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

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astro-ph.GA2026

Linking neutral gas inflows and outflows to offsets in the star-forming main sequence and mass-metallicity relation

S. Weng, M. Pieri, A. Saintonge +40

Gas inflows and outflows regulate galaxy growth, but direct observational links between measured gas flows and galaxy scaling relations remain limited. Using ~6,000 star-forming ga…

astro-ph.GA2026

Peering down the barrel with DESI DR2: 10 000+ inflows at < 0.6 reveal how galaxies accrete cold gas

S. Weng, A. Saintonge, M. Pieri +39

Direct observational constraints on how galaxies acquire their gas remain remarkably limited, hindering our understanding of the baryon cycle. We present a search for down-the-barr…

astro-ph.GA2026

Joint Modeling of GD-1 and C-19 as Old Streams

Raymond G. Carlberg, Ting S. Li, Emma Jarvis +39

DESI observational data for the GD-1 and C-19 streams are compared to stream simulations in an evolving multi-halo potential of a Milky Way-like galaxy based on a cosmological Milk…

astro-ph.GA2026

Mapping the nuclear environments of extreme coronal line emitting galaxies

Daniel Kynoch, Or Graur, Peter Clark +30

Extreme coronal line emitters (ECLEs) are a rare class of galactic nuclei exhibiting unusually strong high-ionisation forbidden emission lines, and several ECLEs have been linked t…

astro-ph.GA2026

A New Record Census of Dwarf AGN and a Bimodal - Scaling Relation with DESI DR1

Ragadeepika Pucha, S. Juneau, M. Mezcua +48

Using the first spectroscopic data release from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI DR1), we conduct the largest systematic search for active galactic nuclei (AGN) signa…

astro-ph.GA2026

Characterizing the GD-1 Stream with DESI DR2 Data: Thin Stream and Hot Cocoon

Emma Jarvis, Ting S. Li, Sergey E. Koposov +54

GD-1 is among the longest, coldest stellar streams in the Milky Way, making it an ideal target for probing dark matter substructure through dynamical heating. We present a catalog…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Kinematically Hot, Extremely Metal-Poor C-19 Stellar Stream in DESI DR2

Nasser Mohammed, Joseph Y. Tang, Ting S. Li +47

Stellar streams are the result of a host galaxy's gravitational potential tidally disrupting satellite dwarf galaxies and globular clusters (GCs), causing them to grow leading and…

astro-ph.GA2026

PAC in DESI. II. Galaxy-halo connection into the frontier

Kun Xu, Carlos S. Frenk, Y. P. Jing +37

Understanding dwarf galaxy formation is crucial for testing dark matter models and reionization physics. However, constructing stellar-mass complete spectroscopic samples at low ma…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Electron temperature relations and the direct N, O, Ne, S and Ar abundances of 49959 star-forming galaxies in DESI Data Release 2

D. Scholte, F. Cullen, J. Moustakas +42

We present the largest direct-method abundance catalogue of galaxies to date, containing measurements of 49959 star-forming galaxies at z < 0.96 from DESI Data Release 2. By direct…

astro-ph.GA2025

Tracing the Cosmic Evolution of the Cool Circumgalactic Medium of Luminous Red Galaxies with DESI Year 1 Data

Yu-Ling Chang, Ting-Wen Lan, J. Xavier Prochaska +44

We investigate the properties of the cool circumgalactic medium (CGM) of massive galaxies and their cosmic evolution. By using the year 1 dataset of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) an…

astro-ph.GA2025

Measurements of quasar proximity zones with the Ly forest of DESI Y1 quasars

Ryuichiro Hada, Paul Martini, David H. Weinberg +41

The intergalactic medium (IGM) around quasars is shaped by their dense environments and by their excess ionizing radiation, forming a "quasar proximity zone" whose size and anisotr…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Multi-Phase Circumgalactic Medium of DESI Emission-Line Galaxies at z~1.5

