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most citedThe DESI Experiment Part I: Science,Targeting, and Survey Design

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astro-ph.IM2025

Identifying Anomalous DESI Galaxy Spectra with a Variational Autoencoder

C. Nicolaou, R. P. Nathan, O. Lahav +43

The tens of millions of spectra being captured by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) provide tremendous discovery potential. In this work we show how Machine Learning,…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

Using Active Learning to Improve Quasar Identification for the DESI Spectra Processing Pipeline

Dylan Green, David Kirkby, J. Aguilar +51

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey uses an automatic spectral classification pipeline to classify spectra. QuasarNET is a convolutional neural network used as p…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 2 cited

Validation of the DESI DR2 Ly BAO analysis using synthetic datasets

L. Casas, H. K. Herrera-Alcantar, J. Chaves-Montero +95

The second data release (DR2) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), containing data from the first three years of observations, doubles the number of Lyman- (Ly…

astro-ph.IM2024

Correcting Turbulence-induced Errors in Fiber Positioning for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

E. F. Schlafly, J. Guy, K. Honscheid +37

Highly-multiplexed, robotic, fiber-fed spectroscopic surveys are observing tens of millions of stars and galaxies. For many systems, accurate positioning relies on imaging the fibe…

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★ 5 cited

The Dark Energy Survey Six-Year Calibration Star Catalog

E. S. Rykoff, D. L. Tucker, D. L. Burke +64

This Technical Note presents a catalog of calibrated reference stars that was generated by the Forward Calibration Method (FGCM) pipeline (arXiv:1706.01542) as part of the FGCM pho…