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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…
The DESI Transients Survey: Legacy Classifications and Methodology
Xander J. Hall, Antonella Palmese, Segev BenZvi +56
We present the first systematic spectroscopic observations of extragalactic transients from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), as part of the DESI Transients Survey p…
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…
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…
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…
DESI DR1 Ly forest: 3D full-shape analysis and cosmological constraints
Andrei Cuceu, Hiram K. Herrera-Alcantar, Calum Gordon +75
We perform an analysis of the full shapes of Lyman- (Ly) forest correlation functions measured from the first data release (DR1) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (…
The Compilation and Validation of the Spectroscopic Redshift Catalogs for the DESI-COSMOS and DESI-XMMLSS Fields
J. Ratajczak, K. S. Dawson, N. Weaverdyck +74
Over several dedicated programs that include targets beyond the main cosmological samples, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collected spectra for 304,970 unique obje…
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…
Identifying Anomalous DESI Galaxy Spectra with a Variational Autoencoder
C. Nicolaou, R. P. Nathan, O. Lahav +43
The tens of millions of spectra being captured by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) provide tremendous discovery potential. In this work we show how Machine Learning,…
The Backup Program of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument's Milky Way Survey
Arjun Dey, Sergey E. Koposov, Joan R. Najita +66
The Milky Way Backup Program (MWBP), a survey currently underway with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) on the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-m Telescope, works at the margins…
DESI DR1 Ly 1D power spectrum: The optimal estimator measurement
N. G. Karaçaylı, P. Martini, J. Aguilar +61
The one-dimensional power spectrum of Ly forest offers rich insights into cosmological and astrophysical parameters, including constraints on the sum of neutri…
Using Active Learning to Improve Quasar Identification for the DESI Spectra Processing Pipeline
Dylan Green, David Kirkby, J. Aguilar +51
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey uses an automatic spectral classification pipeline to classify spectra. QuasarNET is a convolutional neural network used as p…
Cosmological implications of DESI DR2 BAO measurements in light of the latest ACT DR6 CMB data
C. Garcia-Quintero, H. E. Noriega, A. de Mattia +92
We report cosmological results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) measurements of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) when combined with recent data from the Ataca…
Validation of the DESI DR2 Ly BAO analysis using synthetic datasets
L. Casas, H. K. Herrera-Alcantar, J. Chaves-Montero +95
The second data release (DR2) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), containing data from the first three years of observations, doubles the number of Lyman- (Ly…
Data Release 1 of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
DESI Collaboration, M. Abdul Karim, A. G. Adame +306
In 2021 May the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration began a 5-year spectroscopic redshift survey to produce a detailed map of the evolving three-dimensional s…
Construction of the Damped Ly Absorber Catalog for DESI DR2 Ly BAO
A. Brodzeller, M. Wolfson, D. M. Santos +96
We present the Damped Ly Toolkit for automated detection and characterization of Damped Ly absorbers (DLA) in quasar spectra. Our method uses quasar spectral templates with a…
DESI DR2 Results I: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from the Lyman Alpha Forest
DESI Collaboration, M. Abdul-Karim, J. Aguilar +147
We present the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) measurements with the Lyman-alpha (LyA) forest from the second data release (DR2) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI…
DESI DR2 Results II: Measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations and Cosmological Constraints
DESI Collaboration, M. Abdul-Karim, J. Aguilar +184
We present baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements from more than 14 million galaxies and quasars drawn from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 2 (…
Algorithms for Non-Negative Matrix Factorization on Noisy Data With Negative Values
Dylan Green, Stephen Bailey
Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is a dimensionality reduction technique that has shown promise for analyzing noisy data, especially astronomical data. For these datasets, t…