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Self Calibrated Galaxy Groups from the DESI DR1 Bright Galaxy Survey

I. Williams, J. Tinker, K. Wang +45

We present a galaxy group catalog built from Data Release 1 of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Bright Galaxy Survey, using the Self Calibrated Group Finder. The alg…

astro-ph.CO2026

Probing Baryons with the Kinematic Sunyae Zel'dovich Effect and Machine Learning Derived Peculiar Velocities using DESI DR2 and ACT DR6

Yulin Gong, Rachel Bean, Patricio A. Gallardo +54

We present novel empirical constraints on average optical depths and gas density profiles from combining kinematic Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect (kSZ) measurements and nonlinear peculi…

astro-ph.GA2026

Radio Quasars in the Cosmic Dawn: A Spectroscopic Sample from the DESI Survey

Anniek J. Gloudemans, Jinyi Yang, David M. Alexander +55

We present the largest statistical spectroscopic sample of radio quasars at 4.7<z<6.7 to date. These have been selected from a dedicated Dark Energy Survey Instrument (DESI) target…

astro-ph.CO2026

Model-Independent Measurement of Baryon Gas Fractions through Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing and the Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect

R. Henry Liu, Uroš Seljak, Simone Ferraro +52

Baryon feedback is a leading source of systematic uncertainty for cosmology from weak lensing, but measurements of the gas distribution around galaxies have largely relied on param…

astro-ph.CO2026

Optical Depths from the Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect with ACT DR6 and DESI DR1 Spectroscopic Galaxies and Optically-Selected Clusters

J. E. Moore, C. Popik, Y. Gong +66

We present stacked thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect measurements for three samples of galaxy groups and clusters: those traced by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Da…

astro-ph.GA2026

Extending the Stellar-to-Halo Mass Relation to Dwarf Galaxies with DESI DR1

Z. Shao, Y. Zu, A. Salcedo +51

Constraining the dark matter halos of the smallest galaxies offers fundamental insights into the nature of dark matter and stellar feedback. Using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Ins…

astro-ph.GA2026

Linking neutral gas inflows and outflows to offsets in the star-forming main sequence and mass-metallicity relation

S. Weng, M. Pieri, A. Saintonge +40

Gas inflows and outflows regulate galaxy growth, but direct observational links between measured gas flows and galaxy scaling relations remain limited. Using ~6,000 star-forming ga…

astro-ph.GA2026

Spatially-Resolved Spectra of Diffuse Galactic Light using 10.8 M DESI Sky Fibers

Andrew K. Saydjari, Bruce T. Draine, Timothy D. Brandt +49

Using 10.8 million ``blank'' sky spectra from the DESI Year 3 dataset, we measure the diffuse galactic light (DGL) spectrum in the optical at spectral resolution by c…

astro-ph.CO2026

A Unified Tracer Analysis of DESI DR2 Baryon Acoustic Oscillations

N. Sanders, H. Seo, M. Rashkovetskyi +65

We improve upon previous efforts to optimally combine overlapping galaxy samples in the DESI baryon acoustic oscillation analysis. By weighting each galaxy by its linear bias, over…

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Systematic uncertainties on DESI Tully-Fisher distances constrained with Integral Field Spectroscopy

Utsav Siwakoti, Lluis Galbany, Kelly A. Douglass +40

The Tully--Fisher (TF) relation is an empirical tool for estimating distances to spiral galaxies. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Peculiar Velocity (PV) Survey uses…

astro-ph.GA2026

Improved constraints on the Milky Way potential using the M68 stream and DESI spectroscopic data

Carles G. Palau, Wenting Wang, Jiaxin Han +41

We present a selection of stars belonging to the stellar stream of the M68 (NGC 4590) globular cluster, also known as Fjörm. This star selection is an improvement on previous ones…

astro-ph.CO2026

Lyman Break Galaxy selection and redshift measurement with supervised contrastive learning

