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most citedThe Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey of SDSS-III

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95 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

The Binary Fraction of Milky Way Field Stars in DESI: Dependence on Chemical Abundance

Tian Qiu, Wenting Wang, Sergey E. Koposov +39

Binary populations encode information about the physical conditions of star formation and the subsequent evolution of stellar populations. Adopting a statistical method based on mu…

astro-ph.SR2026

The DESI Data Release 1 white dwarf catalogue

Andrew Swan, Boris T. Gänsicke, Paula Izquierdo +49

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is conducting a redshift survey, mapping the universe in three dimensions to measure the history of cosmic expansion. As well as extragalac…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

Quiescent Host Galaxies of Extended Quasars Revealed by Spectrophotometric Decomposition

Shengxiu Sun, Linhua Jiang, Zhiwei Pan +27

Previous works of low-redshift quasar host galaxies have focused on compact quasars and found that their host galaxies are mainly star-forming galaxies. Here we present a study of…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

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.CO2026

Alleviating prior dependencies for DESI DR1 clustering fits through reparameterization

Marco Bonici, Simone Paradiso, Glenn McGee +48

Bayesian analyses of the full-shape clustering of Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 1 (DR1) exhibit prior-volume projection effects, whereby weakly constrain…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

ODIN: Spectroscopic Validation of Ly-Emitting Galaxy Samples with DESI

Ethan Pinarski, Govind Ramgopal, Nicole Firestone +65

The One-hundred-deg^2 DECam Imaging in Narrowbands (ODIN) survey is conducting the widest-field deep narrow-band imaging of the equatorial and southern skies. ODIN uses three custo…

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.HE2026

The DESI Transients Survey: Legacy Classifications and Methodology

Xander J. Hall, Antonella Palmese, Segev BenZvi +56

We present the first systematic spectroscopic observations of extragalactic transients from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), as part of the DESI Transients Survey p…

astro-ph.GA2026

Signatures of a Tidally Induced Spiral Arm at the Anticenter of the Milky Way and a Kinematically Extended Anticenter Stream Using DESI DR2

Mika Lambert, Constance M. Rockosi, Sergey E. Koposov +46

Using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Milky Way Survey (DESI MWS), we examine the 6D space of the anticenter region of the stellar disk (150 Galactic longitude…

astro-ph.CO2025

The DESI DR1 Peculiar Velocity Survey: The Tully-Fisher Distance Catalog

K. Douglass, S. BenZvi, A. G. Kim +64

We calibrate the Tully-Fisher relation (TFR) using observations of spiral galaxies taken during the first year (DR1) of the DESI galaxy redshift survey. The rotational velocities o…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Composite Spectrum of QSO Absorption Line Systems in DESI DR2

Lucas Napolitano, Adam D. Myers, Adam Tedeschi +43

We present details regarding a composite spectrum of quasar (QSO) absorption line systems. In this composite spectrum we identify more than 70 absorption lines, and observe oxygen…

astro-ph.CO2025

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 million spectroscopically confirmed quasars from the first data r…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

The Binary Fraction of Stars in the Dwarf Galaxy Ursa Minor via Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

Tian Qiu, Wenting Wang, Sergey Koposov +45

We utilize multi-epoch line-of-sight velocity measurements from the Milky Way Survey of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument to estimate the binary fraction for member stars in…

astro-ph.CO2025

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…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Milky Way stellar halo is twisted and doubly broken: insights from DESI DR2 Milky Way Survey observation

Songting Li, Wenting Wang, Sergey E. Koposov +45

Using K giants from the second data release (DR2) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Milky Way (MW) Survey, we measure the shape, orientation, radial profile, and d…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2025

AT2025ulz and S250818k: Leveraging DESI spectroscopy in the hunt for a kilonova associated with a sub-solar mass gravitational wave candidate

Xander J. Hall, Antonella Palmese, Brendan O'Connor +47

On August 18th, 2025, the LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA collaboration reported a sub-threshold gravitational wave candidate detection consistent with a sub-solar-mass neutron star merger, den…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

Probing cosmic velocities with the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich signal in DESI Bright Galaxy Sample DR1 and ACT DR6

B. Hadzhiyska, Y. Gong, Y. Hsu +55

We present a measurement of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) signal using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Bright Galaxy Sample (BGS) Data Release 1 (…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Draco Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy in the First Year of DESI Data

J. Ding, C. Rockosi, Ting S. Li +40

We investigate the spatial distribution, kinematics, and metallicity of stars in the Draco dwarf spheroidal galaxy using data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI).…

astro-ph.CO2025

Enhancing Multiplet Alignment Measurements with Imaging

Alexus Annika Kumwembe, Claire Lamman, Daniel Eisenstein +35

We demonstrate that measurements of the gravitational tidal field made with spectroscopic redshifts can be improved with information from imaging surveys. The average orientation o…

astro-ph.CO2025

Constraining GREA, an alternative theory accounting for the present cosmic acceleration

R. Calderon, J. Garcia-Bellido, B. Vos-Gines +34

The origin of the Universe's late-time accelerated expansion remains unknown. The General Relativistic Entropic Acceleration (GREA) theory offers a compelling alternative to CDM…