Ting-Wen Lan, J. Xavier Prochaska, J. Aguilar +39

We study the multi-phase circumgalactic medium (CGM) of emission line galaxies (ELGs) at , traced by MgII, and CIV, …

astro-ph.GA2025

DESI DR2 Galaxy Luminosity Functions

Samuel G. Moore, Shaun Cole, Michael Wilson +54

We present galaxy luminosity functions (LFs) for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) DR2 Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS) in the g,r,z, and w1 bands over 0.002<z<0.6. Our ana…

astro-ph.GA2025

Direct Measurement of Galaxy Assembly Bias using DESI DR1 Data

Zhiwei Shao, Ying Zu, Andrés N. Salcedo +54

We report the first direct measurement of galaxy assembly bias, a critical systematic in cosmology, from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Bright Galaxy Survey. We in…

astro-ph.GA2025

A New Way to Discover Strong Gravitational Lenses: Pair-wise Spectroscopic Search from DESI DR1

Yuan-Ming Hsu, Xiaosheng Huang, Christopher J. Storfer +47

We present a new method to search for strong gravitational lensing systems by pairing spectra that are close together on the sky in a spectroscopic survey. We visually inspect 26,6…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The mass of the Milky Way from outer halo stars measured by DESI DR1

Gustavo E. Medina, Ting S. Li, Gwendolyn M. Eadie +50

As a benchmark for galaxy evolution and dark matter studies, the total mass of the Milky Way is a parameter of cosmological significance, and its value at large radii from the Gala…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

DESI EDR: Calibrating the Tully-Fisher Relationship with the DESI Peculiar Velocity Survey

K. Douglass, S. BenZvi, N. Uberoi +45

We calibrate the Tully-Fisher relation (TFR) with data from the DESI Peculiar Velocity (PV) Survey taken during the Survey Validation (SV) period of the DESI galaxy redshift survey…

astro-ph.GA2025

DESI DR2 reference mocks: clustering results from Uchuu-BGS and LRG

E. Fernández-García, F. Prada, A. Smith +64

The aim of this work is to construct mock galaxy catalogues that accurately reproduce the redshift evolution of galaxy number density, clustering statistics, and baryonic propertie…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 6 cited

Beyond Traditional Diagnostics: Identifying Active Galactic Nuclei with Spectral Energy Distribution Fitting in DESI Data

M. Siudek, M. Mezcua, C. Circosta +36

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are typically identified through their distinctive X-ray or radio emissions, mid-infrared (MIR) colors, or emission lines. However, each method capture…

astro-ph.GA2025

ODIN: The LAE Lyα Luminosity Function over Cosmic Time and Environmental Density

Gautam Nagaraj, Robin Ciardullo, Caryl Gronwall +53

The ubiquity and relative ease of discovery make Ly emitting galaxies (LAEs) ideal tracers for cosmology. In addition, because Ly is a resonance line,…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

DESI Emission-line Galaxies: Clustering Dependence on Stellar Mass and [OII] Luminosity

T. Hagen, K. S. Dawson, Z. Zheng +49

We measure the projected two-point correlation functions of emission-line galaxies (ELGs) from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) One-Percent Survey and model their de…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 12 cited

DESI Data Release 1: Stellar Catalogue

Sergey E. Koposov, Ting S. Li, C. Allende Prieto +65

In this paper we present the stellar Value-Added Catalogue (VAC) based on the DESI Data Release 1. This VAC contains stellar parameter, abundance and radial velocity measurements f…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The DESI Y1 RR Lyrae catalog II: The metallicity dependency of pulsational properties, the shape of the RR Lyrae instability strip, and metal rich RR Lyrae

Gustavo E. Medina, Ting S. Li, C. Allende Prieto +39

RR Lyrae stars (RRLs) are valuable probes of both Milky Way assembly and stellar-evolution physics. Using a sample 6,240 RRLs obtained in the first year of the Dark Energy Spectros…

astro-ph.GA2024

Tripling the Census of Dwarf AGN Candidates Using DESI Early Data

Ragadeepika Pucha, S. Juneau, Arjun Dey +46

Using early data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey, we search for AGN signatures in 410,757 line-emitting galaxies. By employing the BPT emission-line rat…