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

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astro-ph.CO2026

Sizing the Universe with DESI Galaxy Sizes: Plain Fundamentals of Fundamental-Plane Lensing

Kun Xu, Jiaqi Wang, Ravi K. Sheth +44

Weak gravitational lensing provides a powerful way to map cosmic structure, but most current measurements rely on galaxy shape distortions from deep imaging surveys and are affecte…

astro-ph.GA2026

Linking neutral gas inflows and outflows to offsets in the star-forming main sequence and mass-metallicity relation

S. Weng, M. Pieri, A. Saintonge +40

Gas inflows and outflows regulate galaxy growth, but direct observational links between measured gas flows and galaxy scaling relations remain limited. Using ~6,000 star-forming ga…

astro-ph.CO2026

A Unified Tracer Analysis of DESI DR2 Baryon Acoustic Oscillations

N. Sanders, H. Seo, M. Rashkovetskyi +65

We improve upon previous efforts to optimally combine overlapping galaxy samples in the DESI baryon acoustic oscillation analysis. By weighting each galaxy by its linear bias, over…

astro-ph.CO2026

Lyman Break Galaxy selection and redshift measurement with supervised contrastive learning

J. Choppin de Janvry, C. Yèche, Arjun Dey +55

Some of the next steps for high-precision cosmology lie within the high-redshift, high-density universe. Spectroscopic survey experiments such as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Inst…

astro-ph.CO2026

Validation of the DESI DR2 Ly forest full-shape analysis

M. Herbold, A. Cuceu, P. Martini +100

We present the validation of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 2 (DR2) Lyman- (Ly) forest full-shape analysis. This analysis combines three-dimensi…

astro-ph.CO2026

DESI DR2 Results IV: Alcock-Paczyński Measurements from the Lyman Alpha Forest and Cosmological Constraints

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +152

We present Alcock-Paczyński (AP) measurements from the full shape of Lyman- (Ly) forest correlation functions measured from the second data release (DR2) of the Dark Energy S…

astro-ph.CO2026

Lyman- forest holography: 3D predictions from 1D measurements

J. Chaves-Montero, A. Font-Ribera, J. Aguilar +68

Cosmological analyses of Lyman- forest clustering rely on either one-dimensional correlations along individual sightlines or three-dimensional correlations between different sig…

astro-ph.CO2026

Clustering of high-redshift quasars with DESI DR2

M. Charles, P. Martini, A. J. Ross +46

We present clustering measurements for high-redshift quasars using data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Data Release 2. Our sample consists of quasars with $2.0 < z <…

astro-ph.CO2026

The 3D clustering of Lyman Alpha Emitters measured with DESI

Haruki Ebina, Martin J. White, Rongpu Zhou +44

We present a clustering analysis of Lyman- emitters (LAEs) using spectroscopic observations from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) of candidates selected from the…

astro-ph.CO2026

Measuring local primordial non-Gaussianity from the clustering of DESI DR1 LRGs and QSOs

Z. Brown, B. Levi, H. Randall +42

We report the first measurement of primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG), parameterized by , in the configuration space two-point correlation function (2pcf). We employ…

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Peering down the barrel with DESI DR2: 10 000+ inflows at < 0.6 reveal how galaxies accrete cold gas

S. Weng, A. Saintonge, M. Pieri +39

Direct observational constraints on how galaxies acquire their gas remain remarkably limited, hindering our understanding of the baryon cycle. We present a search for down-the-barr…

astro-ph.IM2026

Quality Assessment of Spectroscopic Data Reduction Pipelines Using Artificial Intelligence: Scrutinizing Data Release 2 from the DESI Survey

V. Torres-Gomez, J. Suarez-Perez, J. E. Forero-Romero +45

Large spectroscopic surveys now collect data at a scale that makes traditional visual inspection impractical. We present an unsupervised pipeline for spectroscopic quality assessme…

astro-ph.CO2026

DESI Data Release 2 ELGs: Property-dependent subsamples, imaging systematics, and clustering

