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most citedEight New Milky Way Companions Discovered in First-Year Dark Energy Survey Data

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astro-ph.CO2026

A census of Dark Energy Survey Year 3 redMaPPer galaxy clusters in a high exposure eROSITA All Sky Survey region

P. A. Giles, A. K. Romer, J. Pilling +64

We present the cross-match of galaxy clusters detected by redMaPPer using the first three years of Dark Energy Survey (DESY3RM) operations, and the first release of the eROSITA-All…

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.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

Intrinsic Tidal Shear at the Largest Scales: Galaxy Multiplet Alignment in DESI DR2

C. Lamman, J. Aguilar, S. Ahlen +45

We measure the intrinsic alignment (IA) of galaxy multiplets with the large-scale tidal field traced by galaxy positions in DESI Data Release 2. Using the BGS, LRG, and ELG samples…

astro-ph.CO2026

FOSSIL: A future mission for CMB spectral distortion measurements

N. Aghanim, B. Maffei, J. Aumont +96

We present FOSSIL, a proposed space mission which is designed to deliver unprecedented absolute spectroscopic measurements of the sky intensity over a broad frequency range (50GHz…

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.CO2026

A Finely-Binned Measurement of the Connected Even-Parity Galaxy 4-Point Correlation Function of DESI Year 1 Luminous Red Galaxies

William Ortolá Leonard, Alex Krolewski, Zachary Slepian +46

We present the connected even-parity galaxy 4-Point Correlation Function (4PCF) of DESI Year 1 (Y1) Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs). This is one of the first measurements of the conne…

astro-ph.CO2026

Sizing the Universe with DESI Galaxy Sizes: Plain Fundamentals of Fundamental-Plane Lensing

Kun Xu, Jiaqi Wang, Ravi K. Sheth +44

Weak gravitational lensing provides a powerful way to map cosmic structure, but most current measurements rely on galaxy shape distortions from deep imaging surveys and are affecte…

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

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

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

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.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…

astro-ph.GA2026

Beyond traditional emission-line diagnostics: using autoencoders to uncover active galactic nuclei in DESI spectra

J. A. Alcolea, M. Siudek, M. Eriksen +49

The growing volume of spectroscopic data in modern surveys motivates data-driven approaches that complement traditional emission-line diagnostics for active galactic nuclei (AGN) i…

astro-ph.GA2026

Weak Evolution of Cosmic Atomic Hydrogen over the Past 4.5 Billion Years

Chuan-Peng Zhang, Hong Guo, Yizhou Gu +49

The cosmic star formation rate density (CSFRD) has declined sharply toward the present day, but the roles of the atomic and molecular gas reservoirs remain uncertain. We measure th…

astro-ph.CO2026

Tomography of the gamma-ray sky from cross-correlation with DESI DR2 and unWISE galaxies

Alex Krolewski, Neal Dalal, Will J. Percival +39

We study the origin of extragalactic gamma-ray emission observed by Fermi-LAT, using the cross-correlation of the gamma-ray sky with maps of large-scale structure provided by the D…

astro-ph.CO2026

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: optimized CDM simulation-based inference with weak lensing map-level hybrid statistics

J. Williamson, T. L. Makinen, N. Porqueres +85

We present cosmological constraints from the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 (DES Y3) weak lensing data using hierarchical hybrid statistics within a Bayesian simulation-based inference…

astro-ph.CO2026

Constraints on Dynamical Dark Energy from Multiple Probes in the Full Dark Energy Survey

DES Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, M. Adamow +166

We present results on dark energy evolution, assuming a time-dependent equation of state , from growth and geometric probes using the full six-year Dark Energy S…

astro-ph.GA2026

Joint Modeling of GD-1 and C-19 as Old Streams

Raymond G. Carlberg, Ting S. Li, Emma Jarvis +39

DESI observational data for the GD-1 and C-19 streams are compared to stream simulations in an evolving multi-halo potential of a Milky Way-like galaxy based on a cosmological Milk…

astro-ph.CO2026

Precision Kinematic Sunyaev--Zel'dovich Measurements Across Halo Mass and Redshift with DESI DR2 and ACT DR6: Part II. Bright Galaxy Survey and Emission-Line Galaxies

B. Hadzhiyska, S. Ferraro, F. J. Qu +50

We present the first high-significance spectroscopic stacked kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) measurements of circumgalactic gas profiles for both Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS) and Em…

astro-ph.IM2026

Deep Spectroscopy with DESI for Photometric Redshift Training and Calibration

Biprateep Dey, Jeffrey A. Newman, Tianqing Zhang +62

Deep spectroscopic samples can be used to improve photometric redshift (photo-) estimates and reduce uncertainties on redshift distributions. Such improvements can increase the…

astro-ph.CO2026

Local primordial non-Gaussianity using cross-correlations of DESI tracers

A. J. Rosado-Marín, A. J. Ross, H. Seo +46

We constrain local primordial non-Gaussianity by a combined analysis of auto and cross-correlations of DESI DR1 tracers, leveraging LRGs and QSOs as well as ELGs between $0.8<z<3.1…

astro-ph.CO2026

Measurement of the galaxy-velocity power spectrum of DESI tracers with the kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect using DESI DR2 and ACT DR6

Edmond Chaussidon, Selim C. Hotinli, Simone Ferraro +49

Joint analyses of high-resolution CMB temperature maps with galaxy surveys provide a unique way to reconstruct the radial velocity field of the underlying matter distribution via t…