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astro-ph.IM2024

CSST Strong Lensing Preparation: a Framework for Detecting Strong Lenses in the Multi-color Imaging Survey by the China Survey Space Telescope (CSST)

Xu Li, Ruiqi Sun, Jiameng Lv +29

Strong gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for investigating dark matter and dark energy properties. With the advent of large-scale sky surveys, we can discover strong lensing…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 15 cited

The Optical Corrector for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

Timothy N. Miller, Peter Doel, Gaston Gutierrez +44

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is currently measuring the spectra of 40\,million galaxies and quasars, the largest such survey ever made to probe the nature of cos…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 3 cited

Astrometric Calibration of the BeijingArizona Sky Survey

Xiyan Peng, Zhaoxiang Qi, Tianmeng Zhang +13

We present the astrometric calibration of the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS). The BASS astrometry was tied to the International Celestial Reference Frame via the \emph{Gaia} Dat…

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★ 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.IM2018★ 16 cited

Photometric calibration for the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey and Mayall z-band Legacy Survey

Zhimin Zhou, Xu Zhou, Hu Zou +14

We present the photometric calibration of the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS) and Mayall z-band Legacy Survey (MzLS), which are two of the three wide-field optical legacy imaging…

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.IM2017★ 28 cited

The Second Data Release of the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey

Hu Zou, Tianmeng Zhang, Zhimin Zhou +28

This paper presents the second data release (DR2) of the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS). BASS is an imaging survey of about 5400 deg in and bands using the 2.3 m Bok…

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★ 8 cited

An Investigation of the Absolute Proper Motions of the SCUSS Catalog

Xiyan Peng, Zhaoxiang Qi, Zhenyu Wu +21

Absolute proper motions for 7.7 million objects were derived based on data from the South Galactic Cap u-band Sky Survey (SCUSS) and astrometric data derived from uncompress…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 19 cited

The THU-NAOC Transient Survey: the Performance and the First-year Result

Tianmeng Zhang, Xiaofeng Wang, Junchen Chen +18

The Tsinghua University-National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC) Transient Survey (TNTS) is an automatic survey for a systematic exploration of optical transients (OTs),…