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DESI Mg II Absorbers: Extinction Characteristics & Quasar Redshift Accuracy
Lucas Napolitano, Adam D. Myers, Vicky Fawcett +32
In this paper, we study how absorption-line systems affect the spectra and redshifts of quasars (QSOs), using catalogs of Mg II absorbers from the early data release (EDR) and firs…
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…
Stellar reddening map from DESI imaging and spectroscopy
Rongpu Zhou, Julien Guy, Sergey E. Koposov +54
We present new Galactic dust reddening maps of the high Galactic latitude sky using DESI imaging and spectroscopy. We directly measure the reddening of 2.6 million stars by compari…
Measuring using DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys Emission-Line Galaxies and Planck CMB Lensing and the Impact of Dust on Parameter Inference
Tanveer Karim, Sukhdeep Singh, Mehdi Rezaie +39
Measuring the growth of structure is a powerful probe for studying the dark sector, especially in light of the tension between primary CMB anisotropy and low-redshift surveys…
CircleZ: Reliable Photometric redshifts for AGN computed using only photometry from Legacy Survey Imaging for DESI
A. Saxena, M. Salvato, W. Roster +25
(abridged)Photometric redshifts for AGN (galaxies hosting an accreting supermassive black hole in their center) are notoriously challenging and currently better computed via SED fi…
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…
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,…
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-…
The MOST Hosts Survey: spectroscopic observation of the host galaxies of ~40,000 transients using DESI
Maayane T. Soumagnac, Peter Nugent, Robert A. Knop +54
We present the MOST Hosts survey (Multi-Object Spectroscopy of Transient Hosts). The survey is planned to run throughout the five years of operation of the Dark Energy Spectroscopi…
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 $\…
Impact and mitigation of spectroscopic systematics on DESI DR1 clustering measurements
A. Krolewski, J. Yu, A. J. Ross +40
The large scale structure catalogs within DESI Data Release 1 (DR1) use nearly 6 million galaxies and quasars as tracers of the large-scale structure of the universe to measure the…
ELG Spectroscopic Systematics Analysis of the DESI Data Release 1
Jiaxi Yu, Ashley J. Ross, Antoine Rocher +58
Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) uses more than 2.4 million Emission Line Galaxies (ELGs) for 3D large-scale structure (LSS) analyses in its Data Release 1 (DR1). Such l…
The Construction of Large-scale Structure Catalogs for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
A. J. Ross, J. Aguilar, S. Ahlen +83
We present the technical details on how large-scale structure (LSS) catalogs are constructed from redshifts measured from spectra observed by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrume…
Production of Alternate Realizations of DESI Fiber Assignment for Unbiased Clustering Measurement in Data and Simulations
J. Lasker, A. Carnero Rosell, A. D. Myers +52
A critical requirement of spectroscopic large scale structure analyses is correcting for selection of which galaxies to observe from an isotropic target list. This selection is oft…
Full Modeling and Parameter Compression Methods in configuration space for DESI 2024 and beyond
S. Ramirez-Solano, M. Icaza-Lizaola, H. E. Noriega +49
In the contemporary era of high-precision spectroscopic surveys, led by projects like DESI, there is an increasing demand for optimizing the extraction of cosmological information…
Optimal Reconstruction of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations for DESI 2024
E. Paillas, Z. Ding, X. Chen +73
Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) provide a robust standard ruler to measure the expansion history of the Universe through galaxy clustering. Density-field reconstruction is now a…
HOD-Dependent Systematics in Emission Line Galaxies for the DESI 2024 BAO analysis
C. Garcia-Quintero, J. Mena-Fernández, A. Rocher +73
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will provide precise measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) to constrain the expansion history of the Universe and set s…
DESI 2024 III: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from Galaxies and Quasars
DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +193
We present the DESI 2024 galaxy and quasar baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) measurements using over 5.7 million unique galaxy and quasar redshifts in the range 0.1<z<2.1. Divided…
An analysis of parameter compression and full-modeling techniques with Velocileptors for DESI 2024 and beyond
M. Maus, S. Chen, M. White +52
In anticipation of forthcoming data releases of current and future spectroscopic surveys, we present the validation tests and analysis of systematic effects within \texttt{velocile…
Validating the Galaxy and Quasar Catalog-Level Blinding Scheme for the DESI 2024 analysis
U. Andrade, J. Mena-Fernández, H. Awan +60
In the era of precision cosmology, ensuring the integrity of data analysis through blinding techniques is paramount -- a challenge particularly relevant for the Dark Energy Spectro…
Comparing Compressed and Full-modeling Analyses with FOLPS: Implications for DESI 2024 and beyond
H. E. Noriega, A. Aviles, H. Gil-Marín +51
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will provide unprecedented information about the large-scale structure of our Universe. In this work, we study the robustness of the…
Suppressing the sample variance of DESI-like galaxy clustering with fast simulations
Z. Ding, A. Variu, S. Alam +44
Ongoing and upcoming galaxy redshift surveys, such as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey, will observe vast regions of sky and a wide range of redshifts. In ord…
Emission Line Predictions for Mock Galaxy Catalogues: a New Differentiable and Empirical Mapping from DESI
Ashod Khederlarian, Jeffrey A. Newman, Brett H. Andrews +43
We present a simple, differentiable method for predicting emission line strengths from rest-frame optical continua using an empirically-determined mapping. Extensive work has been…
HOD-Dependent Systematics for Luminous Red Galaxies in the DESI 2024 BAO Analysis
J. Mena-Fernández, C. Garcia-Quintero, S. Yuan +72
In this paper, we present the estimation of systematics related to the halo occupation distribution (HOD) modeling in the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) distance measurement of…