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20182024
most citedThe Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Cosmological Implications from two Decades of Spectroscopic Surveys at the Apache Point observatory

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astro-ph.CO2024

Extensive analysis of reconstruction algorithms for DESI 2024 baryon acoustic oscillations

X. Chen, Z. Ding, E. Paillas +64

Reconstruction of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) signal has been a standard procedure in BAO analyses over the past decade and has helped to improve the BAO parameter precis…

astro-ph.CO2024

Suppressing the sample variance of DESI-like galaxy clustering with fast simulations

Z. Ding, A. Variu, S. Alam +44

Ongoing and upcoming galaxy redshift surveys, such as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey, will observe vast regions of sky and a wide range of redshifts. In ord…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 5 cited

DESI Mock Challenge: Constructing DESI galaxy catalogues based on FastPM simulations

Andrei Variu, Shadab Alam, Cheng Zhao +30

Together with larger spectroscopic surveys such as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), the precision of large scale structure studies and thus the constraints on the c…

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.CO2023★ 41 cited

First Detection of the BAO Signal from Early DESI Data

Jeongin Moon, David Valcin, Michael Rashkovetskyi +65

We present the first detection of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) signal obtained using unblinded data collected during the initial two months of operations of the Stage-IV…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 6 cited

Cosmic void exclusion models and their impact on the distance scale measurements from large scale structure

Andrei Variu, Cheng Zhao, Daniel Forero-Sánchez +5

Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAOs) studies based on the clustering of voids and matter tracers provide important constraints on cosmological parameters related to the expansion…

astro-ph.CO2022

Void BAO measurements on quasars from eBOSS

A. Tamone, C. Zhao, D. Forero-Sánchez +5

We present the clustering of voids based on the quasar (QSO) sample of the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 16 in configuration space. We define voids…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 25 cited

The DESI -body Simulation Project -- II. Suppressing sample variance with fast simulations

Zhejie Ding, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Yu Yu +19

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will construct a large and precise three-dimensional map of our Universe. The survey effective volume reaches $\sim20\Gpchcube$. It is a…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 58 cited

The completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Cosmological implications from multi-tracer BAO analysis with galaxies and voids

Cheng Zhao, Andrei Variu, Mengfan He +15

We construct cosmic void catalogues with the DIVE void finder upon SDSS BOSS DR12 and eBOSS DR16 galaxy samples with BAO reconstruction applied, and perform a joint BAO analysis us…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 5 cited

Cosmic Void Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Measurement: Evaluation of Sensitivity to Selection Effects

Daniel Forero-Sánchez, Cheng Zhao, Charling Tao +5

Cosmic voids defined as a subset of Delaunay Triangulation (DT) circumspheres have been used to measure the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) scale; providing tighter constraints…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 1.4k cited

The Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Cosmological Implications from two Decades of Spectroscopic Surveys at the Apache Point observatory

eBOSS Collaboration, Shadab Alam, Marie Aubert +97

We present the cosmological implications from final measurements of clustering using galaxies, quasars, and Ly forests from the completed Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) lineage…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 8 cited

Cosmology with the MaunaKea Spectroscopic Explorer

Will J. Percival, Christophe Yèche, Maciej Bilicki +11

This document summarizes the science cases related to cosmology studies with the MaunaKea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE), a highly-multiplexed (4332 fibers), wide FOV (1.5 sq deg), l…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 19 cited

Improving baryon acoustic oscillation measurement with the combination of cosmic voids and galaxies

Cheng Zhao, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Francisco-Shu Kitaura +6

We develop a methodology to optimise the measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) from a given galaxy sample. In our previous work, we demonstrated that one can measure BAO…