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

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38 papers

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.GA2026

JWST reveals how black holes are fed: kiloparsec-scale multiphase filaments feed sub-kiloparsec circumnuclear disks

Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo, Hyunseop Choi, Minghao Guo +35

The Centaurus cluster is one of the most important archetypes of radio-mode AGN feedback, with its central galaxy, NGC 4696, launching powerful jets that inflate X-ray cavities and…

astro-ph.GA2026

ODIN: Confirmation and 3D Reconstruction of Six Massive Protoclusters at Cosmic Noon

Ashley Ortiz, Vandana Ramakrishnan, Kyoung-Soo Lee +64

Protoclusters represent sites of accelerated galaxy formation and extreme astrophysical activity characteristic of dense environments. Identifying massive protoclusters and mapping…

astro-ph.GA2026

Initial Investigations of the Outskirts of XLSSC 122

Eleanore. B. Todd, Jon. P. Willis, Rebecca. E. A. Canning +7

We investigate the redshift 1.98 galaxy cluster XLSSC 122 using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) from the core of the cluster out to 3 Mpc, a scale equivalent to 10 times the R500…

astro-ph.GA2024

Tripling the Census of Dwarf AGN Candidates Using DESI Early Data

Ragadeepika Pucha, S. Juneau, Arjun Dey +46

Using early data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey, we search for AGN signatures in 410,757 line-emitting galaxies. By employing the BPT emission-line rat…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

Identifying Quasars from the DESI Bright Galaxy Survey

S. Juneau, R. Canning, D. M. Alexander +56

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) cosmology survey includes a Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS) which will yield spectra for over ten million bright galaxies (r<20.2 AB mag)…

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.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★ 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.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.GA2023

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…

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.CO2023★ 343 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 6 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 26 cited

Detecting and Characterizing Mg II absorption in DESI Survey Validation Quasar Spectra

Lucas Napolitano, Agnesh Pandey, Adam D. Myers +33

We present findings of the detection of Magnesium II (Mg II, λ = 2796, 2803 Å) absorbers from the early data release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). DESI is pro…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 9 cited

Galaxy populations in the most distant SPT-SZ clusters -- II. Galaxy structural properties in massive clusters at 1.4<z<1.7

V. Strazzullo, M. Pannella, J. J. Mohr +12

We investigate structural properties of massive galaxy populations in the central regions of five very massive galaxy clusters at z~1.4-1.7 from the South Pole Telescope Sunyaev Ze…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 10 cited

Chandra measurements of gas homogeneity and turbulence at intermediate radii in the Perseus Cluster

Martijn de Vries, Adam B. Mantz, Steven W. Allen +6

We present a Chandra study of surface brightness fluctuations in the diffuse intracluster medium of the Perseus Cluster. Our study utilizes deep, archival imaging of the cluster co…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 91 cited

The DESI Survey Validation: Results from Visual Inspection of the Quasar Survey Spectra

David M. Alexander, Tamara M. Davis, E. Chaussidon +69

A key component of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey validation (SV) is a detailed visual inspection (VI) of the optical spectroscopic data to quantify key sur…

astro-ph.CO2022

The DESI Survey Validation: Results from Visual Inspection of Bright Galaxies, Luminous Red Galaxies, and Emission Line Galaxies

Ting-Wen Lan, R. Tojeiro, E. Armengaud +79

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Survey has obtained a set of spectroscopic measurements of galaxies to validate the final survey design and target selections. To as…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 8 cited

The XXL survey. XLIX. Linking the members star formation histories to the cluster mass assembly in the z=1.98 galaxy cluster XLSSC 122

A. Trudeau, J. P. Willis, D. Rennehan +5

The most massive protoclusters virialize to become clusters at , which is also a critical epoch for the evolution of their member galaxies. XLSSC 122 is a galaxy…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 465 cited

Overview of the Instrumentation for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

B. Abareshi, J. Aguilar, S. Ahlen +264

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has embarked on an ambitious five-year survey to explore the nature of dark energy with spectroscopy of 40 million galaxies and quas…

astro-ph.HE2022

The structure of cluster merger shocks: turbulent width and the electron heating timescale

H. R. Russell, P. E. J. Nulsen, D. Caprioli +10

We present a new 2 Ms Chandra observation of the cluster merger Abell 2146, which hosts two huge M~2 shock fronts each ~500 kpc across. For the first time, we resolve and measure t…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 21 cited

The velocity structure of the Intracluster Medium of the Centaurus cluster

E. Gatuzz, J. S. Sanders, R. Canning +7

There are few direct measurements of ICM velocity structure, despite its importance for understanding clusters. We present a detailed analysis of the velocity structure of the Cent…