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astro-ph.CO2026

DESI DR2 Results IV: Alcock-Paczyński Measurements from the Lyman Alpha Forest and Cosmological Constraints

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +152

We present Alcock-Paczyński (AP) measurements from the full shape of Lyman- (Ly) forest correlation functions measured from the second data release (DR2) of the Dark Energy S…

astro-ph.CO2026

Taming Additive Systematics via Redshift-Bin-Optimized Star-Galaxy Separation

Noah Weaverdyck, David Schlegel, Anand Raichoor +1

Contamination from stars in the galaxy samples of large-scale structure surveys can bias cosmological constraints if not tightly controlled. This is especially true for lens sample…

astro-ph.CO2025

Probing the environment around GW170817 with DESI: insights on galaxy group peculiar velocities for standard siren measurements

A. J. Amsellem, A. Palmese, K. Douglass +56

We present a new measurement of the Hubble constant, , following the gravitational wave event GW170817 and Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) observations. A standard…

astro-ph.CO2025

Clustering analysis of medium-band selected high-redshift galaxies

H. Ebina, M. White, A. Raichoor +57

Next-generation large-scale structure spectroscopic surveys will probe cosmology at high redshifts , relying on abundant galaxy tracers such as Ly emitters (LAE…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 5 cited

The Compilation and Validation of the Spectroscopic Redshift Catalogs for the DESI-COSMOS and DESI-XMMLSS Fields

J. Ratajczak, K. S. Dawson, N. Weaverdyck +74

Over several dedicated programs that include targets beyond the main cosmological samples, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collected spectra for 304,970 unique obje…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

Validation of the DESI DR2 Measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from Galaxies and Quasars

U. Andrade, E. Paillas, J. Mena-Fernández +116

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) data release 2 (DR2) galaxy and quasar clustering data represents a significant expansion of data from DR1, providing improved stati…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 29 cited

Data Release 1 of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

DESI Collaboration, M. Abdul Karim, A. G. Adame +306

In 2021 May the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration began a 5-year spectroscopic redshift survey to produce a detailed map of the evolving three-dimensional s…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 101 cited

DESI DR2 Results I: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from the Lyman Alpha Forest

DESI Collaboration, M. Abdul-Karim, J. Aguilar +147

We present the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) measurements with the Lyman-alpha (LyA) forest from the second data release (DR2) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 539 cited

DESI DR2 Results II: Measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations and Cosmological Constraints

DESI Collaboration, M. Abdul-Karim, J. Aguilar +184

We present baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements from more than 14 million galaxies and quasars drawn from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 2 (…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

The Spectroscopic Stage-5 Experiment

Robert Besuner, Arjun Dey, Alex Drlica-Wagner +106

The existence, properties, and dynamics of the dark sectors of our universe pose fundamental challenges to our current model of physics, and large-scale astronomical surveys may be…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 3 cited

DESI Spectroscopy of HETDEX Emission-line Candidates I: Line Discrimination Validation

Martin Landriau, Erin Mentuch Cooper, Dustin Davis +50

The Hobby-Eberly Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is an untargeted spectroscopic galaxy survey that uses Ly emitting galaxies (LAEs) as tracers of 1.9 < z < 3.5 large scale struc…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 187 cited

DESI 2024 VII: Cosmological Constraints from the Full-Shape Modeling of Clustering Measurements

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +210

We present cosmological results from the measurement of clustering of galaxy, quasar and Lyman- forest tracers from the first year of observations with the Dark Energy Spectrosc…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 81 cited

DESI 2024 II: Sample Definitions, Characteristics, and Two-point Clustering Statistics

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +200

We present the samples of galaxies and quasars used for DESI 2024 cosmological analyses, drawn from the DESI Data Release 1 (DR1). We describe the construction of large-scale struc…

astro-ph.CO2024

Characterization of DESI fiber assignment incompleteness effect on 2-point clustering and mitigation methods for DR1 analysis

D. Bianchi, M. M. S Hanif, A. Carnero Rosell +52

We present an in-depth analysis of the fiber assignment incompleteness in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 1 (DR1). This incompleteness is caused by the…

astro-ph.CO2024

Mitigating Imaging Systematics for DESI 2024 Emission Line Galaxies and Beyond

A. J. Rosado-Marín, A. J. Ross, H. Seo +56

Emission Line Galaxies (ELGs) are one of the main tracers that the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) uses to probe the universe. However, they are afflicted by strong spu…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 73 cited

DESI 2024 V: Full-Shape Galaxy Clustering from Galaxies and Quasars

A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar, S. Ahlen +195

We present the measurements and cosmological implications of the galaxy two-point clustering using over 4.7 million unique galaxy and quasar redshifts in the range divi…

astro-ph.CO2024

Selection of high-redshift Lyman-Break Galaxies from broadband and wide photometric surveys

C. Payerne, W. d'Assignies Doumerg, C. Yèche +44

In this paper, we investigate the possibility of selecting high-redshift Lyman-Break Galaxies (LBG) using current and future broadband wide photometric surveys, such as UNIONS or t…

astro-ph.CO2024

The clustering of Lyman Alpha Emitting galaxies at z=2-3

M. White, A. Raichoor, Arjun Dey +52

We measure the clustering of Lyman Alpha Emitting galaxies (LAEs) selected from the One-hundred-square-degree DECam Imaging in Narrowbands (ODIN) survey, with spectroscopic follow-…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 29 cited

Archetype-Based Redshift Estimation for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Survey

Abhijeet Anand, Julien Guy, Stephen Bailey +46

We present a computationally efficient galaxy archetype-based redshift estimation and spectral classification method for the Dark Energy Survey Instrument (DESI) survey. The DESI s…

astro-ph.CO2024

The Construction of Large-scale Structure Catalogs for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

A. J. Ross, J. Aguilar, S. Ahlen +83

We present the technical details on how large-scale structure (LSS) catalogs are constructed from redshifts measured from spectra observed by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrume…

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★ 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.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…