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Constraining Dark Energy with DEEP2

The DEEP2 survey has now completed half of its planned three-year lifespan, and we have collected approximately 50% of the data, putting us exactly on schedule. The survey plan calls for spectroscopic coverage by July of 2005 of \~60,000…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marc Davis , Brian F. Gerke , Jeffrey A. Newman

Target Selection and Validation of DESI Luminous Red Galaxies

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is carrying out a 5-year survey that aims to measure the redshifts of tens of millions of galaxies and quasars, including 8 million luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the redshift range of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-19 Rongpu Zhou , Biprateep Dey , Jeffrey A. Newman , Daniel J. Eisenstein , K. Dawson , S. Bailey , A. Berti , J. Guy , Ting-Wen Lan , H. Zou , J. Aguilar , S. Ahlen , Shadab Alam , D. Brooks , A. de la Macorra , A. Dey , G. Dhungana , K. Fanning , A. Font-Ribera , S. Gontcho A Gontcho , K. Honscheid , Mustapha Ishak , T. Kisner , A. Kovács , A. Kremin , M. Landriau , Michael E. Levi , C. Magneville , Marc Manera , P. Martini , Aaron M. Meisner , R. Miquel , J. Moustakas , Adam D. Myers , Jundan Nie , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , W. J. Percival , C. Poppett , F. Prada , A. Raichoor , A. J. Ross , E. Schlafly , D. Schlegel , M. Schubnell , Gregory Tarlé , B. A. Weaver , R. H. Wechsler , Christophe Yèche , Zhimin Zhou

The DECam Ecliptic Exploration Project (DEEP): V. The Absolute Magnitude Distribution of the Cold Classical Kuiper Belt

The DECam Ecliptic Exploration Project (DEEP) is a deep survey of the trans-Neptunian solar system being carried out on the 4-meter Blanco telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam).…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-19 Kevin J. Napier , Hsing-Wen Lin , David W. Gerdes , Fred C. Adams , Anna M. Simpson , Matthew W. Porter , Katherine G. Weber , Larissa Markwardt , Gabriel Gowman , Hayden Smotherman , Pedro H. Bernardinelli , Mario Jurić , Andrew J. Connolly , J. Bryce Kalmbach , Stephen K. N. Portillo , David E. Trilling , Ryder Strauss , William J. Oldroyd , Chadwick A. Trujillo , Colin Orion Chandler , Matthew J. Holman , Hilke E. Schlichting , Andrew McNeill , the DEEP Collaboration

Probing Dark Energy with the Kunlun Dark Universe Survey Telescope

Dark energy is an important science driver of many upcoming large-scale surveys. With small, stable seeing and low thermal infrared background, Dome A, Antarctica, offers a unique opportunity for shedding light on fundamental questions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Gong-Bo Zhao , Hu Zhan , Lifan Wang , Zuhui Fan , Xinmin Zhang

Optimizing the LSST Observing Strategy for Dark Energy Science: DESC Recommendations for the Wide-Fast-Deep Survey

Cosmology is one of the four science pillars of LSST, which promises to be transformative for our understanding of dark energy and dark matter. The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC) has been tasked with deriving constraints on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-17 Michelle Lochner , Daniel M. Scolnic , Humna Awan , Nicolas Regnault , Philippe Gris , Rachel Mandelbaum , Eric Gawiser , Husni Almoubayyed , Christian N. Setzer , Simon Huber , Melissa L. Graham , Renée Hložek , Rahul Biswas , Tim Eifler , Daniel Rothchild , Tarek Allam , Jonathan Blazek , Chihway Chang , Thomas Collett , Ariel Goobar , Isobel M. Hook , Mike Jarvis , Saurabh W. Jha , Alex G. Kim , Phil Marshall , Jason D. McEwen , Marc Moniez , Jeffrey A. Newman , Hiranya V. Peiris , Tanja Petrushevska , Jason Rhodes , Ignacio Sevilla-Noarbe , Anže Slosar , Sherry H. Suyu , J. Anthony Tyson , Peter Yoachim

The DECam Ecliptic Exploration Project (DEEP) II. Observational Strategy and Design

We present the DECam Ecliptic Exploration Project (DEEP) survey strategy including observing cadence for orbit determination, exposure times, field pointings and filter choices. The overall goal of the survey is to discover and characterize…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-01 Chadwick A. Trujillo , Cesar Fuentes , David W. Gerdes , Larissa Markwardt , Scott S. Sheppard , Ryder Strauss , Colin Orion Chandler , William J. Oldroyd , David E. Trilling , Hsing Wen Lin , Fred C. Adams , Pedro H. Bernardinelli , Matthew J. Holman , Mario Juric , Andrew McNeill , Michael Mommert , Kevin J. Napier , Matthew J. Payne , Darin Ragozzine , Andrew S. Rivkin , Hilke Schlichting , Hayden Smotherman

