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most citedOverview of the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys

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astro-ph.IM2022★ 197 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 8 cited

Constraining galaxy-halo connection with high-order statistics

Hanyu Zhang, Lado Samushia, David Brooks +13

We investigate using three-point statistics in constraining the galaxy-halo connection. We show that for some galaxy samples, the constraints on the halo occupation distribution pa…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 3 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2021

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…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 3 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 50 cited

LyaCoLoRe: Synthetic Datasets for Current and Future Lyman- Forest BAO Surveys

James Farr, Andreu Font-Ribera, Hélion du Mas des Bourboux +18

The statistical power of Lyman- forest Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) measurements is set to increase significantly in the coming years as new instruments such as the Dark En…

astro-ph.IM2018

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Fiber Positioner Production

Daniela Leitner, Jessica Aguilar, Jon Ameel +9

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is under construction to measure the expansion history of the Universe using the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation technique. The spectra…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 1 cited

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Fiber Positioner Thermal and Wind Disturbance Test

Kai Zhang, Joseph H. Silber, Henry D. Heetderks +8

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is under construction to measure the expansion history of the Universe using the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation technique. The spectra…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 1.9k cited

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…