T. Hagen, K. S. Dawson, Z. Zheng +42

Using emission-line galaxies (ELGs) from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 2, we evaluate a property-dependent correction to imaging systematics. We deri…

astro-ph.CO2026

Tomography of the gamma-ray sky from cross-correlation with DESI DR2 and unWISE galaxies

Alex Krolewski, Neal Dalal, Will J. Percival +39

We study the origin of extragalactic gamma-ray emission observed by Fermi-LAT, using the cross-correlation of the gamma-ray sky with maps of large-scale structure provided by the D…

astro-ph.GA2026

Joint Modeling of GD-1 and C-19 as Old Streams

Raymond G. Carlberg, Ting S. Li, Emma Jarvis +39

DESI observational data for the GD-1 and C-19 streams are compared to stream simulations in an evolving multi-halo potential of a Milky Way-like galaxy based on a cosmological Milk…

astro-ph.GA2026

Mapping the nuclear environments of extreme coronal line emitting galaxies

Daniel Kynoch, Or Graur, Peter Clark +30

Extreme coronal line emitters (ECLEs) are a rare class of galactic nuclei exhibiting unusually strong high-ionisation forbidden emission lines, and several ECLEs have been linked t…

astro-ph.GA2026

A New Record Census of Dwarf AGN and a Bimodal - Scaling Relation with DESI DR1

Ragadeepika Pucha, S. Juneau, M. Mezcua +48

Using the first spectroscopic data release from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI DR1), we conduct the largest systematic search for active galactic nuclei (AGN) signa…

astro-ph.CO2026

Testing Scale-Dependent Modified Gravity with DESI DR1

D. Gonzalez, G. Niz, A. Aviles +42

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) provides an unprecedented opportunity to test deviations from general relativity (GR) that introduce a new physical scale within its…

astro-ph.GA2026

Characterizing the GD-1 Stream with DESI DR2 Data: Thin Stream and Hot Cocoon

Emma Jarvis, Ting S. Li, Sergey E. Koposov +54

GD-1 is among the longest, coldest stellar streams in the Milky Way, making it an ideal target for probing dark matter substructure through dynamical heating. We present a catalog…

astro-ph.CO2026

Precision Kinematic Sunyaev--Zel'dovich Measurements Across Halo Mass and Redshift with DESI DR2 and ACT DR6: Part II. Bright Galaxy Survey and Emission-Line Galaxies

B. Hadzhiyska, S. Ferraro, F. J. Qu +50

We present the first high-significance spectroscopic stacked kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) measurements of circumgalactic gas profiles for both Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS) and Em…

astro-ph.CO2026

FolpsD: combining EFT and phenomenological approaches for joint power spectrum and bispectrum analyses

P. Bansal, A. Aviles, H. E. Noriega +56

We present a theoretical model for the power spectrum and bispectrum of galaxy clustering that exploits the complementarity between small-scale power spectrum information and large…

astro-ph.IM2026

Deep Spectroscopy with DESI for Photometric Redshift Training and Calibration

Biprateep Dey, Jeffrey A. Newman, Tianqing Zhang +62

Deep spectroscopic samples can be used to improve photometric redshift (photo-) estimates and reduce uncertainties on redshift distributions. Such improvements can increase the…

astro-ph.CO2026

Local primordial non-Gaussianity using cross-correlations of DESI tracers

A. J. Rosado-Marín, A. J. Ross, H. Seo +46

We constrain local primordial non-Gaussianity by a combined analysis of auto and cross-correlations of DESI DR1 tracers, leveraging LRGs and QSOs as well as ELGs between $0.8<z<3.1…

astro-ph.CO2026

Measurement of the galaxy-velocity power spectrum of DESI tracers with the kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect using DESI DR2 and ACT DR6

Edmond Chaussidon, Selim C. Hotinli, Simone Ferraro +49

Joint analyses of high-resolution CMB temperature maps with galaxy surveys provide a unique way to reconstruct the radial velocity field of the underlying matter distribution via t…