, Mehdi Rezaie, Lado Samushia +1

We investigate how well a simple leading order perturbation theory model of the bispectrum can fit the BAO feature in the measured bispectrum monopole of galaxies. Previous works s…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

A Large Sample of Extremely Metal-poor Galaxies at Identified from the DESI Early Data

Hu Zou, Jipeng Sui, Amélie Saintonge +32

Extremely metal-poor galaxies (XMPGs) at relatively low redshift are excellent laboratories for studying galaxy formation and evolution in the early universe. Much effort has been…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 10 cited

A Spectroscopic Search for Optical Emission Lines from Dark Matter Decay

Hanyue Wang, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Jessica Nicole Aguilar +19

We search for narrow-line optical emission from dark matter decay by stacking dark-sky spectra from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) at the redshift of nearby galaxi…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 5 cited

Unraveling emission line galaxy conformity at z~1 with DESI early data

Sihan Yuan, Risa H. Wechsler, Yunchong Wang +32

Emission line galaxies (ELGs) are now the preeminent tracers of large-scale structure at z>0.8 due to their high density and strong emission lines, which enable accurate redshift m…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 1 cited

Mock data sets for the Eboss and DESI Lyman- forest surveys

Thomas Etourneau, Jean-Marc Le Goff, James Rich +32

We present a publicly-available code to generate sets of mock Lyman- (\lya) forest data that have realistic large-scale correlations including those due to the Baryonic Acoustic…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 2 cited

The DESI One-Percent Survey: Evidence for Assembly Bias from Low-Redshift Counts-in-Cylinders Measurements

Alan N. Pearl, Andrew R. Zentner, Jeffrey A. Newman +28

We explore the galaxy-halo connection information that is available in low-redshift samples from the early data release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). We model…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 11 cited

DESI Complete Calibration of the Color-Redshift Relation (DC3R2): Results from early DESI data

J. McCullough, D. Gruen, A. Amon +46

We present initial results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Complete Calibration of the Color-Redshift Relation (DC3R2) secondary target survey. Our analysis us…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 58 cited

DESI luminous red galaxy samples for cross-correlations

Rongpu Zhou, Simone Ferraro, Martin White +36

We present two galaxy samples, selected from DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys (LS) DR9, with approximately 20,000 square degrees of coverage and spectroscopic redshift distributions des…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

The DESI One-Percent Survey: A concise model for galactic conformity of ELGs

Hongyu Gao, Y. P. Jing, Kun Xu +27

Galactic conformity is the phenomenon in which a galaxy of a certain physical property is correlated with its neighbors of the same property, implying a possible causal relationshi…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 6 cited

Broad Absorption Line Quasars in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Early Data Release

S. Filbert, P. Martini, K. Seebaluck +41

Broad absorption line (BAL) quasars are characterized by gas clouds that absorb flux at the wavelength of common quasar spectral features, although blueshifted by velocities that c…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 2 cited

3D Correlations in the Lyman- Forest from Early DESI Data

Calum Gordon, Andrei Cuceu, Jonás Chaves-Montero +56

We present the first measurements of Lyman- (Ly) forest correlations using early data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). We measure the auto-correlation of…

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★ 5 cited

DESI Mock Challenge: Constructing DESI galaxy catalogues based on FastPM simulations

Andrei Variu, Shadab Alam, Cheng Zhao +30

Together with larger spectroscopic surveys such as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), the precision of large scale structure studies and thus the constraints on the c…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

Changing-look Active Galactic Nuclei from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. I.Sample from the Early Data

Wei-Jian Guo, Hu Zou, Victoria Anne Fawcett +34

Changing-look Active Galactic Nuclei (CL AGN) can be generally confirmed by the emergence (turn-on) or disappearance (turn-off) of broad emission lines, associated with a transient…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 5 cited

Astrometric Calibration and Performance of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Focal Plane

S. Kent, E. Neilsen, K. Honscheid +46

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, consisting of 5020 robotic fiber positioners and associated systems on the Mayall telescope at Kitt Peak, Arizona, is carrying out a surve…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 22 cited

Long-term follow-up observations of extreme coronal line emitting galaxies

Peter Clark, Or Graur, Joseph Callow +40

We present new spectroscopic and photometric follow-up observations of the known sample of extreme coronal line emitting galaxies (ECLEs) identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 32 cited

Local primordial non-Gaussianity from the large-scale clustering of photometric DESI luminous red galaxies

Mehdi Rezaie, Ashley J. Ross, Hee-Jong Seo +46

We use angular clustering of luminous red galaxies from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) imaging surveys to constrain the local primordial non-Gaussianity parameter…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 2 cited

NANCY: Next-generation All-sky Near-infrared Community surveY

Jiwon Jesse Han, Arjun Dey, Adrian M. Price-Whelan +206

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is capable of delivering an unprecedented all-sky, high-spatial resolution, multi-epoch infrared map to the astronomical community. This oppor…

astro-ph.SR2023

GTC Follow-up Observations of Very Metal-Poor Star Candidates from DESI

Carlos Allende Prieto, David S. Aguado, Jonay I. González Hernández +48

The observations from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will significantly increase the numbers of known extremely metal-poor stars by a factor of ~ 10, improving the…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 10 cited

The DESI One-Percent Survey: Modelling the clustering and halo occupation of all four DESI tracers with Uchuu

F. Prada, J. Ereza, A. Smith +44

We present results from a set of mock lightcones for the DESI One-Percent Survey, created from the Uchuu simulation. This This 8 (Gpc/h)^3 N-body simulation comprises 2.1 trillion…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 5 cited

On the impact of the galaxy window function on cosmological parameter estimation

Tanveer Karim, Mehdi Rezaie, Sukhdeep Singh +1

One important source of systematics in galaxy redshift surveys comes from the estimation of the galaxy window function. Up until now, the impact of the uncertainty in estimating th…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 34 cited

Constraining primordial non-Gaussianity from DESI quasar targets and Planck CMB lensing

Alex Krolewski, Will J. Percival, Simone Ferraro +33

We detect the cross-correlation between 2.7 million DESI quasar targets across 14,700 deg (180 quasars deg) and Planck 2018 CMB lensing at 30. We use the cross-…