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most citedDESI 2024 III: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from Galaxies and Quasars

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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.GA2025

The Composite Spectrum of QSO Absorption Line Systems in DESI DR2

Lucas Napolitano, Adam D. Myers, Adam Tedeschi +43

We present details regarding a composite spectrum of quasar (QSO) absorption line systems. In this composite spectrum we identify more than 70 absorption lines, and observe oxygen…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

The Binary Fraction of Stars in the Dwarf Galaxy Ursa Minor via Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

Tian Qiu, Wenting Wang, Sergey Koposov +45

We utilize multi-epoch line-of-sight velocity measurements from the Milky Way Survey of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument to estimate the binary fraction for member stars in…

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.IM2025★ 1 cited

A Semi-Supervised Learning Method for the Identification of Bad Exposures in Large Imaging Surveys

Yufeng Luo, Adam D. Myers, Alex Drlica-Wagner +7

As the data volume of astronomical imaging surveys rapidly increases, traditional methods for image anomaly detection, such as visual inspection by human experts, are becoming impr…

astro-ph.CO2025

Reconstructing Quasar Spectra and Measuring the Ly Forest with

ChangHoon Hahn, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Peter Melchior +37

Quasar spectra carry the imprint of foreground intergalactic medium (IGM) through absorption features. In particular, absorption caused by neutral hydrogen gas, the ``Ly forest,…

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.GA2025

A Comprehensive Characterization of Galaxy-cool CGM Connections at with DESI Year 1 Data

Yu Voon Ng, Ting-Wen Lan, J. Xavier Prochaska +41

We investigate the relationships between the cool circumgalactic medium (CGM), traced by Ca II absorption lines, and galaxy properties at using galaxy-quasa…

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.GA2025

Iron-corrected Single-epoch Black Hole Masses of DESI Quasars at low redshift

Zhiwei Pan, Linhua Jiang, Wei-Jian Guo +31

We present a study on the possible overestimation of single-epoch supermassive black hole (SMBH) masses in previous works, based on more than 55,000 type 1 quasars at $0.25 < z < 0…