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most citedThe 3D-HST Survey: Hubble Space Telescope WFC3/G141 grism spectra, redshifts, and emission line measurements for galaxies

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49 papers

astro-ph.CO2025

The Power of DESI for Photometric Redshift Calibration: A Case Study with KiDS-1000

Diana Blanco, Alexie Leauthaud, Johannes Ulf Lange +64

Accurate redshift estimates are a critical requirement for weak lensing surveys and one of the main uncertainties in constraints on dark energy and large-scale cosmic structure. In…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

Clustering redshift distribution calibration of weak lensing surveys using the DESI-DR1 spectroscopic dataset

R. Ruggeri, C. Blake, J. Aguilar +63

We estimate the source redshift distribution of current weak lensing surveys by applying the clustering-based redshift calibration technique, using the galaxy redshift sample provi…

astro-ph.CO2025

Cosmological Constraints from Full-Scale Clustering and Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing with DESI DR1

Johannes U. Lange, Alexandra Wells, Andrew Hearin +76

We present constraints on cosmic structure growth from the analysis of galaxy clustering and galaxy--galaxy lensing with galaxies from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DES…

astro-ph.CO2025

BASILISK IV. No Tension with Satellite Kinematics

Kaustav Mitra, Frank C. van den Bosch, Josephine Baggen +1

We develop a novel technique to probe the tension, using information from the smallest scales of galaxy redshift survey data. Specifically, we use Basilisk, a Bayesian hierar…

astro-ph.CO2025

Joint cosmological fits to DESI-DR1 full-shape clustering and weak gravitational lensing in configuration space

A. Semenaite, C. Blake, A. Porredon +69

We present a joint -pt cosmological analysis of auto- and cross-correlations between the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Data Release 1 (DESI-DR1) Bright Galaxy Surv…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

DESI-DR1 -pt analysis: consistent cosmology across weak lensing surveys

A. Porredon, C. Blake, J. U. Lange +70

We present a joint cosmological analysis of projected galaxy clustering observations from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Data Release 1 (DESI-DR1), and overlapping weak g…

astro-ph.CO2025

A Unified Photometric Redshift Calibration for Weak Lensing Surveys using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

Johannes U. Lange, Diana Blanco, Alexie Leauthaud +61

The effective redshift distribution of galaxies is a critical component in the study of weak gravitational lensing. Here, we introduce a new method for determining fo…

astro-ph.CO2025

Validation of the DESI-DR1 3x2-pt analysis: scale cut and shear ratio tests

N. Emas, A. Porredon, C. Blake +54

Combined survey analyses of galaxy clustering and weak gravitational lensing (3x2-pt studies) will allow new and accurate tests of the standard cosmological model. However, careful…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 3 cited

Testing gravitational physics by combining DESI DR1 and weak lensing datasets using the E_G estimator

S. J. Rauhut, C. Blake, U. Andrade +61

The action of gravitational physics across space-time creates observable signatures in the behaviour of light and matter. We perform combined-probe studies using data from the Bary…

astro-ph.CO2025

Lensing Without Borders: Measurements of galaxy-galaxy lensing and projected galaxy clustering in DESI DR1

S. Heydenreich, A. Leauthaud, C. Blake +64

We present Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing measurements obtained by cross-correlating spectroscopically observed galaxies from the first data release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrum…

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.CO2024

The DESI-Lensing Mock Challenge: large-scale cosmological analysis of 3x2-pt statistics

C. Blake, C. Garcia-Quintero, S. Ahlen +41

The current generation of large galaxy surveys will test the cosmological model by combining multiple types of observational probes. Realising the statistical promise of these new…

astro-ph.CO2024

High-Precision Galaxy Clustering Predictions from Small-Volume Hydrodynamical Simulations via Control Variates

Alexandra Doytcheva, Filomela V. Gerou, Johannes U. Lange

Cosmological simulations of galaxy formation are an invaluable tool for understanding galaxy formation and its impact on cosmological parameter inference from large-scale structure…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 3 cited

BASILISK II. Improved Constraints on the Galaxy-Halo Connection from Satellite Kinematics in SDSS

Kaustav Mitra, Frank C. van den Bosch, Johannes U. Lange

Basilisk is a novel Bayesian hierarchical method for inferring the galaxy-halo connection, including its scatter, using the kinematics of satellite galaxies extracted from a redshi…

astro-ph.CO2024

Not all lensing is low: An analysis of DESIDES using the Lagrangian Effective Theory of LSS

S. Chen, J. DeRose, R. Zhou +39

In this work we use Lagrangian perturbation theory to analyze the harmonic space galaxy clustering signal of Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS) and Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) targeted by…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 7 cited

Systematic Effects in Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing with DESI

J. U. Lange, C. Blake, C. Saulder +56

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey will measure spectroscopic redshifts for millions of galaxies across roughly of the sky. Cross-cor…

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.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.IM2023

NAUTILUS: boosting Bayesian importance nested sampling with deep learning

Johannes U. Lange

We introduce a novel approach to boost the efficiency of the importance nested sampling (INS) technique for Bayesian posterior and evidence estimation using deep learning. Unlike r…

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…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 6 cited

Validation of the Scientific Program for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +261

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) was designed to conduct a survey covering 14,000 deg over five years to constrain the cosmic expansion history through precise m…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 1 cited

Cluster Cosmology Without Cluster Finding

Enia Xhakaj, Alexie Leauthaud, Johannes Lange +5

We propose that observations of super-massive galaxies contain cosmological constraining power similar to conventional cluster cosmology, and we provide promising indications that…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 5 cited

Synthetic light cone catalogues of modern redshift and weak lensing surveys with AbacusSummit

Boryana Hadzhiyska, Sihan Yuan, Chris Blake +32

The joint analysis of different cosmological probes, such as galaxy clustering and weak lensing, can potentially yield invaluable insights into the nature of the primordial Univers…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 11 cited

Anisotropic Satellite Galaxy Quenching: A Unique Signature of Energetic Feedback by Supermassive Black Holes?

Juliana S. M. Karp, Johannes U. Lange, Risa H. Wechsler

The quenched fraction of satellite galaxies is aligned with the orientation of the halo's central galaxy, such that on average, satellites form stars at a lower rate along the majo…