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most citedDESI DR2 Results II: Measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations and Cosmological Constraints

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astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.CO2026

Probing Baryons with the Kinematic Sunyae Zel'dovich Effect and Machine Learning Derived Peculiar Velocities using DESI DR2 and ACT DR6

Yulin Gong, Rachel Bean, Patricio A. Gallardo +54

We present novel empirical constraints on average optical depths and gas density profiles from combining kinematic Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect (kSZ) measurements and nonlinear peculi…

astro-ph.CO2026

Intrinsic Tidal Shear at the Largest Scales: Galaxy Multiplet Alignment in DESI DR2

C. Lamman, J. Aguilar, S. Ahlen +45

We measure the intrinsic alignment (IA) of galaxy multiplets with the large-scale tidal field traced by galaxy positions in DESI Data Release 2. Using the BGS, LRG, and ELG samples…

astro-ph.CO2026

Optical Depths from the Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect with ACT DR6 and DESI DR1 Spectroscopic Galaxies and Optically-Selected Clusters

J. E. Moore, C. Popik, Y. Gong +66

We present stacked thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect measurements for three samples of galaxy groups and clusters: those traced by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Da…

astro-ph.CO2026

A Finely-Binned Measurement of the Connected Even-Parity Galaxy 4-Point Correlation Function of DESI Year 1 Luminous Red Galaxies

William Ortolá Leonard, Alex Krolewski, Zachary Slepian +46

We present the connected even-parity galaxy 4-Point Correlation Function (4PCF) of DESI Year 1 (Y1) Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs). This is one of the first measurements of the conne…

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

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…

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.GA2026

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…

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

CoLoRe-2LPT: Lyman- mock catalogues for the validation of DESI cosmological analyses

M. F. Ruiz-Herrera Bernal, S. Avila, A. Font-Ribera +90

The Lyman- (Ly) forest has become a crucial probe for studying the large-scale structure of the universe at high redshift (), providing powerful constraints on Baryon…

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.SR2026

1000 cataclysmic variables identified from DESI spectroscopy

K. Inight, B. T. Gänsicke, A. Aungwerojwit +41

Most cataclysmic variables (CVs) are discovered when they have an outburst generating an inherent selection bias against CVs that rarely, or never, outburst. CVs discovered by virt…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.CO2026

DESI DR2 Reference Mocks: Clustering results from UCHUU ELGs and QSOs

R. Vaisakh, J. Lasker, R. Kehoe +44

High-redshift galaxy clustering provides a powerful probe of the growth of structure, testing models of dark matter, dark energy, and galaxy formation during the epoch when the Uni…

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.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.GA2026

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…