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astro-ph.IM2025

Bayesian Component Separation for DESI LAE Automated Spectroscopic Redshifts and Photometric Targeting

Ana Sofía M. Uzsoy, Andrew K. Saydjari, Arjun Dey +37

Lyman Alpha Emitters (LAEs) are valuable high-redshift cosmological probes traditionally identified using specialized narrow-band photometric surveys. In ground-based spectroscopy,…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 2 cited

NANCY: Next-generation All-sky Near-infrared Community surveY

Jiwon Jesse Han, Arjun Dey, Adrian M. Price-Whelan +206

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is capable of delivering an unprecedented all-sky, high-spatial resolution, multi-epoch infrared map to the astronomical community. This oppor…

astro-ph.IM2022

The MegaMapper: A Stage-5 Spectroscopic Instrument Concept for the Study of Inflation and Dark Energy

David J. Schlegel, Juna A. Kollmeier, Greg Aldering +86

In this white paper, we present the MegaMapper concept. The MegaMapper is a proposed ground-based experiment to measure Inflation parameters and Dark Energy from galaxy redshifts a…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 240 cited

The Spectroscopic Data Processing Pipeline for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

J. Guy, S. Bailey, A. Kremin +55

We describe the spectroscopic data processing pipeline of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), which is conducting a redshift survey of about 40 million galaxies and qu…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 150 cited

The Target-selection Pipeline for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

Adam D. Myers, John Moustakas, Stephen Bailey +51

In 2021 May, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) began a 5 yr survey of approximately 50 million total extragalactic and Galactic targets. The primary DESI dark-time ta…

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.IM2019★ 26 cited

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)

Michael E. Levi, Lori E. Allen, Anand Raichoor +42

We present the status of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and its plans and opportunities for the coming decade. DESI construction and its initial five years of oper…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 311 cited

4MOST: Project overview and information for the First Call for Proposals

R. S. de Jong, O. Agertz, A. Agudo Berbel +335

We introduce the 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST), a new high-multiplex, wide-field spectroscopic survey facility under development for the four-metre-class Vis…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 356 cited

The Fifteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release of MaNGA Derived Quantities, Data Visualization Tools and Stellar Library

D. S. Aguado, Romina Ahumada, Andres Almeida +230

Twenty years have passed since first light for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Here, we release data taken by the fourth phase of SDSS (SDSS-IV) across its first three years o…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 1.9k cited

Overview of the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys

Arjun Dey, David J. Schlegel, Dustin Lang +157

The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys are a combination of three public projects (the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey, the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey, and the Mayall z-band Legacy Surve…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 236 cited

The DESI Experiment Part II: Instrument Design

DESI Collaboration, Amir Aghamousa, Jessica Aguilar +290

DESI (Dark Energy Spectropic Instrument) is a Stage IV ground-based dark energy experiment that will study baryon acoustic oscillations and the growth of structure through redshift…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 1.3k cited

The DESI Experiment Part I: Science,Targeting, and Survey Design

DESI Collaboration, Amir Aghamousa, Jessica Aguilar +290

DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) is a Stage IV ground-based dark energy experiment that will study baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) and the growth of structure through…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 26 cited

Simultaneous Estimation of Photometric Redshifts and SED Parameters: Improved Techniques and a Realistic Error Budget

Viviana Acquaviva, Anand Raichoor, Eric Gawiser

We seek to improve the accuracy of joint galaxy photometric redshift estimation and spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting. By simulating different sources of uncorrected syste…