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astro-ph.CO2026

The scale of homogeneity in DESI Data Release 1

Cullan Howlett, L. Giani, Elizabeth G. O'Brien +65

We present measurements of the scale of cosmic homogeneity using the first data release (DR1) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), the largest publicly available spe…

astro-ph.IM2026

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…

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.CO2026

CoLoRe-2LPT: Lyman- mock catalogues for the validation of DESI cosmological analyses

M. F. Ruiz-Herrera Bernal, S. Avila, A. Font-Ribera +90

The Lyman- (Ly) forest has become a crucial probe for studying the large-scale structure of the universe at high redshift (), providing powerful constraints on Baryon…

astro-ph.CO2026

Lyman- forest holography: 3D predictions from 1D measurements

J. Chaves-Montero, A. Font-Ribera, J. Aguilar +68

Cosmological analyses of Lyman- forest clustering rely on either one-dimensional correlations along individual sightlines or three-dimensional correlations between different sig…

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.GA2026

The largest sample of AGN outflows in dwarf galaxies using DESI DR1

V. Rodríguez Morales, M. Mezcua, Ragadeepika Pucha +40

In the last decade, the presence of active galactic nuclei (AGN) outflows and feedback in dwarf galaxies (<) has gained ground over supern…

astro-ph.CO2026

DESI Data Release 2 ELGs: Property-dependent subsamples, imaging systematics, and clustering

T. Hagen, K. S. Dawson, Z. Zheng +42

Using emission-line galaxies (ELGs) from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 2, we evaluate a property-dependent correction to imaging systematics. We deri…

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.GA2026

Unveiling Hidden Lyman Alpha Emitters in the DESI DR1 Data

Jui-Kuan Chan, Ting-Wen Lan, J. Xavier Prochaska +39

We present an automatic method based on machine-learning convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture to detect Lyman alpha emitters (LAE) hidden in the Data Release 1 spectrosc…

astro-ph.CO2026

A Natural Telescope: Discovery of the Strongly Lensed Type II SN 2025mkn at

Cameron Lemon, Ariel Goobar, Joel Johansson +90

We present the discovery of SN 2025mkn, a gravitationally lensed Type II supernova. First detected as a blue transient in ZTF, 0.83 from a elliptical gala…

astro-ph.CO2026

First Detection of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) Feature in the 3-Point Correlation Function of DESI DR1 Luminous Red Galaxies

Farshad Kamalinejad, Zachary Slepian, Alex Krolewski +55

We present the first detection of the 3-Point Correlation Function (3PCF) Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) signal from the DESI Data Release 1 (DR1) sample of Luminous Red Galaxie…

astro-ph.CO2026★ 3 cited

The DESI DR1 Peculiar Velocity Survey: growth rate measurements from the maximum likelihood fields method

Y. Lai, C. Howlett, J. Aguilar +60

We present the constraint on the growth rate of structure from the combination of DESI DR1 BGS sample, Fundamental Plane, and Tully-Fisher peculiar velocity catalogues using the ma…

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.CO2026

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from the C IV Forest with DESI DR2

Abby Bault, Andrei Cuceu, Julien Guy +53

We present a measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) in the cross-correlation of triply ionized carbon C IV absorption with the positions of quasars (QSO) and Emission Li…

astro-ph.CO2026

The Linear Point Standard Ruler with DESI DR1 and DR2 Data

N. Uberoi, F. Nikakhtar, N. Padmanabhan +45

The linear point, a purely geometric feature in the monopole of the two-point correlation function, has been proposed as an alternative standard ruler. Compared to the peak in the…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Electron temperature relations and the direct N, O, Ne, S and Ar abundances of 49959 star-forming galaxies in DESI Data Release 2

D. Scholte, F. Cullen, J. Moustakas +42

We present the largest direct-method abundance catalogue of galaxies to date, containing measurements of 49959 star-forming galaxies at z < 0.96 from DESI Data Release 2. By direct…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2025

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…

astro-ph.CO2025

Probing the environment around GW170817 with DESI: insights on galaxy group peculiar velocities for standard siren measurements

A. J. Amsellem, A. Palmese, K. Douglass +56

We present a new measurement of the Hubble constant, , following the gravitational wave event GW170817 and Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) observations. A standard…

astro-ph.GA2025

Tracing the Cosmic Evolution of the Cool Circumgalactic Medium of Luminous Red Galaxies with DESI Year 1 Data

Yu-Ling Chang, Ting-Wen Lan, J. Xavier Prochaska +44

We investigate the properties of the cool circumgalactic medium (CGM) of massive galaxies and their cosmic evolution. By using the year 1 dataset of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) an…

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

Measurements of quasar proximity zones with the Ly 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…

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…