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114 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Comparative analysis of missing data imputation methods for CSST survey: Impact on photometric redshift estimation performance

Ling Wang, Zhu Chen, Zhijian Luo +42

Improving the accuracy of photometric redshifts (photo-) is essential for reliable statistical studies of cosmology and galaxy evolution. However, missing photometric bands are…

astro-ph.GA2026

Investigating the Effects of Bars on Star Formation and Nuclear Activity of Galaxies Using DESI Survey Data

Jianfei Liu, Zhimin Zhou

We present a statistical analysis of the connections between galactic bars, star formation, and active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity using 33,201 disk galaxies (0.01 < z < 0.05)…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

The link between galaxy structure properties and star formation in local galaxies

Zhimin Zhou, Wenwen Wang

To investigate the role of morphology in galaxy evolution, we analyze the relationships between galaxy structure, star formation, and HI gas content. Using multi-band images from t…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Identification and analysis of galactic bars in DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys

Wenwen Wang, Zhimin Zhou

We present a comprehensive study of bar structures in the local Universe using data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys. Through isophotal analysis of 232,142 galaxies, we identif…

astro-ph.GA2024

The first identification of Lyman Changing-look Quasars at high-redshift in DESI

Wei-Jian Guo, Zhiwei Pan, Małgorzata Siudek +38

We present two cases of Ly changing-look (CL) quasars (J1306 and J1512) along with two additional candidates (J1511 and J1602), all discovered serendipitously at through…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 27 cited

DESI Peculiar Velocity Survey -- Fundamental Plane

Khaled Said, Cullan Howlett, Tamara Davis +52

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Peculiar Velocity Survey aims to measure the peculiar velocities of early and late type galaxies within the DESI footprint using bot…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 5 cited

AuriDESI: Mock Catalogues for the DESI Milky Way Survey

Namitha Kizhuprakkat, Andrew P. Cooper, Alexander H. Riley +31

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Milky Way Survey (DESI MWS) will explore the assembly history of the Milky Way by characterising remnants of ancient dwarf galaxy accretion…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

The MOST Hosts Survey: spectroscopic observation of the host galaxies of ~40,000 transients using DESI

Maayane T. Soumagnac, Peter Nugent, Robert A. Knop +54

We present the MOST Hosts survey (Multi-Object Spectroscopy of Transient Hosts). The survey is planned to run throughout the five years of operation of the Dark Energy Spectroscopi…

astro-ph.IM2024

CSST Strong Lensing Preparation: a Framework for Detecting Strong Lenses in the Multi-color Imaging Survey by the China Survey Space Telescope (CSST)

Xu Li, Ruiqi Sun, Jiameng Lv +29

Strong gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for investigating dark matter and dark energy properties. With the advent of large-scale sky surveys, we can discover strong lensing…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 11 cited

High redshift LBGs from deep broadband imaging for future spectroscopic surveys

Vanina Ruhlmann-Kleider, Christophe Yèche, Christophe Magneville +60

Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) are promising probes for clustering measurements at high redshift, , a region only covered so far by Lyman- forest measurements. In this paper,…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 6 cited

Emission Line Predictions for Mock Galaxy Catalogues: a New Differentiable and Empirical Mapping from DESI

Ashod Khederlarian, Jeffrey A. Newman, Brett H. Andrews +43

We present a simple, differentiable method for predicting emission line strengths from rest-frame optical continua using an empirically-determined mapping. Extensive work has been…

astro-ph.CO2024

Redshift evolution and covariances for joint lensing and clustering studies with DESI Y1

Sihan Yuan, Chris Blake, Alex Krolewski +48

Galaxy-galaxy lensing (GGL) and clustering measurements from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Year 1 (DESI Y1) dataset promise to yield unprecedented combined-probe tests o…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 10 cited

The rate of extreme coronal line emitting galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and their relation to tidal disruption events

Joseph Callow, Or Graur, Peter Clark +27

High-ionization iron coronal lines (CLs) are a rare phenomenon observed in galaxy and quasi-stellar object spectra that are thought to be created by high-energy emission from activ…

astro-ph.CO2024

Redshift-dependent RSD bias from Intrinsic Alignment with DESI Year 1 Spectra

Claire Lamman, Daniel Eisenstein, Jessica Nicole Aguilar +30

We estimate the redshift-dependent, anisotropic clustering signal in DESI's Year 1 Survey created by tidal alignments of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) and a selection-induced galaxy…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

Measuring the conditional luminosity and stellar mass functions of galaxies by combining the DESI LS DR9, SV3 and Y1 data

Yirong Wang, Xiaohu Yang, Yizhou Gu +42

In this investigation, we leverage the combination of Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Legacy imaging Surveys Data Release 9 (DESI LS DR9), Survey Validation 3 (SV3), and Year…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

A Large Sample of Extremely Metal-poor Galaxies at Identified from the DESI Early Data

Hu Zou, Jipeng Sui, Amélie Saintonge +32

Extremely metal-poor galaxies (XMPGs) at relatively low redshift are excellent laboratories for studying galaxy formation and evolution in the early universe. Much effort has been…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 10 cited

A Spectroscopic Search for Optical Emission Lines from Dark Matter Decay

Hanyue Wang, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Jessica Nicole Aguilar +19

We search for narrow-line optical emission from dark matter decay by stacking dark-sky spectra from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) at the redshift of nearby galaxi…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 5 cited

Unraveling emission line galaxy conformity at z~1 with DESI early data

Sihan Yuan, Risa H. Wechsler, Yunchong Wang +32

Emission line galaxies (ELGs) are now the preeminent tracers of large-scale structure at z>0.8 due to their high density and strong emission lines, which enable accurate redshift m…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 2 cited

The DESI One-Percent Survey: Evidence for Assembly Bias from Low-Redshift Counts-in-Cylinders Measurements

Alan N. Pearl, Andrew R. Zentner, Jeffrey A. Newman +28

We explore the galaxy-halo connection information that is available in low-redshift samples from the early data release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). We model…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 58 cited

DESI luminous red galaxy samples for cross-correlations

Rongpu Zhou, Simone Ferraro, Martin White +36

We present two galaxy samples, selected from DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys (LS) DR9, with approximately 20,000 square degrees of coverage and spectroscopic redshift distributions des…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

The DESI One-Percent Survey: A concise model for galactic conformity of ELGs

Hongyu Gao, Y. P. Jing, Kun Xu +27

Galactic conformity is the phenomenon in which a galaxy of a certain physical property is correlated with its neighbors of the same property, implying a possible causal relationshi…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 7 cited

Strong [O III] λ5007 Compact Galaxies Identified from SDSS DR16 and Their Scaling Relations

Weiyu Ding, Hu Zou, Xu Kong +11

Green pea galaxies are a special class of star-forming compact galaxies with strong [O III]λ5007 and considered as analogs of high-redshift Lyα-emitting galaxies and potential sour…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 17 cited

Mitigating the noise of DESI mocks using analytic control variates

Boryana Hadzhiyska, Martin J. White, Xinyi Chen +30

In order to address fundamental questions related to the expansion history of the Universe and its primordial nature with the next generation of galaxy experiments, we need to mode…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 19 cited

Validation of semi-analytical, semi-empirical covariance matrices for two-point correlation function for Early DESI data

Michael Rashkovetskyi, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Jessica Nicole Aguilar +34

We present an extended validation of semi-analytical, semi-empirical covariance matrices for the two-point correlation function (2PCF) on simulated catalogs representative of Lumin…