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astro-ph.CO2024★ 27 cited

DESI Peculiar Velocity Survey -- Fundamental Plane

Khaled Said, Cullan Howlett, Tamara Davis +52

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Peculiar Velocity Survey aims to measure the peculiar velocities of early and late type galaxies within the DESI footprint using bot…

astro-ph.CO2024

Constraints on the spacetime variation of the fine-structure constant using DESI emission-line galaxies

Linhua Jiang, Zhiwei Pan, Jessica Nicole Aguilar +38

We present strong constraints on the spacetime variation of the fine-structure constant using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). In this pilot work, we utilize $\…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 17 cited

ELG Spectroscopic Systematics Analysis of the DESI Data Release 1

Jiaxi Yu, Ashley J. Ross, Antoine Rocher +58

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) uses more than 2.4 million Emission Line Galaxies (ELGs) for 3D large-scale structure (LSS) analyses in its Data Release 1 (DR1). Such l…

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★ 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

Redshift evolution and covariances for joint lensing and clustering studies with DESI Y1

Sihan Yuan, Chris Blake, Alex Krolewski +48

Galaxy-galaxy lensing (GGL) and clustering measurements from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Year 1 (DESI Y1) dataset promise to yield unprecedented combined-probe tests o…

astro-ph.CO2024

Redshift-dependent RSD bias from Intrinsic Alignment with DESI Year 1 Spectra

Claire Lamman, Daniel Eisenstein, Jessica Nicole Aguilar +30

We estimate the redshift-dependent, anisotropic clustering signal in DESI's Year 1 Survey created by tidal alignments of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) and a selection-induced galaxy…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 5 cited

Unraveling emission line galaxy conformity at z~1 with DESI early data

Sihan Yuan, Risa H. Wechsler, Yunchong Wang +32

Emission line galaxies (ELGs) are now the preeminent tracers of large-scale structure at z>0.8 due to their high density and strong emission lines, which enable accurate redshift m…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 2 cited

The DESI One-Percent Survey: Evidence for Assembly Bias from Low-Redshift Counts-in-Cylinders Measurements

Alan N. Pearl, Andrew R. Zentner, Jeffrey A. Newman +28

We explore the galaxy-halo connection information that is available in low-redshift samples from the early data release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). We model…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 11 cited

DESI Complete Calibration of the Color-Redshift Relation (DC3R2): Results from early DESI data

J. McCullough, D. Gruen, A. Amon +46

We present initial results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Complete Calibration of the Color-Redshift Relation (DC3R2) secondary target survey. Our analysis us…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 58 cited

DESI luminous red galaxy samples for cross-correlations

Rongpu Zhou, Simone Ferraro, Martin White +36

We present two galaxy samples, selected from DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys (LS) DR9, with approximately 20,000 square degrees of coverage and spectroscopic redshift distributions des…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 2 cited

3D Correlations in the Lyman- Forest from Early DESI Data

Calum Gordon, Andrei Cuceu, Jonás Chaves-Montero +56

We present the first measurements of Lyman- (Ly) forest correlations using early data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). We measure the auto-correlation of…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 17 cited

Mitigating the noise of DESI mocks using analytic control variates

Boryana Hadzhiyska, Martin J. White, Xinyi Chen +30

In order to address fundamental questions related to the expansion history of the Universe and its primordial nature with the next generation of galaxy experiments, we need to mode…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 19 cited

Validation of semi-analytical, semi-empirical covariance matrices for two-point correlation function for Early DESI data

Michael Rashkovetskyi, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Jessica Nicole Aguilar +34

We present an extended validation of semi-analytical, semi-empirical covariance matrices for the two-point correlation function (2PCF) on simulated catalogs representative of Lumin…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 5 cited

DESI Mock Challenge: Constructing DESI galaxy catalogues based on FastPM simulations

Andrei Variu, Shadab Alam, Cheng Zhao +30

Together with larger spectroscopic surveys such as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), the precision of large scale structure studies and thus the constraints on the c…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 32 cited

Local primordial non-Gaussianity from the large-scale clustering of photometric DESI luminous red galaxies

Mehdi Rezaie, Ashley J. Ross, Hee-Jong Seo +46

We use angular clustering of luminous red galaxies from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) imaging surveys to constrain the local primordial non-Gaussianity parameter…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 9 cited

The DESI One-Percent Survey: Exploring the Halo Occupation Distribution of Luminous Red Galaxies and Quasi-Stellar Objects with AbacusSummit

Sihan Yuan, Hanyu Zhang, Ashley J. Ross +39

We present the first comprehensive Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) analysis of the DESI One-Percent survey Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) and Quasi-Stellar Object (QSO) samples. We c…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 8 cited

The 2-point correlation function covariance with fewer mocks

Svyatoslav Trusov, Pauline Zarrouk, Shaun Cole +18

We present an approach for accurate estimation of the covariance of 2-point correlation functions that requires fewer mocks than the standard mock-based covariance. This can be ach…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 6 cited

Optimal 1D Ly Forest Power Spectrum Estimation -- III. DESI early data

Naim Göksel Karaçaylı, Paul Martini, Julien Guy +59

The one-dimensional power spectrum of the Ly forest provides important information about cosmological and astrophysical parameters, including constraints on wa…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 10 cited

The DESI One-Percent Survey: Modelling the clustering and halo occupation of all four DESI tracers with Uchuu

F. Prada, J. Ereza, A. Smith +44

We present results from a set of mock lightcones for the DESI One-Percent Survey, created from the Uchuu simulation. This This 8 (Gpc/h)^3 N-body simulation comprises 2.1 trillion…

astro-ph.CO2023

The DESI One-Percent Survey: Exploring A Generalized SHAM for Multiple Tracers with the UNIT Simulation

Jiaxi Yu, Cheng Zhao, Violeta Gonzalez-Perez +40

We perform SubHalo Abundance Matching (SHAM) studies on UNIT simulations with \{\}-SHAM and \{\}-SHAM. They are designe…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 49 cited

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument: One-dimensional power spectrum from first Lyman- forest samples with Fast Fourier Transform

Corentin Ravoux, Marie Lynn Abdul-Karim, Eric Armengaud +63

We present the one-dimensional Lyman- forest power spectrum measurement using the first data provided by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). The data sample compris…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 13 cited

Survey Operations for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

E. F. Schlafly, D. Kirkby, D. J. Schlegel +47

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey is a spectroscopic survey of tens of millions of galaxies at covering 14,000 square degrees of the sky. In its…

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…