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

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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.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.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.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.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.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.GA2022★ 13 cited

The Evolution of AGN Activity in Brightest Cluster Galaxies

T. Somboonpanyakul, M. McDonald, A. Noble +73

We present the results of an analysis of Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) observations on the full 2500 deg^2 South Pole Telescope (SPT)-SZ cluster sample. We describe a…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 24 cited

The DESI PRObabilistic Value-Added Bright Galaxy Survey (PROVABGS) Mock Challenge

ChangHoon Hahn, K. J. Kwon, Rita Tojeiro +16

The PRObabilistic Value-Added Bright Galaxy Survey (PROVABGS) catalog will provide measurements of galaxy properties, such as stellar mass (), star formation rate (…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 22 cited

Quiescent galaxies in a virialized cluster at redshift 2: Evidence for accelerated size-growth

E. Noordeh, R. E. A. Canning, J. P. Willis +4

We present an analysis of the galaxy population in XLSSC 122, an X-ray selected, virialized cluster at redshift . We utilize HST WFC3 photometry to characterize the activit…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 27 cited

Rapid build-up of the stellar content in the protocluster core SPT234956 at

Ryley Hill, Scott Chapman, Kedar A. Phadke +22

The protocluster SPT234956 at contains one of the most actively star-forming cores known, yet constraints on the total stellar mass of this system are highly uncer…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 14 cited

The environmental dependence of X-ray AGN activity at

E. Noordeh, R. E. A. Canning, A. King +9

We present an analysis of the X-ray Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) population in a sample of seven massive galaxy clusters in the redshift range . We utilize high-quali…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 50 cited

Spectroscopic confirmation of a mature galaxy cluster at redshift two

J. P. Willis, R. E. A. Canning, E. S. Noordeh +6

Galaxy clusters are the most massive virialized structures in the Universe and are formed through the gravitational accretion of matter over cosmic time. The discovery of an evolve…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 22 cited

Galaxy populations in the most distant SPT-SZ clusters - I. Environmental quenching in massive clusters at

V. Strazzullo, M. Pannella, J. J. Mohr +25

We present first results from a galaxy population study in the highest redshift galaxy clusters identified in the 2500 deg South Pole Telescope Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect (SPT-S…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 25 cited

Spectroscopic Confirmation of Five Galaxy Clusters at z > 1.25 in the 2500 sq. deg. SPT-SZ Survey

G. Khullar, L. E. Bleem, M. B. Bayliss +29

We present spectroscopic confirmation of five galaxy clusters at , discovered in the deg South Pole Telescope Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SPT-SZ) surv…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 110 cited

A very deep Chandra view of metals, sloshing and feedback in the Centaurus cluster of galaxies

J. S. Sanders, A. C. Fabian, G. B. Taylor +6

We examine deep Chandra X-ray observations of the Centaurus cluster of galaxies, Abell 3526. Applying a gradient magnitude filter reveals a wealth of structure, from filamentary so…