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astro-ph.GA2020★ 49 cited

Second Data Release of the All-sky NOIRLab Source Catalog

David L. Nidever, Arjun Dey, Katie Fasbender +7

We announce the second data release (DR2) of the NOIRLab Source Catalog (NSC), using 412,116 public images from CTIO-4m+DECam, the KPNO-4m+Mosaic3 and the Bok-2.3m+90Prime. NSC DR2…

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…