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astro-ph.CO2025

Probing the environment around GW170817 with DESI: insights on galaxy group peculiar velocities for standard siren measurements

A. J. Amsellem, A. Palmese, K. Douglass +56

We present a new measurement of the Hubble constant, , following the gravitational wave event GW170817 and Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) observations. A standard…

astro-ph.CO2025

The DESI DR1 Peculiar Velocity Survey: Mock Catalog

J. Bautista, A. J. Amsellem, V. Aronica +59

We describe the production of the official set of mock catalogs for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Peculiar Velocity Survey (DESI-PV) Data Release 1 (DR1). Our mock catal…

astro-ph.CO2025

The DESI DR1 Peculiar Velocity Survey: The Tully-Fisher Distance Catalog

K. Douglass, S. BenZvi, A. G. Kim +64

We calibrate the Tully-Fisher relation (TFR) using observations of spiral galaxies taken during the first year (DR1) of the DESI galaxy redshift survey. The rotational velocities o…

astro-ph.GA2025

The DESI Single Fiber Lens Search. I. Four Thousand Spectroscopically Selected Galaxy-Galaxy Gravitational Lens Candidates

Juliana S. M. Karp, David J. Schlegel, Xiaosheng Huang +47

We present 4,110 strong gravitational lens candidates, 3,887 of which are new discoveries, selected from a sample of 5,837,154 luminous red galaxies (LRGs) observed with the Dark E…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

The DESI DR1 Peculiar Velocity Survey: global zero-point and constraints

A. Carr, C. Howlett, A. J. Amsellem +55

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) in its first Data Release (DR1) already provides more than 100,000 galaxies with relative distance measurements. The primary purpose…

astro-ph.CO2025

The DESI DR1 peculiar velocity survey: growth rate measurements from the galaxy power spectrum

F. Qin, C. Blake, C. Howlett +63

The large-scale structure of the Universe and its evolution encapsulate a wealth of cosmological information. A powerful means of unlocking this knowledge lies in measuring the aut…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

The DESI DR1 Peculiar Velocity Survey: growth rate measurements from galaxy and momentum correlation functions

R. J. Turner, C. Blake, F. Qin +61

Joint analysis of the local peculiar velocity and galaxy density fields offers a promising route to testing cosmological models of gravity. We present a measurement of the normalis…

astro-ph.CO2025

The DESI DR1 Peculiar Velocity Survey: Fundamental Plane Catalogue

C. E. Ross, C. Howlett, J. R. Lucey +58

Measurements of peculiar velocities in the local Universe are a powerful tool to study the nature of dark energy at low () redshifts. Here we present the largest single se…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Multi-Phase Circumgalactic Medium of DESI Emission-Line Galaxies at z~1.5

Ting-Wen Lan, J. Xavier Prochaska, J. Aguilar +39

We study the multi-phase circumgalactic medium (CGM) of emission line galaxies (ELGs) at , traced by MgII, and CIV, …

astro-ph.CO2025

A measurement of from DESI DR1 using energy densities

Alex Krolewski, Andrea Crespi, Will J. Percival +57

We present a new measurement of the Hubble constant, independent of standard rulers and robust to pre-recombination modifications such as Early Dark Energy (EDE), obtained by calib…

astro-ph.GA2025

Direct Measurement of Galaxy Assembly Bias using DESI DR1 Data

Zhiwei Shao, Ying Zu, Andrés N. Salcedo +54

We report the first direct measurement of galaxy assembly bias, a critical systematic in cosmology, from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Bright Galaxy Survey. We in…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Draco Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy in the First Year of DESI Data

J. Ding, C. Rockosi, Ting S. Li +40

We investigate the spatial distribution, kinematics, and metallicity of stars in the Draco dwarf spheroidal galaxy using data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI).…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 4 cited

Without the Sound Horizon (or Supernovae): A 2% Measurement in DESI DR1

E. A. Zaborowski, P. Taylor, K. Honscheid +58

The sound horizon scale is a key source of information for early-time measurements, and is therefore a common target of new physics proposed to solve the Hubble tension…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

DESI Strong Lens Foundry II: DESI Spectroscopy for Strong Lens Candidates

Xiaosheng Huang, Jose Carlos Inchausti, Christopher J. Storfer +59

We present the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Strong Lensing Secondary Target Program. This is a spectroscopic follow-up program for strong gravitational lens candidat…

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

DESI Strong Lens Foundry III: Keck Spectroscopy for Strong Lenses Discovered Using Residual Neural Networks

Shrihan Agarwal, Xiaosheng Huang, William Sheu +49

We present spectroscopic data of strong lenses and their source galaxies using the Keck Near-Infrared Echellette Spectrometer (NIRES) and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (…

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

Strong Lens Discoveries in DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys DR10 with Two Deep Learning Architectures

Jose Carlos Inchausti, Christopher J. Storfer, Xiaosheng Huang +11

We have conducted a search for strong gravitational lensing systems in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Surveys Data Release 10 (DR10). This paper is…

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

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.GA2025

ODIN: The LAE Lyα Luminosity Function over Cosmic Time and Environmental Density

Gautam Nagaraj, Robin Ciardullo, Caryl Gronwall +53

The ubiquity and relative ease of discovery make Ly emitting galaxies (LAEs) ideal tracers for cosmology. In addition, because Ly is a resonance line,…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

Spectroscopic Characterization of redMaPPer Galaxy Clusters with DESI

J. Myles, D. Gruen, T. Jeltema +44

Optical galaxy cluster identification algorithms such as redMaPPer promise to enable an array of astrophysical and cosmological studies, but suffer from biases whereby galaxies in…

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.GA2025★ 2 cited

DESI Emission-line Galaxies: Clustering Dependence on Stellar Mass and [OII] Luminosity

T. Hagen, K. S. Dawson, Z. Zheng +49

We measure the projected two-point correlation functions of emission-line galaxies (ELGs) from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) One-Percent Survey and model their de…