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most citedDESI 2024 VI: Cosmological Constraints from the Measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations

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astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

The Cosmic Evolution of CIV Absorbers at : Insights from Systems in DESI Quasars

Abhijeet Anand, J. Aguilar, S. Ahlen +39

We present the largest catalog to date of triply ionized carbon (CIV) absorbers detected in quasar spectra from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. Using an automated matched…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

Validation of the DESI DR2 Measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from Galaxies and Quasars

U. Andrade, E. Paillas, J. Mena-Fernández +116

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) data release 2 (DR2) galaxy and quasar clustering data represents a significant expansion of data from DR1, providing improved stati…

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★ 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 (…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 187 cited

DESI 2024 VII: Cosmological Constraints from the Full-Shape Modeling of Clustering Measurements

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +210

We present cosmological results from the measurement of clustering of galaxy, quasar and Lyman- forest tracers from the first year of observations with the Dark Energy Spectrosc…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 81 cited

DESI 2024 II: Sample Definitions, Characteristics, and Two-point Clustering Statistics

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +200

We present the samples of galaxies and quasars used for DESI 2024 cosmological analyses, drawn from the DESI Data Release 1 (DR1). We describe the construction of large-scale struc…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 73 cited

DESI 2024 V: Full-Shape Galaxy Clustering from Galaxies and Quasars

A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar, S. Ahlen +195

We present the measurements and cosmological implications of the galaxy two-point clustering using over 4.7 million unique galaxy and quasar redshifts in the range divi…

astro-ph.CO2024

The Construction of Large-scale Structure Catalogs for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

A. J. Ross, J. Aguilar, S. Ahlen +83

We present the technical details on how large-scale structure (LSS) catalogs are constructed from redshifts measured from spectra observed by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrume…

astro-ph.CO2024

Production of Alternate Realizations of DESI Fiber Assignment for Unbiased Clustering Measurement in Data and Simulations

J. Lasker, A. Carnero Rosell, A. D. Myers +52

A critical requirement of spectroscopic large scale structure analyses is correcting for selection of which galaxies to observe from an isotropic target list. This selection is oft…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 263 cited

DESI 2024 III: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from Galaxies and Quasars

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +193

We present the DESI 2024 galaxy and quasar baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) measurements using over 5.7 million unique galaxy and quasar redshifts in the range 0.1<z<2.1. Divided…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1.1k cited

DESI 2024 VI: Cosmological Constraints from the Measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +200

We present cosmological results from the measurement of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in galaxy, quasar and Lyman- forest tracers from the first year of observations from t…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 254 cited

DESI 2024 IV: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from the Lyman Alpha Forest

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +196

We present the measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) from the Lyman- (Ly) forest of high-redshift quasars with the first-year dataset of the Dark Energy Spectrosc…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 5 cited

New insight on the nature of cosmic reionizers from the CEERS survey

S. Mascia, L. Pentericci, A. Calabrò +29

The Epoch of Reionization (EoR) began when galaxies grew in abundance and luminosity, so their escaping Lyman continuum (LyC) radiation started ionizing the surrounding neutral int…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 2 cited

3D Correlations in the Lyman- Forest from Early DESI Data

Calum Gordon, Andrei Cuceu, Jonás Chaves-Montero +56

We present the first measurements of Lyman- (Ly) forest correlations using early data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). We measure the auto-correlation of…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 6 cited

Identifying Lyα emitter candidates with Random Forest: learning from galaxies in CANDELS survey

L. Napolitano, L. Pentericci, A. Calabrò +8

The physical processes which make a galaxy a Lyman Alpha Emitter have been extensively studied for the past 25 years. However, the correlations between physical and morphological p…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 6 cited

Optimal 1D Ly Forest Power Spectrum Estimation -- III. DESI early data

Naim Göksel Karaçaylı, Paul Martini, Julien Guy +59

The one-dimensional power spectrum of the Ly forest provides important information about cosmological and astrophysical parameters, including constraints on wa…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 2 cited

The Lyman- forest catalog from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Early Data Release

César Ramírez-Pérez, Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols, Andreu Font-Ribera +67

We present and validate the catalog of Lyman- forest fluctuations for 3D analyses using the Early Data Release (EDR) from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey.…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 343 cited

The Early Data Release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +266

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) completed its five-month Survey Validation in May 2021. Spectra of stellar and extragalactic targets from Survey Validation constitu…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 6 cited

Validation of the Scientific Program for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +261

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) was designed to conduct a survey covering 14,000 deg over five years to constrain the cosmic expansion history through precise m…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 25 cited

The ionizing photon production efficiency of bright z2-5 galaxies

M. Castellano, D. Belfiori, L. Pentericci +27

We investigate the production efficiency of ionizing photons () of 1174 galaxies with secure redshift at z=2-5 from the VANDELS survey to determine the relation between…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 85 cited

Closing in on the sources of cosmic reionization: first results from the GLASS-JWST program

S. Mascia, L. Pentericci, A. Calabro' +29

The escape fraction of Lyman-continuum (LyC) photons () is a key parameter for determining the sources of cosmic reionization at . At these redshifts, owing to th…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 91 cited

The DESI Survey Validation: Results from Visual Inspection of the Quasar Survey Spectra

David M. Alexander, Tamara M. Davis, E. Chaussidon +69

A key component of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey validation (SV) is a detailed visual inspection (VI) of the optical spectroscopic data to quantify key sur…