J. Choppin de Janvry, C. Yèche, Arjun Dey +55

Some of the next steps for high-precision cosmology lie within the high-redshift, high-density universe. Spectroscopic survey experiments such as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Inst…

astro-ph.GA2026

Luminosity function of quasars at from SDSS and DESI

Gaocheng Yin, Linhua Jiang, Zhiwei Pan +54

We present a study of the evolution of type 1 quasars at , covering the peak epoch of quasar activity. The quasar evolution has been extensively explored by a variety of…

astro-ph.CO2026

Validation of the DESI DR2 Ly forest full-shape analysis

M. Herbold, A. Cuceu, P. Martini +100

We present the validation of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 2 (DR2) Lyman- (Ly) forest full-shape analysis. This analysis combines three-dimensi…

astro-ph.CO2026

DESI DR2 Results IV: Alcock-Paczyński Measurements from the Lyman Alpha Forest and Cosmological Constraints

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +152

We present Alcock-Paczyński (AP) measurements from the full shape of Lyman- (Ly) forest correlation functions measured from the second data release (DR2) of the Dark Energy S…

astro-ph.CO2026

CoLoRe-2LPT: Lyman- mock catalogues for the validation of DESI cosmological analyses

M. F. Ruiz-Herrera Bernal, S. Avila, A. Font-Ribera +90

The Lyman- (Ly) forest has become a crucial probe for studying the large-scale structure of the universe at high redshift (), providing powerful constraints on Baryon…

astro-ph.CO2026

Lyman- forest holography: 3D predictions from 1D measurements

J. Chaves-Montero, A. Font-Ribera, J. Aguilar +68

Cosmological analyses of Lyman- forest clustering rely on either one-dimensional correlations along individual sightlines or three-dimensional correlations between different sig…

astro-ph.GA2026

Cosmic Pairs: A DESI Census of Dual and Offset AGN as Precursors to Massive Black Hole Binaries

Ekaterine Dadiani, Antonella Palmese, Yihao Zhou +52

We present a systematic census of dual and offset active galactic nuclei (AGN) using spectroscopic data from the first data release (DR1) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrumen…

astro-ph.SR2026

1000 cataclysmic variables identified from DESI spectroscopy

K. Inight, B. T. Gänsicke, A. Aungwerojwit +41

Most cataclysmic variables (CVs) are discovered when they have an outburst generating an inherent selection bias against CVs that rarely, or never, outburst. CVs discovered by virt…

astro-ph.GA2026

Stacked Reverberation Mapping of High Redshift Quasars in DESI. I. Feasibility Analysis

Rahma Alfarsy, R. E. A. Canning, Eva-Maria Mueller +49

The broad line region of quasars has long been probed by reverberation mapping techniques that measure time lags between continuum and broad emission line variations. Stacked rever…

astro-ph.CO2026

Probing the matter-dominated expansion with multi-redshift Lyman- BAO from DESI DR2

Hiram K. Herrera-Alcantar, Julien Guy, Alma X. Gonzalez-Morales +60

We present a multi-redshift Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) analysis of the DESI Data Release 2 (DR2) Lyman- (Ly) forest, splitting the forest auto-correlation and its cro…

astro-ph.EP2026

First planetesimals from DESI DR1: 12 highly metal-rich white dwarfs

Paula Izquierdo, Andrew Swan, Boris T. Gänsicke +43

Metal-enriched white dwarfs provide a unique insight into the composition of exoplanet interiors. These stars accrete the debris of disrupted planetary bodies, and hence, measuring…

astro-ph.CO2026

Alleviating prior dependencies for DESI DR1 clustering fits through reparameterization

Marco Bonici, Simone Paradiso, Glenn McGee +48

Bayesian analyses of the full-shape clustering of Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 1 (DR1) exhibit prior-volume projection effects, whereby weakly constrain…

astro-ph.CO2026

Alcock-Paczynski Blinding Scheme for the Ly- Forest Analysis

G. Perez-Sanchez, S. F. Beltran, G. Niz +45

We present and validate a blinding method for the Lyman- (Ly) forest analysis based on a modification of the Alcock-Paczynski test. In order to hide the background expansion…