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most citedDESI DR2 Results II: Measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations and Cosmological Constraints

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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…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Dwarf galaxy halo masses from spectroscopic and photometric lensing in DESI and DES

Helena Treiber, Alexandra Amon, Risa H. Wechsler +46

We present the most precise and lowest-mass weak lensing measurements of dwarf galaxies to date, enabled by spectroscopic lenses from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI…

astro-ph.GA2025

A New Way to Discover Strong Gravitational Lenses: Pair-wise Spectroscopic Search from DESI DR1

Yuan-Ming Hsu, Xiaosheng Huang, Christopher J. Storfer +47

We present a new method to search for strong gravitational lensing systems by pairing spectra that are close together on the sky in a spectroscopic survey. We visually inspect 26,6…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

DESI DR1 Ly forest: 3D full-shape analysis and cosmological constraints

Andrei Cuceu, Hiram K. Herrera-Alcantar, Calum Gordon +75

We perform an analysis of the full shapes of Lyman- (Ly) forest correlation functions measured from the first data release (DR1) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (…

astro-ph.CO2025

Clustering analysis of medium-band selected high-redshift galaxies

H. Ebina, M. White, A. Raichoor +57

Next-generation large-scale structure spectroscopic surveys will probe cosmology at high redshifts , relying on abundant galaxy tracers such as Ly emitters (LAE…

astro-ph.CO2025

Fiducial-Cosmology-dependent systematics for the DESI 2024 Full-Shape Analysis

R. Gsponer, S. Ramirez-Solano, F. Rodríguez-Martínez +65

We assess the impact of the fiducial cosmology choice on cosmological inference from full-shape (FS) fits of the galaxy power spectrum in the DESI 2024 Data Release 1 (DR1). Using…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 5 cited

The Compilation and Validation of the Spectroscopic Redshift Catalogs for the DESI-COSMOS and DESI-XMMLSS Fields

J. Ratajczak, K. S. Dawson, N. Weaverdyck +74

Over several dedicated programs that include targets beyond the main cosmological samples, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collected spectra for 304,970 unique obje…

astro-ph.CO2025

Study of the Connected Four-Point Correlation Function of Galaxies from DESI Data Release 1 Luminous Red Galaxy Sample

J. Hou, R. N. Cahn, J. Aguilar +43

We present a measurement of the non-Gaussian four-point correlation function (4PCF) from the DESI DR1 Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) sample. For the gravitationally induced parity-even…

astro-ph.CO2025

Combined tracer analysis for DESI 2024 BAO

D. Valcin, M. Rashkovetskyi, H. Seo +64

This paper demonstrates how the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 1 (DR1) and future baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) analyses can optimally combine overla…

astro-ph.CO2025

Cosmological neutrino mass: a frequentist overview in light of DESI

D. Chebat, C. Yèche, E. Armengaud +51

We derive constraints on the neutrino mass using a variety of recent cosmological datasets, including DESI BAO, the full-shape analysis of the DESI matter power spectrum and the on…

astro-ph.CO2025

Intrinsic alignment demographics for next-generation lensing: Revealing galaxy property trends with DESI Y1 direct measurements

J. Siegel, J. McCullough, A. Amon +60

We present direct measurements of the intrinsic alignments (IA) of over 2 million spectroscopic galaxies using DESI Data Release 1 and imaging from four lensing surveys: DES, HSC,…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

The Lyman- Forest from LBGs: First 3D Correlation Measurement with DESI and Prospects for Cosmology

Hiram K. Herrera-Alcantar, Eric Armengaud, Christophe Yèche +50

The Lyman- (Ly) forest is a key tracer of large-scale structure at redshifts z > 2, traditionally studied using spectra of quasars. Here, we explore the viability Lyman Break…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 3 cited

Testing gravitational physics by combining DESI DR1 and weak lensing datasets using the E_G estimator

S. J. Rauhut, C. Blake, U. Andrade +61

The action of gravitational physics across space-time creates observable signatures in the behaviour of light and matter. We perform combined-probe studies using data from the Bary…

astro-ph.GA2025

The dark matter content of Milky Way dwarf spheroidal galaxies: Draco, Sextans and Ursa Minor

Hao Yang, Wenting Wang, Ling Zhu +50

The Milky Way Survey of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has so far observed three classical dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs): Draco, Sextans and Ursa Minor. Based…

astro-ph.GA2025

DESI DR2 reference mocks: clustering results from Uchuu-BGS and LRG

E. Fernández-García, F. Prada, A. Smith +64

The aim of this work is to construct mock galaxy catalogues that accurately reproduce the redshift evolution of galaxy number density, clustering statistics, and baryonic propertie…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 9 cited

Cosmology from Planck CMB Lensing and DESI DR1 Quasar Tomography

R. de Belsunce, A. Krolewski, S. Chiarenza +60

We present a measurement of the amplitude of matter fluctuations over the redshift range 0.8 <= z <= 3.5 from the cross correlation of over 1.2 million spectroscopic quasars select…

astro-ph.CO2025

Lensing Without Borders: Measurements of galaxy-galaxy lensing and projected galaxy clustering in DESI DR1

S. Heydenreich, A. Leauthaud, C. Blake +64

We present Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing measurements obtained by cross-correlating spectroscopically observed galaxies from the first data release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrum…

astro-ph.CO2025

Reconstructing Quasar Spectra and Measuring the Ly Forest with

ChangHoon Hahn, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Peter Melchior +37

Quasar spectra carry the imprint of foreground intergalactic medium (IGM) through absorption features. In particular, absorption caused by neutral hydrogen gas, the ``Ly forest,…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 6 cited

Beyond Traditional Diagnostics: Identifying Active Galactic Nuclei with Spectral Energy Distribution Fitting in DESI Data

M. Siudek, M. Mezcua, C. Circosta +36

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are typically identified through their distinctive X-ray or radio emissions, mid-infrared (MIR) colors, or emission lines. However, each method capture…

astro-ph.IM2025

Identifying Anomalous DESI Galaxy Spectra with a Variational Autoencoder

C. Nicolaou, R. P. Nathan, O. Lahav +43

The tens of millions of spectra being captured by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) provide tremendous discovery potential. In this work we show how Machine Learning,…

astro-ph.CO2025

Modeling of the High Column Density systems in The Lyman-Alpha Forest

T. Tan, J. Rich, E. Chaussidon +41

The Lyman- forests observed in the spectra of high-redshift quasars can be used as a tracer of the cosmological matter density to study baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) and th…

astro-ph.SR2025

The Backup Program of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument's Milky Way Survey

Arjun Dey, Sergey E. Koposov, Joan R. Najita +66

The Milky Way Backup Program (MWBP), a survey currently underway with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) on the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-m Telescope, works at the margins…

astro-ph.CO2025

Modelling the impact of quasar redshift errors on the full-shape analysis of correlations in the Lyman- forest

Calum Gordon, Andrei Cuceu, Andreu Font-Ribera +45

In preparation for the first cosmological measurements from the full-shape of the Lyman- (Ly) forest from DESI, we must carefully model all relevant systematics that might bi…

astro-ph.CO2025

A joint analysis of 3D clustering and galaxy x CMB-lensing cross-correlations with DESI DR1 galaxies

M. Maus, M. White, N. Sailer +58

The spectroscopic data from DESI Data Release 1 (DR1) galaxies enables the analysis of 3D clustering by fitting galaxy power spectra and reconstructed correlation functions in reds…