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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…
The Robotic Multi-Object Focal Plane System of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)
Joseph Harry Silber, Parker Fagrelius, Kevin Fanning +97
A system of 5,020 robotic fiber positioners was installed in 2019 on the Mayall Telescope, at Kitt Peak National Observatory. The robots automatically re-target their optical fiber…
Testing the 10 spectrograph units for DESI: approach and results
S. Perruchot, P. -E. Blanc, J. Guy +34
The recently commissioned Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will measure the expansion history of the Universe using the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation technique. The spectr…
Installation of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument at the Mayall 4-meter telescope
Robert Besuner, Lori Allen, Charles Baltay +34
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is a Stage IV ground-based dark energy experiment that will measure the expansion history of the Universe using the Baryon Acoustic…
The DESI Sky Continuum Monitor System
Suk Sien Tie, David Kirkby, Paul Martini +20
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is an ongoing spectroscopic survey to measure the dark energy equation of state to unprecedented precision. We describe the DESI Sky…
Performance of Kitt Peak's Mayall 4-meter Telescope During DESI Commissioning
Aaron M. Meisner, Behzad Abareshi, Arjun Dey +21
In preparation for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a new top end was installed on the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. The refurbished t…
Performance of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument(DESI) Fiber System
Claire Poppett, Patrick Jelinsky, Julien Guy +17
The recently commissioned Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will measure the expansion historyof the universe using the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation technique. The spectra…
Preliminary Target Selection for the DESI Milky Way Survey (MWS)
Carlos Allende Prieto, Andrew P. Cooper, Arjun Dey +31
The DESI Milky Way Survey (MWS) will observe 8 million stars between mag, supplemented by observations of brighter targets under poor observing conditions. The s…
Preliminary Target Selection for the DESI Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS)
Omar Ruiz-Macias, Pauline Zarrouk, Shaun Cole +28
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will execute a nearly magnitude-limited survey of low redshift galaxies (, median ). Clustering…
Preliminary Target Selection for the DESI Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) Sample
Rongpu Zhou, Jeffrey A. Newman, Kyle S. Dawson +23
The DESI survey will observe more than 8 million candidate luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the redshift range . Here we present a preliminary version of the DESI LRG tar…
Preliminary Target Selection for the DESI Emission Line Galaxy (ELG) Sample
Anand Raichoor, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Tanveer Karim +26
DESI will precisely constrain cosmic expansion and the growth of structure by collecting 35 million redshifts across 80% of cosmic history and one third of the sky to s…
Preliminary Target Selection for the DESI Quasar (QSO) Sample
Christophe Yèche, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Charles-Antoine Claveau +24
The DESI survey will measure large-scale structure using quasars as direct tracers of dark matter in the redshift range and using quasar Ly- forests at . We p…
The Clustering of DESI-like Luminous Red Galaxies Using Photometric Redshifts
Rongpu Zhou, Jeffrey A. Newman, Yao-Yuan Mao +11
We present measurements of the redshift-dependent clustering of a DESI-like luminous red galaxy (LRG) sample selected from the Legacy Survey imaging dataset, and use the halo occup…
Tests of Acoustic Scale Shifts in Halo-based Mock Galaxy Catalogues
Duan Yutong, Daniel Eisenstein
We utilise mock catalogues from high-accuracy cosmological -body simulations to quantify shifts in the recovery of the acoustic scale that could potentially result from galaxy c…
Primordial Non-Gaussianity
P. Daniel Meerburg, Daniel Green, Muntazir Abidi +175
Our current understanding of the Universe is established through the pristine measurements of structure in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and the distribution and shapes of…
Focal Plate Structure Alignment of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
Yutong Duan, Joseph H. Silber, Todd M. Claybaugh +3
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is under construction to measure the expansion history of the universe using the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) technique. The sp…
Overview of the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys
Arjun Dey, David J. Schlegel, Dustin Lang +157
The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys are a combination of three public projects (the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey, the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey, and the Mayall z-band Legacy Surve…
ProtoDESI: First On-Sky Technology Demonstration for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
Parker Fagrelius, Behzad Abareshi, Lori Allen +33
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is under construction to measure the expansion history of the universe using the baryon acoustic oscillations technique. The spectra…
The DESI Experiment Part II: Instrument Design
DESI Collaboration, Amir Aghamousa, Jessica Aguilar +290
DESI (Dark Energy Spectropic Instrument) is a Stage IV ground-based dark energy experiment that will study baryon acoustic oscillations and the growth of structure through redshift…
The DESI Experiment Part I: Science,Targeting, and Survey Design
DESI Collaboration, Amir Aghamousa, Jessica Aguilar +290
DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) is a Stage IV ground-based dark energy experiment that will study baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) and the growth of structure through…