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Self Calibrated Galaxy Groups from the DESI DR1 Bright Galaxy Survey

I. Williams, J. Tinker, K. Wang +45

We present a galaxy group catalog built from Data Release 1 of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Bright Galaxy Survey, using the Self Calibrated Group Finder. The alg…

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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…

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Radio Quasars in the Cosmic Dawn: A Spectroscopic Sample from the DESI Survey

Anniek J. Gloudemans, Jinyi Yang, David M. Alexander +55

We present the largest statistical spectroscopic sample of radio quasars at 4.7<z<6.7 to date. These have been selected from a dedicated Dark Energy Survey Instrument (DESI) target…

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Extending the Stellar-to-Halo Mass Relation to Dwarf Galaxies with DESI DR1

Z. Shao, Y. Zu, A. Salcedo +51

Constraining the dark matter halos of the smallest galaxies offers fundamental insights into the nature of dark matter and stellar feedback. Using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Ins…

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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…

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Spatially-Resolved Spectra of Diffuse Galactic Light using 10.8 M DESI Sky Fibers

Andrew K. Saydjari, Bruce T. Draine, Timothy D. Brandt +49

Using 10.8 million ``blank'' sky spectra from the DESI Year 3 dataset, we measure the diffuse galactic light (DGL) spectrum in the optical at spectral resolution by c…

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Systematic uncertainties on DESI Tully-Fisher distances constrained with Integral Field Spectroscopy

Utsav Siwakoti, Lluis Galbany, Kelly A. Douglass +40

The Tully--Fisher (TF) relation is an empirical tool for estimating distances to spiral galaxies. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Peculiar Velocity (PV) Survey uses…

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Improved constraints on the Milky Way potential using the M68 stream and DESI spectroscopic data

Carles G. Palau, Wenting Wang, Jiaxin Han +41

We present a selection of stars belonging to the stellar stream of the M68 (NGC 4590) globular cluster, also known as Fjörm. This star selection is an improvement on previous ones…

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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…

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Quiescent Host Galaxies of Extended Quasars Revealed by Spectrophotometric Decomposition

Shengxiu Sun, Linhua Jiang, Zhiwei Pan +27

Previous works of low-redshift quasar host galaxies have focused on compact quasars and found that their host galaxies are mainly star-forming galaxies. Here we present a study of…

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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…

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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…

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Beyond traditional emission-line diagnostics: using autoencoders to uncover active galactic nuclei in DESI spectra

J. A. Alcolea, M. Siudek, M. Eriksen +49

The growing volume of spectroscopic data in modern surveys motivates data-driven approaches that complement traditional emission-line diagnostics for active galactic nuclei (AGN) i…

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Weak Evolution of Cosmic Atomic Hydrogen over the Past 4.5 Billion Years

Chuan-Peng Zhang, Hong Guo, Yizhou Gu +49

The cosmic star formation rate density (CSFRD) has declined sharply toward the present day, but the roles of the atomic and molecular gas reservoirs remain uncertain. We measure th…

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The largest sample of AGN outflows in dwarf galaxies using DESI DR1

V. Rodríguez Morales, M. Mezcua, Ragadeepika Pucha +40

In the last decade, the presence of active galactic nuclei (AGN) outflows and feedback in dwarf galaxies (<) has gained ground over supern…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Satellite Metallicity Enhancement I: Suppressed Star Formation, Stellar Mass Loss, and Enriched Inflow of DESI and EAGLE Galaxies around Massive Clusters

Yuanye Lin, Ying Zu, Jessica Nicole Aguilar +26

Environmental effects are a primary driver of elevated gas-phase metallicities in galaxies around massive clusters, but the underlying physical mechanisms for this satellite metall…

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Unveiling Hidden Lyman Alpha Emitters in the DESI DR1 Data

Jui-Kuan Chan, Ting-Wen Lan, J. Xavier Prochaska +39

We present an automatic method based on machine-learning convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture to detect Lyman alpha emitters (LAE) hidden in the Data Release 1 spectrosc…

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Constraining the Galactic bar using the M92 stellar stream

Amanda Byström, Sergey E. Koposov, Ting. S. Li +42

Stellar streams are excellent probes of the gravitational potential in which they evolve. In the Milky Way (MW), globular cluster (GC) streams are routinely used to infer propertie…

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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…