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most citedOverview of the Instrumentation for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

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astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

A Semi-Supervised Learning Method for the Identification of Bad Exposures in Large Imaging Surveys

Yufeng Luo, Adam D. Myers, Alex Drlica-Wagner +7

As the data volume of astronomical imaging surveys rapidly increases, traditional methods for image anomaly detection, such as visual inspection by human experts, are becoming impr…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 5 cited

Astrometric Calibration and Performance of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Focal Plane

S. Kent, E. Neilsen, K. Honscheid +46

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, consisting of 5020 robotic fiber positioners and associated systems on the Mayall telescope at Kitt Peak, Arizona, is carrying out a surve…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 5 cited

Comparing the Photometric Calibration of DESI Imaging and Gaia Synthetic Photometry

Rongpu Zhou, Arjun Dey, Dustin Lang +3

The relative photometric calibration errors in the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys (LS), which are used for DESI target selection, can leave imprints on the DESI target densities and b…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 57 cited

Performance of the Quasar Spectral Templates for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

Allyson Brodzeller, Kyle Dawson, Stephen Bailey +44

Millions of quasar spectra will be collected by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), leading to a four-fold increase in the number of known quasars. High accuracy quasa…

astro-ph.IM2022

The MegaMapper: A Stage-5 Spectroscopic Instrument Concept for the Study of Inflation and Dark Energy

David J. Schlegel, Juna A. Kollmeier, Greg Aldering +86

In this white paper, we present the MegaMapper concept. The MegaMapper is a proposed ground-based experiment to measure Inflation parameters and Dark Energy from galaxy redshifts a…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 240 cited

The Spectroscopic Data Processing Pipeline for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

J. Guy, S. Bailey, A. Kremin +55

We describe the spectroscopic data processing pipeline of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), which is conducting a redshift survey of about 40 million galaxies and qu…