5 papers
Preliminary Target Selection for the DESI Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) Sample
Rongpu Zhou, Jeffrey A. Newman, Kyle S. Dawson +23
The DESI survey will observe more than 8 million candidate luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the redshift range . Here we present a preliminary version of the DESI LRG tar…
Preliminary Target Selection for the DESI Emission Line Galaxy (ELG) Sample
Anand Raichoor, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Tanveer Karim +26
DESI will precisely constrain cosmic expansion and the growth of structure by collecting 35 million redshifts across 80% of cosmic history and one third of the sky to s…
Preliminary Target Selection for the DESI Quasar (QSO) Sample
Christophe Yèche, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Charles-Antoine Claveau +24
The DESI survey will measure large-scale structure using quasars as direct tracers of dark matter in the redshift range and using quasar Ly- forests at . We p…
SN 2010kd: Photometric and Spectroscopic Analysis of a Slow-Decaying Superluminous Supernova
Amit Kumar, Shashi Bhushan Pandey, Reka Konyves-Toth +21
This paper presents data and analysis of SN 2010kd, a low-redshift () H-deficient superluminous supernova (SLSN), based on ultraviolet/optical photometry and optical spe…
Overview of the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys
Arjun Dey, David J. Schlegel, Dustin Lang +157
The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys are a combination of three public projects (the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey, the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey, and the Mayall z-band Legacy Surve…