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20182026
most citedOverview of the Instrumentation for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

465 citations · 1.1k across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Galaxy-SMBH co-evolution in 2,435 DESI disk galaxies and merger-free BH growth in bulgeless disks

Sophie M. Jewell, Rebecca J. Smethurst, Chris J. Lintott +8

We analyse black hole scaling relations for disk-dominated galaxies, and present evidence for secularly driven galaxy-black hole co-evolution. We do this observationally by looking…

astro-ph.GA2026

The X-ray-Weak Tail of the Quasar Population: Physical Properties and Redshift Evolution of Variability-Selected AGN in eFEDS

P. Arévalo, J. Buchner, M. Salvato +10

(abridged) Aims: To characterize variability-selected AGN candidates within the eROSITA Final Equatorial-Depth Survey (eFEDS), leveraging the synergy between optical variability an…

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.GA2026

Beyond traditional emission-line diagnostics: using autoencoders to uncover active galactic nuclei in DESI spectra

J. A. Alcolea, M. Siudek, M. Eriksen +49

The growing volume of spectroscopic data in modern surveys motivates data-driven approaches that complement traditional emission-line diagnostics for active galactic nuclei (AGN) i…

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.GA2026

A New Record Census of Dwarf AGN and a Bimodal - Scaling Relation with DESI DR1

Ragadeepika Pucha, S. Juneau, M. Mezcua +48

Using the first spectroscopic data release from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI DR1), we conduct the largest systematic search for active galactic nuclei (AGN) signa…

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.GA2024

Tripling the Census of Dwarf AGN Candidates Using DESI Early Data

Ragadeepika Pucha, S. Juneau, Arjun Dey +46

Using early data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey, we search for AGN signatures in 410,757 line-emitting galaxies. By employing the BPT emission-line rat…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 31 cited

Value Added Catalog of physical properties of more than 1.3 million galaxies from the DESI Survey

M. Siudek, R. Pucha, M. Mezcua +50

Aims. We present an extensive catalog of the physical properties of more than a million galaxies within the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), one of the largest spectros…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

Stellar Mass Calibrations for Local Low-Mass Galaxies

Mithi A. C. de los Reyes, Yasmeen Asali, Risa Wechsler +10

The stellar masses of galaxies are measured using integrated light via several methods -- however, few of these methods were designed for low-mass ($M_{\star}\lesssim10^{8}\rm{M_{\…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

Identifying Quasars from the DESI Bright Galaxy Survey

S. Juneau, R. Canning, D. M. Alexander +56

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) cosmology survey includes a Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS) which will yield spectra for over ten million bright galaxies (r<20.2 AB mag)…

astro-ph.IM2024

SPARCL: SPectra Analysis and Retrievable Catalog Lab

Stéphanie Juneau, Alice Jacques, Steve Pothier +6

SPectra Analysis and Retrievable Catalog Lab (SPARCL) at NOIRLab's Astro Data Lab was created to efficiently serve large optical and infrared spectroscopic datasets. It consists of…

astro-ph.GA2023

A striking relationship between dust extinction and radio detection in DESI QSOs: evidence for a dusty blow-out phase in red QSOs

V. A. Fawcett, D. M. Alexander, A. Brodzeller +39

We present the first eight months of data from our secondary target program within the ongoing Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey. Our program uses a mid-infrared a…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 343 cited

The Early Data Release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +266

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) completed its five-month Survey Validation in May 2021. Spectra of stellar and extragalactic targets from Survey Validation constitu…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 6 cited

Validation of the Scientific Program for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +261

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) was designed to conduct a survey covering 14,000 deg over five years to constrain the cosmic expansion history through precise m…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 3 cited

Reconstructing and Classifying SDSS DR16 Galaxy Spectra with Machine-Learning and Dimensionality Reduction Algorithms

Felix Pat, Stéphanie Juneau, Vanessa Böhm +6

Optical spectra of galaxies and quasars from large cosmological surveys are used to measure redshifts and infer distances. They are also rich with information on the intrinsic prop…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 19 cited

Lyman-Alpha Escape from Low-Mass, Compact, High-Redshift Galaxies

Ragadeepika Pucha, Naveen A. Reddy, Arjun Dey +5

We investigate the effects of stellar populations and sizes on Ly escape in 27 spectroscopically confirmed and 35 photometric Lyman-Alpha Emitters (LAEs) at z 2.65 in…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 465 cited

Overview of the Instrumentation for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

B. Abareshi, J. Aguilar, S. Ahlen +264

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has embarked on an ambitious five-year survey to explore the nature of dark energy with spectroscopy of 40 million galaxies and quas…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 40 cited

A New Infrared Criterion for Selecting Active Galactic Nuclei to Lower Luminosities

Raphael E. Hviding, Kevin N. Hainline, Marcia Rieke +3

We present a spectroscopic and photometric analysis of a sample of 416,288 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) matched to mid-infrared (mid-IR) data from the Wide-Fie…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 49 cited

Second Data Release of the All-sky NOIRLab Source Catalog

David L. Nidever, Arjun Dey, Katie Fasbender +7

We announce the second data release (DR2) of the NOIRLab Source Catalog (NSC), using 412,116 public images from CTIO-4m+DECam, the KPNO-4m+Mosaic3 and the Bok-2.3m+90Prime. NSC DR2…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 32 cited

Tidal destruction in a low mass galaxy environment: the discovery of tidal tails around DDO 44

Jeffrey L. Carlin, Christopher T. Garling, Annika H. G. Peter +10

We report the discovery of a ( kpc) long stellar tidal stream emanating from the dwarf galaxy DDO 44, a likely satellite of Local Volume galaxy NGC 2403 located…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 15 cited

Hyper Wide Field Imaging of the Local Group Dwarf Irregular Galaxy IC 1613: An Extended Component of Metal-poor Stars

Ragadeepika Pucha, Jeffrey L. Carlin, Beth Willman +10

Stellar halos offer fossil evidence for hierarchical structure formation. Since halo assembly is predicted to be scale-free, stellar halos around low-mass galaxies constrain proper…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 21 cited

The Extremely Luminous Quasar Survey (ELQS) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey footprint. II. The North Galactic Cap Sample

Jan-Torge Schindler, Xiaohui Fan, Ian D. McGreer +10

We present the North Galactic Cap sample of the Extremely Luminous Quasar Survey (ELQS-N), which targets quasars with at in an area of $\sim7600\,\r…