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20162025
most citedThe DESI Experiment Part I: Science,Targeting, and Survey Design

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84 papers

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

Photometric Redshift Estimation for Rubin Observatory Data Preview 1 with Redshift Assessment Infrastructure Layers (RAIL)

T. Zhang, E. Charles, J. F. Crenshaw +87

We present the first systematic analysis of photometric redshifts (photo-z) estimated from the Rubin Observatory Data Preview 1 (DP1) data taken with the Legacy Survey of Space and…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 17 cited

Backlighting extended gas halos around luminous red galaxies: kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect from DESI Y1 x ACT

Bernardita Ried Guachalla, Emmanuel Schaan, Boryana Hadzhiyska +58

The gas density profile around galaxies, shaped by feedback and affecting the galaxy lensing signal, is imprinted on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by the kinematic Sunyaev-…

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.CO2025★ 101 cited

DESI DR2 Results I: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from the Lyman Alpha Forest

DESI Collaboration, M. Abdul-Karim, J. Aguilar +147

We present the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) measurements with the Lyman-alpha (LyA) forest from the second data release (DR2) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 539 cited

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

DESI Collaboration, M. Abdul-Karim, J. Aguilar +184

We present baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements from more than 14 million galaxies and quasars drawn from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 2 (…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

The Spectroscopic Stage-5 Experiment

Robert Besuner, Arjun Dey, Alex Drlica-Wagner +106

The existence, properties, and dynamics of the dark sectors of our universe pose fundamental challenges to our current model of physics, and large-scale astronomical surveys may be…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 3 cited

Measurements of the Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect with ACT and DESI Luminous Red Galaxies

R. Henry Liu, Simone Ferraro, Emmanuel Schaan +54

Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) photons scatter off the free-electron gas in galaxies and clusters, allowing us to use the CMB as a backlight to probe the gas in and around low-r…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 187 cited

DESI 2024 VII: Cosmological Constraints from the Full-Shape Modeling of Clustering Measurements

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +210

We present cosmological results from the measurement of clustering of galaxy, quasar and Lyman- forest tracers from the first year of observations with the Dark Energy Spectrosc…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 81 cited

DESI 2024 II: Sample Definitions, Characteristics, and Two-point Clustering Statistics

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +200

We present the samples of galaxies and quasars used for DESI 2024 cosmological analyses, drawn from the DESI Data Release 1 (DR1). We describe the construction of large-scale struc…

astro-ph.GA2024

The first identification of Lyman Changing-look Quasars at high-redshift in DESI

Wei-Jian Guo, Zhiwei Pan, Małgorzata Siudek +38

We present two cases of Ly changing-look (CL) quasars (J1306 and J1512) along with two additional candidates (J1511 and J1602), all discovered serendipitously at through…

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★ 48 cited

Modified Gravity Constraints from the Full Shape Modeling of Clustering Measurements from DESI 2024

M. Ishak, J. Pan, R. Calderon +68

We present cosmological constraints on deviations from general relativity (GR) from the first-year of clustering observations from Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) in co…

astro-ph.CO2024

Mitigating Imaging Systematics for DESI 2024 Emission Line Galaxies and Beyond

A. J. Rosado-Marín, A. J. Ross, H. Seo +56

Emission Line Galaxies (ELGs) are one of the main tracers that the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) uses to probe the universe. However, they are afflicted by strong spu…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 4 cited

Exploring HOD-dependent systematics for the DESI 2024 Full-Shape galaxy clustering analysis

N. Findlay, S. Nadathur, W. J. Percival +39

We analyse the robustness of the DESI 2024 cosmological inference from the full shape of the galaxy power spectrum to uncertainties in the Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) model…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 73 cited

DESI 2024 V: Full-Shape Galaxy Clustering from Galaxies and Quasars

A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar, S. Ahlen +195

We present the measurements and cosmological implications of the galaxy two-point clustering using over 4.7 million unique galaxy and quasar redshifts in the range divi…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 27 cited

DESI Peculiar Velocity Survey -- Fundamental Plane

Khaled Said, Cullan Howlett, Tamara Davis +52

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Peculiar Velocity Survey aims to measure the peculiar velocities of early and late type galaxies within the DESI footprint using bot…

astro-ph.IM2024

Correcting Turbulence-induced Errors in Fiber Positioning for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

E. F. Schlafly, J. Guy, K. Honscheid +37

Highly-multiplexed, robotic, fiber-fed spectroscopic surveys are observing tens of millions of stars and galaxies. For many systems, accurate positioning relies on imaging the fibe…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 21 cited

Fiducial-Cosmology-dependent systematics for the DESI 2024 BAO Analysis

A. Pérez-Fernández, L. Medina-Varela, R. Ruggeri +61

When measuring the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) scale from galaxy surveys, one typically assumes a fiducial cosmology when converting redshift measurements into comoving dist…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 30 cited

Mitigation of DESI fiber assignment incompleteness effect on two-point clustering with small angular scale truncated estimators

M. Pinon, A. de Mattia, P. McDonald +50

We present a method to mitigate the effects of fiber assignment incompleteness in two-point power spectrum and correlation function measurements from galaxy spectroscopic surveys,…

astro-ph.CO2024

The clustering of Lyman Alpha Emitting galaxies at z=2-3

M. White, A. Raichoor, Arjun Dey +52

We measure the clustering of Lyman Alpha Emitting galaxies (LAEs) selected from the One-hundred-square-degree DECam Imaging in Narrowbands (ODIN) survey, with spectroscopic follow-…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 3 cited

Blinding scheme for the scale-dependence bias signature of local primordial non-Gaussianity for DESI 2024

E. Chaussidon, A. de Mattia, C. Yèche +32

The next generation of spectroscopic surveys is expected to achieve an unprecedented level of accuracy in the measurement of cosmological parameters. To avoid confirmation bias and…

astro-ph.CO2024

CMB lensing and Lyα forest cross bispectrum from DESI's first-year quasar sample

N. G. Karaçaylı, P. Martini, D. H. Weinberg +50

The squeezed cross-bispectrum \bispeconed\ between the gravitational lensing in the Cosmic Microwave Background and the 1D \lya\ forest power spectrum can constrain bias parameters…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

Validation of the DESI 2024 Ly forest BAO analysis using synthetic datasets

Andrei Cuceu, Hiram K. Herrera-Alcantar, Calum Gordon +56

The first year of data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) contains the largest set of Lyman- (Ly) forest spectra ever observed. This data, collected in the…

astro-ph.CO2024

Constraints on the spacetime variation of the fine-structure constant using DESI emission-line galaxies

Linhua Jiang, Zhiwei Pan, Jessica Nicole Aguilar +38

We present strong constraints on the spacetime variation of the fine-structure constant using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). In this pilot work, we utilize $\…