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astro-ph.GA2025

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…

astro-ph.GA2025

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…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

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 (…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 5 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2025

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…

astro-ph.IM2025

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,…

astro-ph.SR2025

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…

astro-ph.CO2025

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…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 2 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 29 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2025

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…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 101 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 539 cited

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 (…