From DESI to Euclid: A Generative Bridge to Unbiased Galaxy Structures
Abstract
Ground-based seeing imprints a size-dependent bias on galaxy structural parameters, yet the space-based imaging needed to remove it currently covers only a small fraction of the sky. We close this gap with a generative model that translates DESI imaging of Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS) targets into Euclid VIS images. A Fourier-domain analysis confirms that it recovers structure down to 0.37'' (from the 1.41'' DESI r-band baseline), an approximately 3.8-fold improvement in resolution. Although it stops short of the 0.16'' Euclid VIS resolution, this recovery already de-biases the structural parameters relative to the DESI r-band structure measurements: the Petrosian radius bias falls to +0.075'' (from -0.870''), independent of galaxy size; the S\'ersic-radius bias drops to -0.018'' (from -0.322''); and the S\'ersic-index bias to +0.093 (from +0.262). We release these translations over the Euclid DR1 footprint as the Euclid-resolution BGS (E-BGS), which can be blindly validated once DR1 is public.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2607.06891,
title = {From DESI to Euclid: A Generative Bridge to Unbiased Galaxy Structures},
author = {Renhao Ye and Shiyin Shen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.06891},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
10 pages, 6 figures, submitted to ApJL. Code and prediction available; feel free to download, use, and build on them. Prediction: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21032414