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DESI Emission-line Galaxies: Clustering Dependence on Stellar Mass and [OII] Luminosity

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2025-10-10 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We measure the projected two-point correlation functions of emission-line galaxies (ELGs) from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) One-Percent Survey and model their dependence on stellar mass and [OII] luminosity. We select \sim180,000 ELGs with redshifts of 0.8<z<1.60.8 < z < 1.6 and define 27 samples according to cuts in redshift and both galaxy properties. Following a framework that describes the conditional [OII] luminosity-stellar mass distribution as a function of halo mass, we simultaneously model the clustering measurements of all samples at fixed redshift. Based on the modeling result, most ELGs in our samples are classified as central galaxies, residing in halos of a narrow mass range with a typical median of \sim1012.212.4^{12.2-12.4} h1Mh^{-1} M_\odot. We observe a weak dependence of clustering amplitude on stellar mass, which is reflected in the model constraints and is likely a consequence of the 0.5 dex measurement uncertainty in the stellar mass estimates. The model shows a trend between galaxy bias and [OII] luminosity at high redshift (1.2<z<1.61.2 < z < 1.6) that is otherwise absent at lower redshifts.

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@article{arxiv.2505.20430,
  title  = {DESI Emission-line Galaxies: Clustering Dependence on Stellar Mass and [OII] Luminosity},
  author = {T. Hagen and K. S. Dawson and Z. Zheng and J. Aguilar and S. Ahlen and S. BenZvi and D. Bianchi and D. Brooks and F. J. Castander and T. Claybaugh and A. Cuceu and A. de la Macorra and P. Doel and S. Ferraro and A. Font-Ribera and J. E. Forero-Romero and E. Gaztanaga and S. Gontcho A Gontcho and V. Gonzalez-Perez and G. Gutierrez and C. Hahn and K. Honscheid and M. Ishak and S. Juneau and R. Kehoe and T. Kisner and A. Kremin and C. Lamman and M. Landriau and L. Le Guillou and A. Leauthaud and M. E. Levi and M. Manera and A. Meisner and R. Miquel and J. Moustakas and S. Nadathur and N. Palanque-Delabrouille and F. Prada and I. Perez-Rafols and A. J. Ross and G. Rossi and S. Saito and E. Sanchez and D. Schlegel and M. Schubnell and J. Silber and D. Sprayberry and G. Tarle and B. A. Weaver and R. Zhou and H. Zou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.20430},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Updated to agree with final journal publication. Corrected trivial typo in metadata title