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astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

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.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

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

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

The velocity field of our Milky Way outer stellar halo based on DESI DR2

Songting Li, Wenting Wang, Sergey E. Koposov +53

Using 64,000 halo K giants from Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) second Data Release (DR2), we decompose the Milky Way (MW) stellar halo between 3 and 160 kpc into metal…

astro-ph.GA2026

ODIN: Spectroscopic Validation of Ly-Emitting Galaxy Samples with DESI

Ethan Pinarski, Govind Ramgopal, Nicole Firestone +65

The One-hundred-deg^2 DECam Imaging in Narrowbands (ODIN) survey is conducting the widest-field deep narrow-band imaging of the equatorial and southern skies. ODIN uses three custo…

astro-ph.GA2026

Extremely Metal-Poor Galaxies in DESI DR1: Connections to Galaxies in the Early Universe

Jipeng Sui, Hu Zou, Dirk Scholte +43

Extremely Metal-Poor Galaxies (XMPGs), defined as having metallicities below 10\% of the solar value, are considered possible local analogs to primordial systems and offer a unique…

astro-ph.GA2026

ODIN: Confirmation and 3D Reconstruction of Six Massive Protoclusters at Cosmic Noon

Ashley Ortiz, Vandana Ramakrishnan, Kyoung-Soo Lee +64

Protoclusters represent sites of accelerated galaxy formation and extreme astrophysical activity characteristic of dense environments. Identifying massive protoclusters and mapping…

astro-ph.GA2026

Signatures of a Tidally Induced Spiral Arm at the Anticenter of the Milky Way and a Kinematically Extended Anticenter Stream Using DESI DR2

Mika Lambert, Constance M. Rockosi, Sergey E. Koposov +46

Using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Milky Way Survey (DESI MWS), we examine the 6D space of the anticenter region of the stellar disk (150 Galactic longitude…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Composite Spectrum of QSO Absorption Line Systems in DESI DR2

Lucas Napolitano, Adam D. Myers, Adam Tedeschi +43

We present details regarding a composite spectrum of quasar (QSO) absorption line systems. In this composite spectrum we identify more than 70 absorption lines, and observe oxygen…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Milky Way stellar halo is twisted and doubly broken: insights from DESI DR2 Milky Way Survey observation

Songting Li, Wenting Wang, Sergey E. Koposov +45

Using K giants from the second data release (DR2) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Milky Way (MW) Survey, we measure the shape, orientation, radial profile, and d…

astro-ph.GA2025

Effect of local environment on Ly line profile in DESI/ODIN LAEs

Ana Sofía M. Uzsoy, Arjun Dey, Anand Raichoor +51

Lyman-Alpha Emitters (LAEs) are star-forming galaxies with significant Ly emission and are often used as tracers of large-scale structure at high redshift. We explore the relati…

astro-ph.GA2025

Quasars acting as Strong Lenses Found in DESI DR1

Everett McArthur, Martin Millon, Meredith Powell +52

Quasars acting as strong gravitational lenses offer a rare opportunity to probe the redshift evolution of scaling relations between supermassive black holes and their host galaxies…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Dwarf galaxy halo masses from spectroscopic and photometric lensing in DESI and DES

Helena Treiber, Alexandra Amon, Risa H. Wechsler +46

We present the most precise and lowest-mass weak lensing measurements of dwarf galaxies to date, enabled by spectroscopic lenses from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI…

astro-ph.GA2025

ODIN: The LAE Lyα Luminosity Function over Cosmic Time and Environmental Density

Gautam Nagaraj, Robin Ciardullo, Caryl Gronwall +53

The ubiquity and relative ease of discovery make Ly emitting galaxies (LAEs) ideal tracers for cosmology. In addition, because Ly is a resonance line,…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

Nearby stellar substructures in the Galactic halo from DESI Milky Way Survey Year 1 Data Release

Bokyoung Kim, Sergey E. Koposov, Ting S. Li +41

We report five nearby ( kpc) stellar substructures in the Galactic halo from a subset of 138,661 stars in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Mi…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The Cocytos Stream: A Disrupted Globular Cluster from our Last Major Merger?

Christian Aganze, Vedant Chandra, Risa H. Wechsler +48

The census of stellar streams and dwarf galaxies in the Milky Way provides direct constraints on galaxy formation models and the nature of dark matter. The DESI Milky Way survey --…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 17 cited

Backlighting extended gas halos around luminous red galaxies: kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect from DESI Y1 x ACT

Bernardita Ried Guachalla, Emmanuel Schaan, Boryana Hadzhiyska +58

The gas density profile around galaxies, shaped by feedback and affecting the galaxy lensing signal, is imprinted on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by the kinematic Sunyaev-…