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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The dark matter content of Milky Way dwarf spheroidal galaxies: Draco, Sextans and Ursa Minor
Hao Yang, Wenting Wang, Ling Zhu +50
The Milky Way Survey of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has so far observed three classical dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs): Draco, Sextans and Ursa Minor. Based…
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,…
Nearby stellar substructures in the Galactic halo from DESI Milky Way Survey Year 1 Data Release
Bokyoung Kim, Sergey E. Koposov, Ting S. Li +41
We report five nearby ( kpc) stellar substructures in the Galactic halo from a subset of 138,661 stars in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Mi…
The Cocytos Stream: A Disrupted Globular Cluster from our Last Major Merger?
Christian Aganze, Vedant Chandra, Risa H. Wechsler +48
The census of stellar streams and dwarf galaxies in the Milky Way provides direct constraints on galaxy formation models and the nature of dark matter. The DESI Milky Way survey --…
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-…
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…
Luminosity and stellar mass functions of faint photometric satellites around spectroscopic central galaxies from DESI Year-1 Bright Galaxy Survey
Wenting Wang, Xiaohu Yang, Yipeng Jing +47
We measure the luminosity functions (LFs) and stellar mass functions (SMFs) of photometric satellite galaxies around spectroscopically identified isolated central galaxies (ICGs).…
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…
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…
Exploring the interaction between the MW and LMC with a large sample of blue horizontal branch stars from the DESI survey
Amanda Byström, Sergey E. Koposov, Sophia Lilleengen +42
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a Milky Way (MW) satellite that is massive enough to gravitationally attract the MW disc and inner halo, causing significant motion of the inner…
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…