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astro-ph.CO2026

Field-level inference of growth rate from DESI BGS galaxy and ZTF supernova simulations

Corentin Ravoux, Bastien Carreres, Julian Bautista +60

Galaxy peculiar velocities are a powerful probe of the growth rate of structure at low redshifts (), measured through the combination . These constraints are imp…

astro-ph.CO2025

Cosmological Constraints from Full-Scale Clustering and Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing with DESI DR1

Johannes U. Lange, Alexandra Wells, Andrew Hearin +76

We present constraints on cosmic structure growth from the analysis of galaxy clustering and galaxy--galaxy lensing with galaxies from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DES…

astro-ph.CO2025

A Unified Photometric Redshift Calibration for Weak Lensing Surveys using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

Johannes U. Lange, Diana Blanco, Alexie Leauthaud +61

The effective redshift distribution of galaxies is a critical component in the study of weak gravitational lensing. Here, we introduce a new method for determining fo…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

DESI Strong Lens Foundry II: DESI Spectroscopy for Strong Lens Candidates

Xiaosheng Huang, Jose Carlos Inchausti, Christopher J. Storfer +59

We present the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Strong Lensing Secondary Target Program. This is a spectroscopic follow-up program for strong gravitational lens candidat…

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.CO2025

Reconstructing Quasar Spectra and Measuring the Ly Forest with

ChangHoon Hahn, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Peter Melchior +37

Quasar spectra carry the imprint of foreground intergalactic medium (IGM) through absorption features. In particular, absorption caused by neutral hydrogen gas, the ``Ly forest,…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 9 cited

Model-Independent Measurement of the Matter-Radiation Equality Scale in DESI 2024

B. Bahr-Kalus, D. Parkinson, K. Lodha +52

The peak of the matter power spectrum, known as the turnover (TO) scale, is determined by the horizon size at the time of matter-radiation equality. This scale can serve as a stand…

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★ 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 (…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 10 cited

Constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity from the cross-correlation of DESI Luminous Red Galaxies and CMB lensing

J. R. Bermejo-Climent, R. Demina, A. Krolewski +47

We use the angular cross-correlation between a luminous red galaxy (LRG) sample from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Survey data release DR9 and the …

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

A Sound Horizon-Free Measurement of in DESI 2024

E. A. Zaborowski, P. Taylor, K. Honscheid +53

The physical size of the sound horizon at recombination is a powerful source of information for early-time measurements of the Hubble constant , and many proposed solutions to…

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 Atacama Cosmology Telescope DR6 and DESI: Structure growth measurements from the cross-correlation of DESI Legacy Imaging galaxies and CMB lensing from ACT DR6 and Planck PR4

Frank J. Qu, Qianjun Hang, Gerrit Farren +51

We measure the growth of cosmic density fluctuations on large scales and across the redshift range through the cross-correlation of the ACT DR6 CMB lensing map and gala…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 14 cited

Evidence for large baryonic feedback at low and intermediate redshifts from kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich observations with ACT and DESI photometric galaxies

B. Hadzhiyska, S. Ferraro, B. Ried Guachalla +70

Recent advances in cosmological observations have provided an unprecedented opportunity to investigate the distribution of baryons relative to the underlying matter. In this work,…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 23 cited

Cosmological constraints from the cross-correlation of DESI Luminous Red Galaxies with CMB lensing from Planck PR4 and ACT DR6

Noah Sailer, Joshua Kim, Simone Ferraro +63

We infer the growth of large scale structure over the redshift range from the cross-correlation of spectroscopically calibrated Luminous Red Galaxies (LR…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 38 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope DR6 and DESI: Structure formation over cosmic time with a measurement of the cross-correlation of CMB Lensing and Luminous Red Galaxies

Joshua Kim, Noah Sailer, Mathew S. Madhavacheril +70

We present a high-significance cross-correlation of CMB lensing maps from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 6 (DR6) with spectroscopically calibrated luminous red…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 17 cited

ELG Spectroscopic Systematics Analysis of the DESI Data Release 1

Jiaxi Yu, Ashley J. Ross, Antoine Rocher +58

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) uses more than 2.4 million Emission Line Galaxies (ELGs) for 3D large-scale structure (LSS) analyses in its Data Release 1 (DR1). Such l…

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

Impact of Systematic Redshift Errors on the Cross-correlation of the Lyman- Forest with Quasars at Small Scales Using DESI Early Data

Abby Bault, David Kirkby, Julien Guy +59

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will measure millions of quasar spectra by the end of its 5 year survey. Quasar redshift errors impact the shape of the Lyman- fo…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 11 cited

DESI Complete Calibration of the Color-Redshift Relation (DC3R2): Results from early DESI data

J. McCullough, D. Gruen, A. Amon +46

We present initial results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Complete Calibration of the Color-Redshift Relation (DC3R2) secondary target survey. Our analysis us…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 49 cited

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument: One-dimensional power spectrum from first Lyman- forest samples with Fast Fourier Transform

Corentin Ravoux, Marie Lynn Abdul-Karim, Eric Armengaud +63

We present the one-dimensional Lyman- forest power spectrum measurement using the first data provided by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). The data sample compris…

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…