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most citedThe Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

5.4k citations · 22.2k across the 35 of their papers we have counts for

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36 papers

astro-ph.IM2023★ 15 cited

The Optical Corrector for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

Timothy N. Miller, Peter Doel, Gaston Gutierrez +44

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is currently measuring the spectra of 40\,million galaxies and quasars, the largest such survey ever made to probe the nature of cos…

astro-ph.IM2022

The MegaMapper: A Stage-5 Spectroscopic Instrument Concept for the Study of Inflation and Dark Energy

David J. Schlegel, Juna A. Kollmeier, Greg Aldering +86

In this white paper, we present the MegaMapper concept. The MegaMapper is a proposed ground-based experiment to measure Inflation parameters and Dark Energy from galaxy redshifts a…

astro-ph.CO2022

A Spectroscopic Road Map for Cosmic Frontier: DESI, DESI-II, Stage-5

David J. Schlegel, Simone Ferraro, Greg Aldering +62

In this white paper, we present an experimental road map for spectroscopic experiments beyond DESI. DESI will be a transformative cosmological survey in the 2020s, mapping 40 milli…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 8 cited

A Machine Learning Approach to the Detection of Ghosting and Scattered Light Artifacts in Dark Energy Survey Images

Chihway Chang, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Stephen M. Kent +3

Astronomical images are often plagued by unwanted artifacts that arise from a number of sources including imperfect optics, faulty image sensors, cosmic ray hits, and even airplane…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 18 cited

Astro2020 APC White Paper: The MegaMapper: a z > 2 spectroscopic instrument for the study of Inflation and Dark Energy

David J. Schlegel, Juna A. Kollmeier, Greg Aldering +74

MegaMapper is a proposed ground-based experiment to measure Inflation parameters and Dark Energy from galaxy redshifts at 2<z<5. A 6.5-m Magellan telescope will be coupled with DES…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 3 cited

Fabrication of the DESI Corrector Lenses

Timothy N. Miller, Robert W. Besuner, Michael E. Levi +10

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is under construction to measure the expansion history of the Universe using the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation technique. The spectra…