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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★ 1 cited

Electron temperature relations and the direct N, O, Ne, S and Ar abundances of 49959 star-forming galaxies in DESI Data Release 2

D. Scholte, F. Cullen, J. Moustakas +42

We present the largest direct-method abundance catalogue of galaxies to date, containing measurements of 49959 star-forming galaxies at z < 0.96 from DESI Data Release 2. By direct…

astro-ph.GA2025

Tracing the Cosmic Evolution of the Cool Circumgalactic Medium of Luminous Red Galaxies with DESI Year 1 Data

Yu-Ling Chang, Ting-Wen Lan, J. Xavier Prochaska +44

We investigate the properties of the cool circumgalactic medium (CGM) of massive galaxies and their cosmic evolution. By using the year 1 dataset of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) an…

astro-ph.GA2025

The DESI Single Fiber Lens Search. I. Four Thousand Spectroscopically Selected Galaxy-Galaxy Gravitational Lens Candidates

Juliana S. M. Karp, David J. Schlegel, Xiaosheng Huang +47

We present 4,110 strong gravitational lens candidates, 3,887 of which are new discoveries, selected from a sample of 5,837,154 luminous red galaxies (LRGs) observed with the Dark E…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Multi-Phase Circumgalactic Medium of DESI Emission-Line Galaxies at z~1.5

Ting-Wen Lan, J. Xavier Prochaska, J. Aguilar +39

We study the multi-phase circumgalactic medium (CGM) of emission line galaxies (ELGs) at , traced by MgII, and CIV, …

astro-ph.GA2025

DESI DR2 Galaxy Luminosity Functions

Samuel G. Moore, Shaun Cole, Michael Wilson +54

We present galaxy luminosity functions (LFs) for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) DR2 Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS) in the g,r,z, and w1 bands over 0.002<z<0.6. Our ana…

astro-ph.GA2025

Direct Measurement of Galaxy Assembly Bias using DESI DR1 Data

Zhiwei Shao, Ying Zu, Andrés N. Salcedo +54

We report the first direct measurement of galaxy assembly bias, a critical systematic in cosmology, from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Bright Galaxy Survey. We in…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Draco Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy in the First Year of DESI Data

J. Ding, C. Rockosi, Ting S. Li +40

We investigate the spatial distribution, kinematics, and metallicity of stars in the Draco dwarf spheroidal galaxy using data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI).…

astro-ph.GA2025

A New Way to Discover Strong Gravitational Lenses: Pair-wise Spectroscopic Search from DESI DR1

Yuan-Ming Hsu, Xiaosheng Huang, Christopher J. Storfer +47

We present a new method to search for strong gravitational lensing systems by pairing spectra that are close together on the sky in a spectroscopic survey. We visually inspect 26,6…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The mass of the Milky Way from outer halo stars measured by DESI DR1

Gustavo E. Medina, Ting S. Li, Gwendolyn M. Eadie +50

As a benchmark for galaxy evolution and dark matter studies, the total mass of the Milky Way is a parameter of cosmological significance, and its value at large radii from the Gala…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

DESI EDR: Calibrating the Tully-Fisher Relationship with the DESI Peculiar Velocity Survey

K. Douglass, S. BenZvi, N. Uberoi +45

We calibrate the Tully-Fisher relation (TFR) with data from the DESI Peculiar Velocity (PV) Survey taken during the Survey Validation (SV) period of the DESI galaxy redshift survey…

astro-ph.GA2025

DESI DR2 reference mocks: clustering results from Uchuu-BGS and LRG

E. Fernández-García, F. Prada, A. Smith +64

The aim of this work is to construct mock galaxy catalogues that accurately reproduce the redshift evolution of galaxy number density, clustering statistics, and baryonic propertie…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 6 cited

Beyond Traditional Diagnostics: Identifying Active Galactic Nuclei with Spectral Energy Distribution Fitting in DESI Data

M. Siudek, M. Mezcua, C. Circosta +36

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are typically identified through their distinctive X-ray or radio emissions, mid-infrared (MIR) colors, or emission lines. However, each method capture…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

DESI Emission-line Galaxies: Clustering Dependence on Stellar Mass and [OII] Luminosity

T. Hagen, K. S. Dawson, Z. Zheng +49

We measure the projected two-point correlation functions of emission-line galaxies (ELGs) from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) One-Percent Survey and model their de…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 12 cited

DESI Data Release 1: Stellar Catalogue

Sergey E. Koposov, Ting S. Li, C. Allende Prieto +65

In this paper we present the stellar Value-Added Catalogue (VAC) based on the DESI Data Release 1. This VAC contains stellar parameter, abundance and radial velocity measurements f…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The DESI Y1 RR Lyrae catalog II: The metallicity dependency of pulsational properties, the shape of the RR Lyrae instability strip, and metal rich RR Lyrae

Gustavo E. Medina, Ting S. Li, C. Allende Prieto +39

RR Lyrae stars (RRLs) are valuable probes of both Milky Way assembly and stellar-evolution physics. Using a sample 6,240 RRLs obtained in the first year of the Dark Energy Spectros…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The DESI Y1 RR Lyrae catalog I: Empirical modeling of the cyclic variation of spectroscopic properties and a chemodynamical analysis of the outer halo

Gustavo E. Medina, Ting S. Li, Sergey E. Koposov +44

We present the catalog of RR Lyrae stars (RRLs) observed in the first year of operations of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey. This catalog contains 6,240 RRLs…

astro-ph.GA2024

Tripling the Census of Dwarf AGN Candidates Using DESI Early Data

Ragadeepika Pucha, S. Juneau, Arjun Dey +46

Using early data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey, we search for AGN signatures in 410,757 line-emitting galaxies. By employing the BPT emission-line rat…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 31 cited

Value Added Catalog of physical properties of more than 1.3 million galaxies from the DESI Survey

M. Siudek, R. Pucha, M. Mezcua +50

Aims. We present an extensive catalog of the physical properties of more than a million galaxies within the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), one of the largest spectros…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

The atomic gas sequence and mass-metallicity relation from dwarfs to massive galaxies

D. Scholte, A. Saintonge, J. Moustakas +43

Galaxy scaling relations provide insights into the processes that drive galaxy evolution. The extension of these scaling relations into the dwarf galaxy regime is of particular int…

astro-ph.GA2024

Tracing the evolution of the cool gas in CGM and IGM environments through Mg II absorption from redshift z=0.75 to z=1.65 using DESI-Y1 data

X. Wu, Z. Cai, T. -W. Lan +35

We present a measurement of the mean absorption of cool gas traced by Mg II () around emission line galaxies (ELGs), spanning spatial scales from 20 kpc to 10 Mpc.…

astro-ph.GA2024

Probing the impact of radio-mode feedback on the properties of the cool circumgalactic medium

Yu-Ling Chang, Ting-Wen Lan, J. Xavier Prochaska +33

We explore the influence of radio-mode feedback on the properties of the cool circumgalactic medium (CGM). To this end, we assemble a statistical sample of approximately 30,000 rad…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

Identifying Quasars from the DESI Bright Galaxy Survey

S. Juneau, R. Canning, D. M. Alexander +56

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) cosmology survey includes a Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS) which will yield spectra for over ten million bright galaxies (r<20.2 AB mag)…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

A Large Sample of Extremely Metal-poor Galaxies at Identified from the DESI Early Data

Hu Zou, Jipeng Sui, Amélie Saintonge +32

Extremely metal-poor galaxies (XMPGs) at relatively low redshift are excellent laboratories for studying galaxy formation and evolution in the early universe. Much effort has been…