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most citedTarget Selection for the DESI Peculiar Velocity Survey

41 citations · 233 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Systematic uncertainties on DESI Tully-Fisher distances constrained with Integral Field Spectroscopy

Utsav Siwakoti, Lluis Galbany, Kelly A. Douglass +40

The Tully--Fisher (TF) relation is an empirical tool for estimating distances to spiral galaxies. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Peculiar Velocity (PV) Survey uses…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

The Extended Baryonic Tully-Fisher Relation for SDSS MaNGA Galaxies

Nitya Ravi, Kelly A. Douglass, Regina Demina

The baryonic Tully-Fisher relation (BTFR), a relationship between rotational velocity and baryonic mass in spiral galaxies, probes the relative content of baryonic and dark matter…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Quantifying the Active Galactic Nuclei Fraction in Cosmic Voids via Mid-Infrared Variability

Anish S. Aradhey, Anca Constantin, Michael S. Vogeley +1

Observations and theoretical simulations suggest that the large scale environment plays a significant role in how galaxies form and evolve and, in particular, whether and when gala…

astro-ph.IM2025

DeepVoid: A Deep Learning Void Detector

Sam Kumagai, Michael S. Vogeley, Miguel A. Aragon-Calvo +3

We present DeepVoid, an application of deep learning trained on a physical definition of cosmic voids to detect voids in density fields and galaxy distributions. By semantically se…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 29 cited

Data Release 1 of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

DESI Collaboration, M. Abdul Karim, A. G. Adame +306

In 2021 May the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration began a 5-year spectroscopic redshift survey to produce a detailed map of the evolving three-dimensional s…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 6 cited

DESIVAST: A Catalog of Low-Redshift Voids using Data from the DESI DR1 Bright Galaxy Survey

Hernan Rincon, Segev BenZvi, Kelly Douglass +37

We present three separate void catalogs created using a volume-limited sample of the DESI Year 1 Bright Galaxy Survey. We use the algorithms VoidFinder and V2 to construct void cat…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 27 cited

DESI Peculiar Velocity Survey -- Fundamental Plane

Khaled Said, Cullan Howlett, Tamara Davis +52

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Peculiar Velocity Survey aims to measure the peculiar velocities of early and late type galaxies within the DESI footprint using bot…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

The MOST Hosts Survey: spectroscopic observation of the host galaxies of ~40,000 transients using DESI

Maayane T. Soumagnac, Peter Nugent, Robert A. Knop +54

We present the MOST Hosts survey (Multi-Object Spectroscopy of Transient Hosts). The survey is planned to run throughout the five years of operation of the Dark Energy Spectroscopi…

astro-ph.GA2024

The impact of void-finding algorithms on galaxy classification

Fatima Zaidouni, Dahlia Veyrat, Kelly A. Douglass +1

We explore how the definition of a void influences the conclusions drawn about the impact of the void environment on galactic properties using two void-finding algorithms in the Vo…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 3 cited

A Full Accounting of the Visible Mass in SDSS MaNGA Disk Galaxies

Nitya Ravi, Kelly A. Douglass, Regina Demina

We present a study of the ratio of visible mass to total mass in spiral galaxies to better understand the relative amount of dark matter present in galaxies of different masses and…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 41 cited

Target Selection for the DESI Peculiar Velocity Survey

Christoph Saulder, Cullan Howlett, Kelly A. Douglass +35

We describe the target selection and characteristics of the DESI Peculiar Velocity Survey, the largest survey of peculiar velocities (PVs) using both the fundamental plane (FP) and…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 6 cited

A Comparison of Void-Finding Algorithms using Crossing Numbers

Dahlia Veyrat, Kelly A. Douglass, Segev BenZvi

We study how well void-finding algorithms identify cosmic void regions and whether we can quantitatively and qualitatively compare the voids they find with dynamical information fr…

astro-ph.CO2022

The DESI Survey Validation: Results from Visual Inspection of Bright Galaxies, Luminous Red Galaxies, and Emission Line Galaxies

Ting-Wen Lan, R. Tojeiro, E. Armengaud +79

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Survey has obtained a set of spectroscopic measurements of galaxies to validate the final survey design and target selections. To as…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 29 cited

Updated void catalogs of the SDSS DR7 main sample

Kelly A. Douglass, Dahlia Veyrat, Segev BenZvi

We produce several public void catalogs using a volume-limited subsample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS DR7). Using new implementations of three different voi…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 4 cited

Dependence of the ratio of total to visible mass on observable properties of SDSS MaNGA galaxies

Kelly A. Douglass, Regina Demina

Using spectroscopic observations from the SDSS MaNGA DR15, we study the relationships between the ratio of total to visible mass and various parameters characterizing the evolution…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 14 cited

The influence of the void environment on the ratio of dark matter halo mass to stellar mass in SDSS MaNGA galaxies

Kelly A. Douglass, Jacob A. Smith, Regina Demina

We study how the void environment affects the formation and evolution of galaxies in the universe by comparing the ratio of dark matter halo mass to stellar mass of galaxies in voi…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 12 cited

Inflation and Dark Energy from spectroscopy at

Simone Ferraro, Michael J. Wilson, Muntazir Abidi +140

The expansion of the Universe is understood to have accelerated during two epochs: in its very first moments during a period of Inflation and much more recently, at , when D…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 17 cited

Testing Gravity Using Type Ia Supernovae Discovered by Next-Generation Wide-Field Imaging Surveys

A. G. Kim, G. Aldering, P. Antilogus +29

In the upcoming decade cadenced wide-field imaging surveys will increase the number of identified Type~Ia supernovae (SNe~Ia) from the hundreds to the hundreds of thousands…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 7 cited

Science from an Ultra-Deep, High-Resolution Millimeter-Wave Survey

Neelima Sehgal, Ho Nam Nguyen, Joel Meyers +66

Opening up a new window of millimeter-wave observations that span frequency bands in the range of 30 to 500 GHz, survey half the sky, and are both an order of magnitude deeper (abo…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 10 cited

Influence of the Void Environment on Chemical Abundances in Dwarf Galaxies and Implications for Connecting Star Formation and Halo Mass

Kelly A. Douglass, Michael S. Vogeley, Renyue Cen

We study how the void environment affects galactic chemical evolution by comparing the oxygen and nitrogen abundances of dwarf galaxies in voids with dwarf galaxies in denser regio…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 9 cited

Large-scale environmental dependence of the abundance ratio of nitrogen to oxygen in blue, star-forming galaxies fainter than L*

Kelly A. Douglass, Michael S. Vogeley

We examine how the cosmic environment affects the chemical evolution of galaxies in the Universe by comparing the N/O ratio of dwarf galaxies in voids with dwarf galaxies in more d…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 12 cited

Determining the large-scale environmental dependence of gas-phase metallicity in dwarf galaxies

Kelly A. Douglass, Michael S. Vogeley

We study how the cosmic environment affects galaxy evolution in the Universe by comparing the metallicities of dwarf galaxies in voids with dwarf galaxies in more dense regions. Ra…