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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…
A dark siren measurement of the Hubble constant with the LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave event GW190412 and DESI galaxies
W. Ballard, A. Palmese, I. Magaña Hernandez +24
We present a measurement of the Hubble Constant using the gravitational wave event GW190412, an asymmetric binary black hole merger detected by LIGO/Virgo, as a dark standard…
The Future of Astronomical Data Infrastructure: Meeting Report
Michael R. Blanton, Janet D. Evans, Dara Norman +69
The astronomical community is grappling with the increasing volume and complexity of data produced by modern telescopes, due to difficulties in reducing, accessing, analyzing, and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A striking relationship between dust extinction and radio detection in DESI QSOs: evidence for a dusty blow-out phase in red QSOs
V. A. Fawcett, D. M. Alexander, A. Brodzeller +39
We present the first eight months of data from our secondary target program within the ongoing Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey. Our program uses a mid-infrared a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
PROVABGS: The Probabilistic Stellar Mass Function of the BGS One-Percent Survey
ChangHoon Hahn, Jessica Nicole Aguilar, Shadab Alam +33
We present the probabilistic stellar mass function (pSMF) of galaxies in the DESI Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS), observed during the One-Percent Survey. The One-Percent Survey was one…
The Optical Corrector for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
Timothy N. Miller, Peter Doel, Gaston Gutierrez +44
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is currently measuring the spectra of 40\,million galaxies and quasars, the largest such survey ever made to probe the nature of cos…
Optimal 1D Ly Forest Power Spectrum Estimation -- III. DESI early data
Naim Göksel Karaçaylı, Paul Martini, Julien Guy +59
The one-dimensional power spectrum of the Ly forest provides important information about cosmological and astrophysical parameters, including constraints on wa…
The DESI One-Percent Survey: Exploring A Generalized SHAM for Multiple Tracers with the UNIT Simulation
Jiaxi Yu, Cheng Zhao, Violeta Gonzalez-Perez +40
We perform SubHalo Abundance Matching (SHAM) studies on UNIT simulations with \{\}-SHAM and \{\}-SHAM. They are designe…
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument: One-dimensional power spectrum from first Lyman- forest samples with Fast Fourier Transform
Corentin Ravoux, Marie Lynn Abdul-Karim, Eric Armengaud +63
We present the one-dimensional Lyman- forest power spectrum measurement using the first data provided by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). The data sample compris…
Survey Operations for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
E. F. Schlafly, D. Kirkby, D. J. Schlegel +47
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey is a spectroscopic survey of tens of millions of galaxies at covering 14,000 square degrees of the sky. In its…
The Early Data Release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +266
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) completed its five-month Survey Validation in May 2021. Spectra of stellar and extragalactic targets from Survey Validation constitu…
Validation of the Scientific Program for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +261
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) was designed to conduct a survey covering 14,000 deg over five years to constrain the cosmic expansion history through precise m…
Synthetic light cone catalogues of modern redshift and weak lensing surveys with AbacusSummit
Boryana Hadzhiyska, Sihan Yuan, Chris Blake +32
The joint analysis of different cosmological probes, such as galaxy clustering and weak lensing, can potentially yield invaluable insights into the nature of the primordial Univers…
Performance of the Quasar Spectral Templates for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
Allyson Brodzeller, Kyle Dawson, Stephen Bailey +44
Millions of quasar spectra will be collected by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), leading to a four-fold increase in the number of known quasars. High accuracy quasa…
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-…
First Detection of the BAO Signal from Early DESI Data
Jeongin Moon, David Valcin, Michael Rashkovetskyi +65
We present the first detection of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) signal obtained using unblinded data collected during the initial two months of operations of the Stage-IV…