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Field-Level Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Reconstruction of the DESI DR1 Luminous Red Galaxies with Linear Field Transformer (LiFT)
Liam Parker, Uroš Seljak, Adrian E. Bayer +2
We present the first application of neural field-level baryon-acoustic oscillation (BAO) reconstruction to real spectroscopic survey data. We develop Linear Field Transformer (LiFT…
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…
Chemo-dynamical reconstruction of Milky Way globular cluster progenitors: Age-metallicity relations and the universality of multiple stellar populations
Carmela Lardo, David Valcin, Raul Jimenez
Globular clusters encode the hierarchical assembly history of the Milky Way and the physics of multiple stellar populations. Using homogeneous stellar parameters for 69 Galactic gl…
Field-Level Inference from Galaxies: BAO Reconstruction
Adrian E. Bayer, Liam Parker, David Valcin +3
Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) underpin the key cosmological results from modern spectroscopic galaxy surveys, but nonlinear gravitational evolution limits the precision achiev…
The Age of the Universe with Globular Clusters IV: Multiple Stellar Populations
David Valcin, Raul Jimenez, Carmela Lardo +2
We revisit the determination of the age of the Universe from galactic globular clusters, extending previous analyses by explicitly accounting for the presence of multiple stellar p…
Full calibration of the tomographic redshift distribution from the HSC PDR3 Shape Catalog with DESI
J. Choppin de Janvry, S. Gontcho A Gontcho, U. Seljak +53
The calibration of tomographic redshift distributions is essential for cosmological analysis of weak lensing data. In this work, we calibrate all four tomographic bins of the Hyper…
Combined tracer analysis for DESI 2024 BAO
D. Valcin, M. Rashkovetskyi, H. Seo +64
This paper demonstrates how the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 1 (DR1) and future baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) analyses can optimally combine overla…
The Age of the Universe with Globular Clusters III: Gaia distances and hierarchical modeling
David Valcin, Raul Jimenez, Uroš Seljak +1
This is the third article in a series aimed at computing accurate and precise ages of galactic globular clusters from their full color-magnitude diagram in order to estimate the ag…
DESI 2024 VII: Cosmological Constraints from the Full-Shape Modeling of Clustering Measurements
DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +210
We present cosmological results from the measurement of clustering of galaxy, quasar and Lyman- forest tracers from the first year of observations with the Dark Energy Spectrosc…
DESI 2024 II: Sample Definitions, Characteristics, and Two-point Clustering Statistics
DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +200
We present the samples of galaxies and quasars used for DESI 2024 cosmological analyses, drawn from the DESI Data Release 1 (DR1). We describe the construction of large-scale struc…
Extensive analysis of reconstruction algorithms for DESI 2024 baryon acoustic oscillations
X. Chen, Z. Ding, E. Paillas +64
Reconstruction of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) signal has been a standard procedure in BAO analyses over the past decade and has helped to improve the BAO parameter precis…
DESI 2024 V: Full-Shape Galaxy Clustering from Galaxies and Quasars
A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar, S. Ahlen +195
We present the measurements and cosmological implications of the galaxy two-point clustering using over 4.7 million unique galaxy and quasar redshifts in the range divi…
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…
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…
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…
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…
DESI 2024 VI: Cosmological Constraints from the Measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations
DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +200
We present cosmological results from the measurement of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in galaxy, quasar and Lyman- forest tracers from the first year of observations from t…
DESI 2024 IV: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from the Lyman Alpha Forest
DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +196
We present the measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) from the Lyman- (Ly) forest of high-redshift quasars with the first-year dataset of the Dark Energy Spectrosc…
Validation of semi-analytical, semi-empirical covariance matrices for two-point correlation function for Early DESI data
Michael Rashkovetskyi, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Jessica Nicole Aguilar +34
We present an extended validation of semi-analytical, semi-empirical covariance matrices for the two-point correlation function (2PCF) on simulated catalogs representative of Lumin…
The Early Data Release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +266
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) completed its five-month Survey Validation in May 2021. Spectra of stellar and extragalactic targets from Survey Validation constitu…
Validation of the Scientific Program for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +261
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) was designed to conduct a survey covering 14,000 deg over five years to constrain the cosmic expansion history through precise m…
First Detection of the BAO Signal from Early DESI Data
Jeongin Moon, David Valcin, Michael Rashkovetskyi +65
We present the first detection of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) signal obtained using unblinded data collected during the initial two months of operations of the Stage-IV…
The trouble beyond and the new cosmic triangles
José Luis Bernal, Licia Verde, Raul Jimenez +3
The distance ladder using supernovae yields higher values of the Hubble constant than those inferred from measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and galaxy sur…
The Age of the Universe with Globular Clusters: Reducing Systematic Uncertainties
David Valcin, Raul Jimenez, Licia Verde +2
The dominant systematic uncertainty in the age determination of galactic globular clusters is the depth of the convection envelope of the stars. This parameter is partially degener…