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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.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

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.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.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

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.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.CO2026

A Natural Telescope: Discovery of the Strongly Lensed Type II SN 2025mkn at

Cameron Lemon, Ariel Goobar, Joel Johansson +90

We present the discovery of SN 2025mkn, a gravitationally lensed Type II supernova. First detected as a blue transient in ZTF, 0.83 from a elliptical gala…

astro-ph.CO2026

First Detection of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) Feature in the 3-Point Correlation Function of DESI DR1 Luminous Red Galaxies

Farshad Kamalinejad, Zachary Slepian, Alex Krolewski +55

We present the first detection of the 3-Point Correlation Function (3PCF) Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) signal from the DESI Data Release 1 (DR1) sample of Luminous Red Galaxie…

astro-ph.CO2026

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from the C IV Forest with DESI DR2

Abby Bault, Andrei Cuceu, Julien Guy +53

We present a measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) in the cross-correlation of triply ionized carbon C IV absorption with the positions of quasars (QSO) and Emission Li…

astro-ph.CO2026

Cosmological analysis of the DESI DR1 Lyman alpha 1D power spectrum

J. Chaves-Montero, A. Font-Ribera, P. McDonald +63

We present the cosmological analysis of the one-dimensional Lyman- flux power spectrum from the first data release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). We capture…

astro-ph.CO2025

The Power of DESI for Photometric Redshift Calibration: A Case Study with KiDS-1000

Diana Blanco, Alexie Leauthaud, Johannes Ulf Lange +64

Accurate redshift estimates are a critical requirement for weak lensing surveys and one of the main uncertainties in constraints on dark energy and large-scale cosmic structure. In…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

Galaxy-Multiplet Clustering from DESI DR2

Hanyue Wang, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Jessica Nicole Aguilar +44

We present an efficient estimator for higher-order galaxy clustering using small groups of nearby galaxies, or multiplets. Using the Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) sample from the Dark…

astro-ph.CO2025

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…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

DESI Strong Lens Foundry II: DESI Spectroscopy for Strong Lens Candidates

Xiaosheng Huang, Jose Carlos Inchausti, Christopher J. Storfer +59

We present the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Strong Lensing Secondary Target Program. This is a spectroscopic follow-up program for strong gravitational lens candidat…

astro-ph.CO2025

DESI Strong Lens Foundry III: Keck Spectroscopy for Strong Lenses Discovered Using Residual Neural Networks

Shrihan Agarwal, Xiaosheng Huang, William Sheu +49

We present spectroscopic data of strong lenses and their source galaxies using the Keck Near-Infrared Echellette Spectrometer (NIRES) and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (…