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A Hybrid R-Theta Fiber Positioning Robot Using a Piezoelectric Bender for Radial Motion

Michael Schubnell, Tim Fanning, Andrew Hope +3

Future massively multiplexed spectroscopic surveys require focal planes with increasingly dense arrays of robotic fiber positioners. The DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument)…

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Spec-S5: A Next-Generation All-Sky Spectroscopic Facility Enabling Large-Scale Surveys for Cosmology and Astrophysics

Claire Poppett, David J. Schlegel, Arjun Dey +8

The Stage-5 Spectroscopic Experiment (Spec-S5) is a next-generation, all-sky spectroscopic facility designed to address fundamental questions in cosmology and astrophysics. Buildin…

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Luminosity function of quasars at from SDSS and DESI

Gaocheng Yin, Linhua Jiang, Zhiwei Pan +54

We present a study of the evolution of type 1 quasars at , covering the peak epoch of quasar activity. The quasar evolution has been extensively explored by a variety of…

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Cosmic Pairs: A DESI Census of Dual and Offset AGN as Precursors to Massive Black Hole Binaries

Ekaterine Dadiani, Antonella Palmese, Yihao Zhou +52

We present a systematic census of dual and offset active galactic nuclei (AGN) using spectroscopic data from the first data release (DR1) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrumen…

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Linear motion (R-FLEX) for minature 6.2 mm pitch optical fiber position robots with polar (R-theta) kinematics

Nicholas R. Wenner, Joseph H. Silber, Michael S. Schubnell +4

R-FLEX is a compact, low-part-count flexure-based radial positioning mechanism designed for the next generation of massively parallel fiber-fed spectroscopic telescope instruments.…

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Disentangling the Distant Stellar Halo Using K-Giants in the DESI Year 3 Data

Namitha Kizhuprakkat, Andrew P. Cooper, Wenting Wang +42

We present a sample of 88,959 K-giants from DESI Milky Way Survey Year 3 data, which we use to characterize the chemo-dynamical properties of the stellar halo at Galactocentric dis…