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20122024
most citedOverview of the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys

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45 papers

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.SR2023

GTC Follow-up Observations of Very Metal-Poor Star Candidates from DESI

Carlos Allende Prieto, David S. Aguado, Jonay I. González Hernández +48

The observations from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will significantly increase the numbers of known extremely metal-poor stars by a factor of ~ 10, improving the…

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★ 26 cited

Detecting and Characterizing Mg II absorption in DESI Survey Validation Quasar Spectra

Lucas Napolitano, Agnesh Pandey, Adam D. Myers +33

We present findings of the detection of Magnesium II (Mg II, λ = 2796, 2803 Å) absorbers from the early data release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). DESI is pro…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 25 cited

Extragalactic magnetism with SOFIA (SALSA Legacy Program) -- V: First results on the magnetic field orientation of galaxies

Alejandro S. Borlaff, Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez, Rainer Beck +13

We present the analysis of the magnetic field (-field) structure of galaxies measured with far-infrared (FIR) and radio (3 and 6 cm) polarimetric observations. We use the first…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 10 cited

DESI Survey Validation Spectra Reveal an Increasing Fraction of Recently Quenched Galaxies at

David J. Setton, Biprateep Dey, Gourav Khullar +24

We utilize bright Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from the novel Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Survey Validation spectroscopic sample, leveraging its deep ($\sim2.5…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 177 cited

Target Selection and Validation of DESI Emission Line Galaxies

A. Raichoor, J. Moustakas, Jeffrey A. Newman +48

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will precisely constrain cosmic expansion and the growth of structure by collecting 40 million extra-galactic redshifts across…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 204 cited

Target Selection and Validation of DESI Quasars

Edmond Chaussidon, Christophe Yèche, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille +54

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey will measure large-scale structures using quasars as direct tracers of dark matter in the redshift range 0.9<z<2.1 and using…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 261 cited

DESI Bright Galaxy Survey: Final Target Selection, Design, and Validation

ChangHoon Hahn, Michael J. Wilson, Omar Ruiz-Macias +57

Over the next five years, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will use 10 spectrographs with 5000 fibers on the 4m Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory to…

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…

astro-ph.CO2022

The DESI Survey Validation: Results from Visual Inspection of Bright Galaxies, Luminous Red Galaxies, and Emission Line Galaxies

Ting-Wen Lan, R. Tojeiro, E. Armengaud +79

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Survey has obtained a set of spectroscopic measurements of galaxies to validate the final survey design and target selections. To as…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 465 cited

Overview of the Instrumentation for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

B. Abareshi, J. Aguilar, S. Ahlen +264

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has embarked on an ambitious five-year survey to explore the nature of dark energy with spectroscopy of 40 million galaxies and quas…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 23 cited

Extragalactic magnetism with SOFIA (SALSA Legacy Program) -- III: First data release and on-the-fly polarization mapping characterization

Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez, Melanie Clarke, Sachin Shenoy +17

We describe the data processing of the Survey on extragALactic magnetiSm with SOFIA (SALSA Legacy Program). This first data release presents 33% (51.34h out of 155.7h, including ov…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 99 cited

Cosmicflows-4: The Catalog of ~10000 Tully-Fisher Distances

Ehsan Kourkchi, R. Brent Tully, Sarah Eftekharzadeh +14

We present the distances of 9792 spiral galaxies lying within 15,000 km/s using the relation between luminosity and rotation rate of spiral galaxies. The sample is dominantly, but…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 60 cited

Preliminary Target Selection for the DESI Milky Way Survey (MWS)

Carlos Allende Prieto, Andrew P. Cooper, Arjun Dey +31

The DESI Milky Way Survey (MWS) will observe 8 million stars between mag, supplemented by observations of brighter targets under poor observing conditions. The s…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 72 cited

Preliminary Target Selection for the DESI Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS)

Omar Ruiz-Macias, Pauline Zarrouk, Shaun Cole +28

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will execute a nearly magnitude-limited survey of low redshift galaxies (, median ). Clustering…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 79 cited

Preliminary Target Selection for the DESI Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) Sample

Rongpu Zhou, Jeffrey A. Newman, Kyle S. Dawson +23

The DESI survey will observe more than 8 million candidate luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the redshift range . Here we present a preliminary version of the DESI LRG tar…

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★ 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.GA2020★ 7 cited

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Photometric g and i Light Curves

K. Kinemuchi, Patrick B. Hall, Ian McGreer +28

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping (SDSS-RM) program monitors 849 active galactic nuclei (AGN) both spectroscopically and photometrically. The photometric observati…