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The Power of DESI for Photometric Redshift Calibration: A Case Study with KiDS-1000

Diana Blanco, Alexie Leauthaud, Johannes Ulf Lange +64

Accurate redshift estimates are a critical requirement for weak lensing surveys and one of the main uncertainties in constraints on dark energy and large-scale cosmic structure. In…

Clustering redshift distribution calibration of weak lensing surveys using the DESI-DR1 spectroscopic dataset

R. Ruggeri, C. Blake, J. Aguilar +63

We estimate the source redshift distribution of current weak lensing surveys by applying the clustering-based redshift calibration technique, using the galaxy redshift sample provi…

Cosmological Constraints from Full-Scale Clustering and Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing with DESI DR1

Johannes U. Lange, Alexandra Wells, Andrew Hearin +76

We present constraints on cosmic structure growth from the analysis of galaxy clustering and galaxy--galaxy lensing with galaxies from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DES…

Measurements of quasar proximity zones with the Ly $α$ forest of DESI Y1 quasars

Ryuichiro Hada, Paul Martini, David H. Weinberg +41

The intergalactic medium (IGM) around quasars is shaped by their dense environments and by their excess ionizing radiation, forming a "quasar proximity zone" whose size and anisotr…

Constraining primordial non-Gaussianity from DESI DR1 quasars and Planck PR4 CMB Lensing

Sofia Chiarenza, Alex Krolewski, Marco Bonici +54

We present the first measurement of local-type primordial non-Gaussianity from the cross-correlation between $1.2$ million spectroscopically confirmed quasars from the first data r…

Joint cosmological fits to DESI-DR1 full-shape clustering and weak gravitational lensing in configuration space

A. Semenaite, C. Blake, A. Porredon +69

We present a joint $3 \times 2$ -pt cosmological analysis of auto- and cross-correlations between the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Data Release 1 (DESI-DR1) Bright Galaxy Surv…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

DESI-DR1 $3 \times 2$ -pt analysis: consistent cosmology across weak lensing surveys

A. Porredon, C. Blake, J. U. Lange +70

We present a joint cosmological analysis of projected galaxy clustering observations from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Data Release 1 (DESI-DR1), and overlapping weak g…

The DESI Single Fiber Lens Search. I. Four Thousand Spectroscopically Selected Galaxy-Galaxy Gravitational Lens Candidates

Juliana S. M. Karp, David J. Schlegel, Xiaosheng Huang +47

We present 4,110 strong gravitational lens candidates, 3,887 of which are new discoveries, selected from a sample of 5,837,154 luminous red galaxies (LRGs) observed with the Dark E…

The DESI DR1 Peculiar Velocity Survey: global zero-point and $H_{0}$ constraints

A. Carr, C. Howlett, A. J. Amsellem +55

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) in its first Data Release (DR1) already provides more than 100,000 galaxies with relative distance measurements. The primary purpose…

The DESI DR1 peculiar velocity survey: growth rate measurements from the galaxy power spectrum

F. Qin, C. Blake, C. Howlett +63

The large-scale structure of the Universe and its evolution encapsulate a wealth of cosmological information. A powerful means of unlocking this knowledge lies in measuring the aut…

The DESI DR1 Peculiar Velocity Survey: growth rate measurements from galaxy and momentum correlation functions

R. J. Turner, C. Blake, F. Qin +61

Joint analysis of the local peculiar velocity and galaxy density fields offers a promising route to testing cosmological models of gravity. We present a measurement of the normalis…

Baryon fraction from the BAO amplitude: a consistent approach to parameterizing perturbation growth

Andrea Crespi, Will J. Percival, Alex Krolewski +51

Galaxy clustering constrains the baryon fraction Omega_b/Omega_m through the amplitude of baryon acoustic oscillations and the suppression of perturbations entering the horizon bef…

Effect of local environment on Ly $α$ line profile in DESI/ODIN LAEs

Ana Sofía M. Uzsoy, Arjun Dey, Anand Raichoor +51

Lyman-Alpha Emitters (LAEs) are star-forming galaxies with significant Ly $α$ emission and are often used as tracers of large-scale structure at high redshift. We explore the relati…

Galaxy-Multiplet Clustering from DESI DR2

Hanyue Wang, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Jessica Nicole Aguilar +44

We present an efficient estimator for higher-order galaxy clustering using small groups of nearby galaxies, or multiplets. Using the Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) sample from the Dark…

Quasars acting as Strong Lenses Found in DESI DR1

Everett McArthur, Martin Millon, Meredith Powell +52

Quasars acting as strong gravitational lenses offer a rare opportunity to probe the redshift evolution of scaling relations between supermassive black holes and their host galaxies…

A measurement of $H_{0}$ from DESI DR1 using energy densities

Alex Krolewski, Andrea Crespi, Will J. Percival +57

We present a new measurement of the Hubble constant, independent of standard rulers and robust to pre-recombination modifications such as Early Dark Energy (EDE), obtained by calib…

Full calibration of the tomographic redshift distribution from the HSC PDR3 Shape Catalog with DESI

J. Choppin de Janvry, S. Gontcho A Gontcho, U. Seljak +53

The calibration of tomographic redshift distributions is essential for cosmological analysis of weak lensing data. In this work, we calibrate all four tomographic bins of the Hyper…

A Unified Photometric Redshift Calibration for Weak Lensing Surveys using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

Johannes U. Lange, Diana Blanco, Alexie Leauthaud +61

The effective redshift distribution $n (z)$ of galaxies is a critical component in the study of weak gravitational lensing. Here, we introduce a new method for determining $n (z)$ fo…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 4 cited

$H_{0}$ Without the Sound Horizon (or Supernovae): A 2% Measurement in DESI DR1

E. A. Zaborowski, P. Taylor, K. Honscheid +58

The sound horizon scale $r_{s}$ is a key source of information for early-time $H_{0}$ measurements, and is therefore a common target of new physics proposed to solve the Hubble tension…

Validation of the DESI-DR1 3x2-pt analysis: scale cut and shear ratio tests

N. Emas, A. Porredon, C. Blake +54

Combined survey analyses of galaxy clustering and weak gravitational lensing (3x2-pt studies) will allow new and accurate tests of the standard cosmological model. However, careful…

A New Way to Discover Strong Gravitational Lenses: Pair-wise Spectroscopic Search from DESI DR1

Yuan-Ming Hsu, Xiaosheng Huang, Christopher J. Storfer +47

We present a new method to search for strong gravitational lensing systems by pairing spectra that are close together on the sky in a spectroscopic survey. We visually inspect 26,6…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

DESI DR1 Ly $α$ forest: 3D full-shape analysis and cosmological constraints

Andrei Cuceu, Hiram K. Herrera-Alcantar, Calum Gordon +75

We perform an analysis of the full shapes of Lyman- $α$ (Ly $α$ ) forest correlation functions measured from the first data release (DR1) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (…

Clustering analysis of medium-band selected high-redshift galaxies

H. Ebina, M. White, A. Raichoor +57

Next-generation large-scale structure spectroscopic surveys will probe cosmology at high redshifts $(2.3 < z < 3.5)$ , relying on abundant galaxy tracers such as Ly $α$ emitters (LAE…