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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.CO2022

A Spectroscopic Road Map for Cosmic Frontier: DESI, DESI-II, Stage-5

David J. Schlegel, Simone Ferraro, Greg Aldering +62

In this white paper, we present an experimental road map for spectroscopic experiments beyond DESI. DESI will be a transformative cosmological survey in the 2020s, mapping 40 milli…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 24 cited

New Strong Gravitational Lenses from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys Data Release 9

C. Storfer, X. Huang, A. Gu +14

We have conducted a search for strong gravitational lensing systems in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Surveys Data Release 9. This is the third pape…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 66 cited

CHIME/FRB Catalog 1 results: statistical cross-correlations with large-scale structure

Masoud Rafiei-Ravandi, Kendrick M. Smith, Dongzi Li +38

The CHIME/FRB Project has recently released its first catalog of fast radio bursts (FRBs), containing 492 unique sources. We present results from angular cross-correlations of CHIM…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 58 cited

Preliminary Target Selection for the DESI Emission Line Galaxy (ELG) Sample

Anand Raichoor, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Tanveer Karim +26

DESI will precisely constrain cosmic expansion and the growth of structure by collecting 35 million redshifts across 80% of cosmic history and one third of the sky to s…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 68 cited

Preliminary Target Selection for the DESI Quasar (QSO) Sample

Christophe Yèche, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Charles-Antoine Claveau +24

The DESI survey will measure large-scale structure using quasars as direct tracers of dark matter in the redshift range and using quasar Ly- forests at . We p…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 146 cited

The completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Large-scale Structure Catalogues and Measurement of the isotropic BAO between redshift 0.6 and 1.1 for the Emission Line Galaxy Sample

Anand Raichoor, Arnaud de Mattia, Ashley J. Ross +37

We present the Emission Line Galaxy (ELG) sample of the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV Data Release 16 (DR16). After…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 42 cited

The Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Pairwise-Inverse-Probability and Angular Correction for Fibre Collisions in Clustering Measurements

Faizan G. Mohammad, Will J. Percival, Hee-Jong Seo +28

The completed eBOSS catalogues contain redshifts of 344080 QSOs over 0.8<z<2.2 covering 4808 deg, 174816 LRGs over 0.6<z<1.0 covering 4242 deg and 173736 ELGs over 0.6<z<1.…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 89 cited

The SDSS-IV Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: final Emission Line Galaxy Target Selection

A. Raichoor, J. Comparat, T. Delubac +22

We describe the algorithm used to select the Emission Line Galaxy (ELG) sample at for the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey of the Sloan Digital Sky Su…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 114 cited

The SDSS-IV extended Baryonic Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Luminous Red Galaxy Target Selection

Abhishek Prakash, Timothy C. Licquia, Jeffrey A. Newman +26

We describe the algorithm used to select the Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) sample for the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (S…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 849 cited

The SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Overview and Early Data

Kyle S. Dawson, Jean-Paul Kneib, Will J. Percival +143

The Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) will conduct novel cosmological observations using the BOSS spectrograph at Apache Point Observatory. Observations will…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 205 cited

The SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Quasar Target Selection

Adam D. Myers, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Abhishek Prakash +34

As part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) will improve measurements of the cosmological distance scale by applying the…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 167 cited

GREAT3 results I: systematic errors in shear estimation and the impact of real galaxy morphology

Rachel Mandelbaum, Barnaby Rowe, Robert Armstrong +40

We present first results from the third GRavitational lEnsing Accuracy Testing (GREAT3) challenge, the third in a sequence of challenges for testing methods of inferring weak gravi…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 29 cited

Hierarchical probabilistic inference of cosmic shear

Michael D. Schneider, David W. Hogg, Philip J. Marshall +4

Point estimators for the shearing of galaxy images induced by gravitational lensing involve a complex inverse problem in the presence of noise, pixelization, and model uncertaintie…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 38 cited

The Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury IV. A Probabilistic Approach to Inferring the High Mass Stellar Initial Mass Function and Other Power-law Functions

Daniel R. Weisz, Morgan Fouesneau, David W. Hogg +13

We present a probabilistic approach for inferring the parameters of the present day power-law stellar mass function (MF) of a resolved young star cluster. This technique (a) fully…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 54 cited

The Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury I: Bright UV Stars in the Bulge of M31

Philip Rosenfield, L. Clifton Johnson, Léo Girardi +20

As part of the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT) multi-cycle program, we observed a 12' \times 6.5' area of the bulge of M31 with the WFC3/UVIS filters F275W and F336W.…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 79 cited

PHAT Stellar Cluster Survey I. Year 1 Catalog and Integrated Photometry

L. Clifton Johnson, Anil C. Seth, Julianne J. Dalcanton +21

The Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT) survey is an on-going Hubble Space Telescope (HST) multi-cycle program to obtain high spatial resolution imaging of one-third of t…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 374 cited

The Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury

J. J. Dalcanton, B. F. Williams, D. Lang +30

The Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT) is an on-going HST Multicycle Treasury program to image ~1/3 of M31's star forming disk in 6 filters, from the UV to the NIR. The…