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

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astro-ph.GA2026

The Binary Fraction of Milky Way Field Stars in DESI: Dependence on Chemical Abundance

Tian Qiu, Wenting Wang, Sergey E. Koposov +39

Binary populations encode information about the physical conditions of star formation and the subsequent evolution of stellar populations. Adopting a statistical method based on mu…

astro-ph.CO2026

Field-level inference of growth rate from DESI BGS galaxy and ZTF supernova simulations

Corentin Ravoux, Bastien Carreres, Julian Bautista +60

Galaxy peculiar velocities are a powerful probe of the growth rate of structure at low redshifts (), measured through the combination . These constraints are imp…

astro-ph.CO2026

Model-Independent Measurement of Baryon Gas Fractions through Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing and the Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect

R. Henry Liu, Uroš Seljak, Simone Ferraro +52

Baryon feedback is a leading source of systematic uncertainty for cosmology from weak lensing, but measurements of the gas distribution around galaxies have largely relied on param…

astro-ph.GA2026

Luminosity function of quasars at from SDSS and DESI

Gaocheng Yin, Linhua Jiang, Zhiwei Pan +54

We present a study of the evolution of type 1 quasars at , covering the peak epoch of quasar activity. The quasar evolution has been extensively explored by a variety of…

astro-ph.GA2026

Cosmic Pairs: A DESI Census of Dual and Offset AGN as Precursors to Massive Black Hole Binaries

Ekaterine Dadiani, Antonella Palmese, Yihao Zhou +52

We present a systematic census of dual and offset active galactic nuclei (AGN) using spectroscopic data from the first data release (DR1) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrumen…

astro-ph.GA2026

Stacked Reverberation Mapping of High Redshift Quasars in DESI. I. Feasibility Analysis

Rahma Alfarsy, R. E. A. Canning, Eva-Maria Mueller +49

The broad line region of quasars has long been probed by reverberation mapping techniques that measure time lags between continuum and broad emission line variations. Stacked rever…

astro-ph.CO2026

Alleviating prior dependencies for DESI DR1 clustering fits through reparameterization

Marco Bonici, Simone Paradiso, Glenn McGee +48

Bayesian analyses of the full-shape clustering of Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 1 (DR1) exhibit prior-volume projection effects, whereby weakly constrain…

astro-ph.GA2026

Disentangling the Distant Stellar Halo Using K-Giants in the DESI Year 3 Data

Namitha Kizhuprakkat, Andrew P. Cooper, Wenting Wang +42

We present a sample of 88,959 K-giants from DESI Milky Way Survey Year 3 data, which we use to characterize the chemo-dynamical properties of the stellar halo at Galactocentric dis…

astro-ph.HE2026

The DESI Transients Survey: Legacy Classifications and Methodology

Xander J. Hall, Antonella Palmese, Segev BenZvi +56

We present the first systematic spectroscopic observations of extragalactic transients from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), as part of the DESI Transients Survey p…

astro-ph.HE2026

Early results in the search for extreme coronal line emitters with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

Peter Clark, Joseph Callow, Or Graur +44

Here we present the results of our search through the Early Data Release (EDR) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) for extreme coronal line emitters (ECLEs) - a rare…

astro-ph.GA2026

Signatures of a Tidally Induced Spiral Arm at the Anticenter of the Milky Way and a Kinematically Extended Anticenter Stream Using DESI DR2

Mika Lambert, Constance M. Rockosi, Sergey E. Koposov +46

Using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Milky Way Survey (DESI MWS), we examine the 6D space of the anticenter region of the stellar disk (150 Galactic longitude…

astro-ph.CO2025

The Power of DESI for Photometric Redshift Calibration: A Case Study with KiDS-1000

Diana Blanco, Alexie Leauthaud, Johannes Ulf Lange +64

Accurate redshift estimates are a critical requirement for weak lensing surveys and one of the main uncertainties in constraints on dark energy and large-scale cosmic structure. In…

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.GA2025

The Milky Way stellar halo is twisted and doubly broken: insights from DESI DR2 Milky Way Survey observation

Songting Li, Wenting Wang, Sergey E. Koposov +45

Using K giants from the second data release (DR2) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Milky Way (MW) Survey, we measure the shape, orientation, radial profile, and d…

astro-ph.CO2025

Baryon fraction from the BAO amplitude: a consistent approach to parameterizing perturbation growth

Andrea Crespi, Will J. Percival, Alex Krolewski +51

Galaxy clustering constrains the baryon fraction Omega_b/Omega_m through the amplitude of baryon acoustic oscillations and the suppression of perturbations entering the horizon bef…

astro-ph.GA2025

Effect of local environment on Ly line profile in DESI/ODIN LAEs

Ana Sofía M. Uzsoy, Arjun Dey, Anand Raichoor +51

Lyman-Alpha Emitters (LAEs) are star-forming galaxies with significant Ly emission and are often used as tracers of large-scale structure at high redshift. We explore the relati…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

Galaxy-Multiplet Clustering from DESI DR2

Hanyue Wang, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Jessica Nicole Aguilar +44

We present an efficient estimator for higher-order galaxy clustering using small groups of nearby galaxies, or multiplets. Using the Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) sample from the Dark…

astro-ph.GA2025

Quasars acting as Strong Lenses Found in DESI DR1

Everett McArthur, Martin Millon, Meredith Powell +52

Quasars acting as strong gravitational lenses offer a rare opportunity to probe the redshift evolution of scaling relations between supermassive black holes and their host galaxies…

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.CO2025

Detection of the Pairwise Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect and Pairwise Velocity with DESI DR1 Galaxies and ACT DR6 and Planck CMB Data

Yulin Gong, Patricio A. Gallardo, Rachel Bean +50

We present a 9.3-sigma detection of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) effect by combining a sample of 913,286 Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from the Dark Energy Spectro…

astro-ph.GA2025

ODIN: Characterizing the Three-dimensional Structure of Two Protocluster Complexes at

Vandana Ramakrishnan, Ashley Ortiz, Byeongha Moon +52

We present a detailed study of the 3D morphology of two extended associations of multiple protoclusters at . These protocluster 'complexes', designated COSMOS-z3.1-A and COS…

astro-ph.HE2025

AT2025ulz and S250818k: Leveraging DESI spectroscopy in the hunt for a kilonova associated with a sub-solar mass gravitational wave candidate

Xander J. Hall, Antonella Palmese, Brendan O'Connor +47

On August 18th, 2025, the LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA collaboration reported a sub-threshold gravitational wave candidate detection consistent with a sub-solar-mass neutron star merger, den…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Dwarf galaxy halo masses from spectroscopic and photometric lensing in DESI and DES

Helena Treiber, Alexandra Amon, Risa H. Wechsler +46

We present the most precise and lowest-mass weak lensing measurements of dwarf galaxies to date, enabled by spectroscopic lenses from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI…