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

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astro-ph.CO2023★ 6 cited

Broad Absorption Line Quasars in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Early Data Release

S. Filbert, P. Martini, K. Seebaluck +41

Broad absorption line (BAL) quasars are characterized by gas clouds that absorb flux at the wavelength of common quasar spectral features, although blueshifted by velocities that c…

astro-ph.GA2023

A striking relationship between dust extinction and radio detection in DESI QSOs: evidence for a dusty blow-out phase in red QSOs

V. A. Fawcett, D. M. Alexander, A. Brodzeller +39

We present the first eight months of data from our secondary target program within the ongoing Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey. Our program uses a mid-infrared a…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 19 cited

Validation of semi-analytical, semi-empirical covariance matrices for two-point correlation function for Early DESI data

Michael Rashkovetskyi, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Jessica Nicole Aguilar +34

We present an extended validation of semi-analytical, semi-empirical covariance matrices for the two-point correlation function (2PCF) on simulated catalogs representative of Lumin…

astro-ph.GA2023

The DESI One-Percent survey: constructing galaxy-halo connections for ELGs and LRGs using auto and cross correlations

Hongyu Gao, Y. P. Jing, Shanquan Gui +31

In the current Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey, emission line galaxies (ELGs) and luminous red galaxies (LRGs) are essential for mapping the dark matter distribu…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

Changing-look Active Galactic Nuclei from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. I.Sample from the Early Data

Wei-Jian Guo, Hu Zou, Victoria Anne Fawcett +34

Changing-look Active Galactic Nuclei (CL AGN) can be generally confirmed by the emergence (turn-on) or disappearance (turn-off) of broad emission lines, associated with a transient…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 5 cited

Astrometric Calibration and Performance of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Focal Plane

S. Kent, E. Neilsen, K. Honscheid +46

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, consisting of 5020 robotic fiber positioners and associated systems on the Mayall telescope at Kitt Peak, Arizona, is carrying out a surve…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 9 cited

The DESI One-Percent Survey: Exploring the Halo Occupation Distribution of Luminous Red Galaxies and Quasi-Stellar Objects with AbacusSummit

Sihan Yuan, Hanyu Zhang, Ashley J. Ross +39

We present the first comprehensive Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) analysis of the DESI One-Percent survey Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) and Quasi-Stellar Object (QSO) samples. We c…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 15 cited

The Optical Corrector for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

Timothy N. Miller, Peter Doel, Gaston Gutierrez +44

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is currently measuring the spectra of 40\,million galaxies and quasars, the largest such survey ever made to probe the nature of cos…

astro-ph.SR2023

GTC Follow-up Observations of Very Metal-Poor Star Candidates from DESI

Carlos Allende Prieto, David S. Aguado, Jonay I. González Hernández +48

The observations from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will significantly increase the numbers of known extremely metal-poor stars by a factor of ~ 10, improving the…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 10 cited

The DESI One-Percent Survey: Modelling the clustering and halo occupation of all four DESI tracers with Uchuu

F. Prada, J. Ereza, A. Smith +44

We present results from a set of mock lightcones for the DESI One-Percent Survey, created from the Uchuu simulation. This This 8 (Gpc/h)^3 N-body simulation comprises 2.1 trillion…

astro-ph.CO2023

The DESI One-Percent Survey: Exploring A Generalized SHAM for Multiple Tracers with the UNIT Simulation

Jiaxi Yu, Cheng Zhao, Violeta Gonzalez-Perez +40

We perform SubHalo Abundance Matching (SHAM) studies on UNIT simulations with \{\}-SHAM and \{\}-SHAM. They are designe…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 2 cited

The Lyman- forest catalog from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Early Data Release

César Ramírez-Pérez, Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols, Andreu Font-Ribera +67

We present and validate the catalog of Lyman- forest fluctuations for 3D analyses using the Early Data Release (EDR) from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey.…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 49 cited

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument: One-dimensional power spectrum from first Lyman- forest samples with Fast Fourier Transform

Corentin Ravoux, Marie Lynn Abdul-Karim, Eric Armengaud +63

We present the one-dimensional Lyman- forest power spectrum measurement using the first data provided by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). The data sample compris…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 13 cited

Survey Operations for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

E. F. Schlafly, D. Kirkby, D. J. Schlegel +47

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey is a spectroscopic survey of tens of millions of galaxies at covering 14,000 square degrees of the sky. In its…

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.IM2023★ 57 cited

Performance of the Quasar Spectral Templates for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

Allyson Brodzeller, Kyle Dawson, Stephen Bailey +44

Millions of quasar spectra will be collected by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), leading to a four-fold increase in the number of known quasars. High accuracy quasa…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 34 cited

Constraining primordial non-Gaussianity from DESI quasar targets and Planck CMB lensing

Alex Krolewski, Will J. Percival, Simone Ferraro +33

We detect the cross-correlation between 2.7 million DESI quasar targets across 14,700 deg (180 quasars deg) and Planck 2018 CMB lensing at 30. We use the cross-…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 40 cited

DESI z >~ 5 Quasar Survey. I. A First Sample of 400 New Quasars at z ~ 4.7-6.6

Jinyi Yang, Xiaohui Fan, Ansh Gupta +39

We report the first results of a high-redshift ( >~ 5) quasar survey using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). As a DESI secondary target program, this survey is de…