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astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

Measuring the conditional luminosity and stellar mass functions of galaxies by combining the DESI LS DR9, SV3 and Y1 data

Yirong Wang, Xiaohu Yang, Yizhou Gu +42

In this investigation, we leverage the combination of Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Legacy imaging Surveys Data Release 9 (DESI LS DR9), Survey Validation 3 (SV3), and Year…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

A Large Sample of Extremely Metal-poor Galaxies at Identified from the DESI Early Data

Hu Zou, Jipeng Sui, Amélie Saintonge +32

Extremely metal-poor galaxies (XMPGs) at relatively low redshift are excellent laboratories for studying galaxy formation and evolution in the early universe. Much effort has been…

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.GA2023★ 2 cited

The DESI One-Percent Survey: A concise model for galactic conformity of ELGs

Hongyu Gao, Y. P. Jing, Kun Xu +27

Galactic conformity is the phenomenon in which a galaxy of a certain physical property is correlated with its neighbors of the same property, implying a possible causal relationshi…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 7 cited

Strong [O III] λ5007 Compact Galaxies Identified from SDSS DR16 and Their Scaling Relations

Weiyu Ding, Hu Zou, Xu Kong +11

Green pea galaxies are a special class of star-forming compact galaxies with strong [O III]λ5007 and considered as analogs of high-redshift Lyα-emitting galaxies and potential sour…

astro-ph.GA2023

A striking relationship between dust extinction and radio detection in DESI QSOs: evidence for a dusty blow-out phase in red QSOs

V. A. Fawcett, D. M. Alexander, A. Brodzeller +39

We present the first eight months of data from our secondary target program within the ongoing Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey. Our program uses a mid-infrared a…

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.GA2023

The DESI One-Percent survey: constructing galaxy-halo connections for ELGs and LRGs using auto and cross correlations

Hongyu Gao, Y. P. Jing, Shanquan Gui +31

In the current Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey, emission line galaxies (ELGs) and luminous red galaxies (LRGs) are essential for mapping the dark matter distribu…

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.GA2023★ 2 cited

Changing-look Active Galactic Nuclei from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. I.Sample from the Early Data

Wei-Jian Guo, Hu Zou, Victoria Anne Fawcett +34

Changing-look Active Galactic Nuclei (CL AGN) can be generally confirmed by the emergence (turn-on) or disappearance (turn-off) of broad emission lines, associated with a transient…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 22 cited

Long-term follow-up observations of extreme coronal line emitting galaxies

Peter Clark, Or Graur, Joseph Callow +40

We present new spectroscopic and photometric follow-up observations of the known sample of extreme coronal line emitting galaxies (ECLEs) identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey…

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.GA2023★ 2 cited

PROVABGS: The Probabilistic Stellar Mass Function of the BGS One-Percent Survey

ChangHoon Hahn, Jessica Nicole Aguilar, Shadab Alam +33

We present the probabilistic stellar mass function (pSMF) of galaxies in the DESI Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS), observed during the One-Percent Survey. The One-Percent Survey was one…

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.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.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.SR2023

GTC Follow-up Observations of Very Metal-Poor Star Candidates from DESI

Carlos Allende Prieto, David S. Aguado, Jonay I. González Hernández +48

The observations from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will significantly increase the numbers of known extremely metal-poor stars by a factor of ~ 10, improving the…

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…