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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★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 2 cited

ForestFlow: predicting the Lyman- forest clustering from linear to nonlinear scales

J. Chaves-Montero, L. Cabayol-Garcia, M. Lokken +31

On large scales, the Lyman- forest provides insights into the expansion history of the Universe, while on small scales, it imposes strict constraints on the growth history, the…

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.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.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

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

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…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 28 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 20 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 263 cited

DESI 2024 III: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from Galaxies and Quasars

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +193

We present the DESI 2024 galaxy and quasar baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) measurements using over 5.7 million unique galaxy and quasar redshifts in the range 0.1<z<2.1. Divided…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 17 cited

Validating the Galaxy and Quasar Catalog-Level Blinding Scheme for the DESI 2024 analysis

U. Andrade, J. Mena-Fernández, H. Awan +60

In the era of precision cosmology, ensuring the integrity of data analysis through blinding techniques is paramount -- a challenge particularly relevant for the Dark Energy Spectro…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

Comparing Compressed and Full-modeling Analyses with FOLPS: Implications for DESI 2024 and beyond

H. E. Noriega, A. Aviles, H. Gil-Marín +51

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will provide unprecedented information about the large-scale structure of our Universe. In this work, we study the robustness of the…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 11 cited

High redshift LBGs from deep broadband imaging for future spectroscopic surveys

Vanina Ruhlmann-Kleider, Christophe Yèche, Christophe Magneville +60

Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) are promising probes for clustering measurements at high redshift, , a region only covered so far by Lyman- forest measurements. In this paper,…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 6 cited

Emission Line Predictions for Mock Galaxy Catalogues: a New Differentiable and Empirical Mapping from DESI

Ashod Khederlarian, Jeffrey A. Newman, Brett H. Andrews +43

We present a simple, differentiable method for predicting emission line strengths from rest-frame optical continua using an empirically-determined mapping. Extensive work has been…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 16 cited

HOD-Dependent Systematics for Luminous Red Galaxies in the DESI 2024 BAO Analysis

J. Mena-Fernández, C. Garcia-Quintero, S. Yuan +72

In this paper, we present the estimation of systematics related to the halo occupation distribution (HOD) modeling in the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) distance measurement of…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 29 cited

Semi-analytical covariance matrices for two-point correlation function for DESI 2024 data

M. Rashkovetskyi, D. Forero-Sánchez, A. de Mattia +57

We present an optimized way of producing the fast semi-analytical covariance matrices for the Legendre moments of the two-point correlation function, taking into account survey geo…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

Characterization of contaminants in the Lyman-alpha forest auto-correlation with DESI

J. Guy, S. Gontcho A Gontcho, E. Armengaud +61

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations can be measured with sub-percent precision above redshift two with the Lyman-alpha forest auto-correlation and its cross-correlation with quasar positi…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1.1k cited

DESI 2024 VI: Cosmological Constraints from the Measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +200

We present cosmological results from the measurement of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in galaxy, quasar and Lyman- forest tracers from the first year of observations from t…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 254 cited

DESI 2024 IV: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from the Lyman Alpha Forest

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +196

We present the measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) from the Lyman- (Ly) forest of high-redshift quasars with the first-year dataset of the Dark Energy Spectrosc…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 2 cited

Constraining primordial non-Gaussianity from the large scale structure two-point and three-point correlation functions

Z. Brown, R. Demina, A. G. Adame +47

Surveys of cosmological large-scale structure (LSS) are sensitive to the presence of local primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG), and may be used to constrain models of inflation. Local…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 16 cited

Synthetic spectra for Lyman- forest analysis in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

Hiram K. Herrera-Alcantar, Andrea Muñoz-Gutiérrez, Ting Tan +51

Synthetic data sets are used in cosmology to test analysis procedures, to verify that systematic errors are well understood and to demonstrate that measurements are unbiased. In th…