Assessing tension metrics with Dark Energy Survey and Planck data

Quantifying tensions -- inconsistencies amongst measurements of cosmological parameters by different experiments -- has emerged as a crucial part of modern cosmological data analysis. Statistically-significant tensions between two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 P. Lemos , M. Raveri , A. Campos , Y. Park , C. Chang , N. Weaverdyck , D. Huterer , A. R. Liddle , J. Blazek , R. Cawthon , A. Choi , J. DeRose , S. Dodelson , C. Doux , M. Gatti , D. Gruen , I. Harrison , E. Krause , O. Lahav , N. MacCrann , J. Muir , J. Prat , M. M. Rau , R. P. Rollins , S. Samuroff , J. Zuntz , W. G. Hartley , B. Hoyle , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. A. Troxel , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , S. Avila , D. Bacon , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , M. E. S. Pereira , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , K. Eckert , T. F. Eifler , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , A. E. Evrard , I. Ferrero , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , E. M. Huff , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , J. Myles , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , S. Pandey , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. A. Plazas , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , A. Roodman , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , L. F. Secco , S. Serrano , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , T. N. Varga , J. Weller , W. Wester

DESI 2024 VII: Cosmological Constraints from the Full-Shape Modeling of Clustering Measurements

We present cosmological results from the measurement of clustering of galaxy, quasar and Lyman-$\alpha$ forest tracers from the first year of observations with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI Data Release 1). We adopt the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 DESI Collaboration , A. G. Adame , J. Aguilar , S. Ahlen , S. Alam , D. M. Alexander , C. Allende Prieto , M. Alvarez , O. Alves , A. Anand , U. Andrade , E. Armengaud , S. Avila , A. Aviles , H. Awan , B. Bahr-Kalus , S. Bailey , C. Baltay , A. Bault , J. Behera , S. BenZvi , F. Beutler , D. Bianchi , C. Blake , R. Blum , M. Bonici , S. Brieden , A. Brodzeller , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , E. Burtin , R. Calderon , R. Canning , A. Carnero Rosell , R. Cereskaite , J. L. Cervantes-Cota , S. Chabanier , E. Chaussidon , J. Chaves-Montero , D. Chebat , S. Chen , X. Chen , T. Claybaugh , S. Cole , A. Cuceu , T. M. Davis , K. Dawson , A. de la Macorra , A. de Mattia , N. Deiosso , A. Dey , B. Dey , Z. Ding , P. Doel , J. Edelstein , S. Eftekharzadeh , D. J. Eisenstein , W. Elbers , A. Elliott , P. Fagrelius , K. Fanning , S. Ferraro , J. Ereza , N. Findlay , B. Flaugher , A. Font-Ribera , D. Forero-Sánchez , J. E. Forero-Romero , C. S. Frenk , C. Garcia-Quintero , L. H. Garrison , E. Gaztañaga , H. Gil-Marín , S. Gontcho A Gontcho , A. X. Gonzalez-Morales , V. Gonzalez-Perez , C. Gordon , D. Green , D. Gruen , R. Gsponer , G. Gutierrez , J. Guy , B. Hadzhiyska , C. Hahn , M. M. S Hanif , H. K. Herrera-Alcantar , K. Honscheid , C. Howlett , D. Huterer , V. Iršič , M. Ishak , R. Joyce , S. Juneau , N. G. Karaçaylı , R. Kehoe , S. Kent , D. Kirkby , H. Kong , S. E. Koposov , A. Kremin , A. Krolewski , O. Lahav , Y. Lai , T. -W. Lan , M. Landriau , D. Lang , J. Lasker , J. M. Le Goff , L. Le Guillou , A. Leauthaud , M. E. Levi , T. S. Li , K. Lodha , C. Magneville , M. Manera , D. Margala , P. Martini , W. Matthewson , M. Maus , P. McDonald , L. Medina-Varela , A. Meisner , J. Mena-Fernández , R. Miquel , J. Moon , S. Moore , J. Moustakas , N. Mudur , E. Mueller , A. Muñoz-Gutiérrez , A. D. Myers , S. Nadathur , L. Napolitano , R. Neveux , J. A. Newman , N. M. Nguyen , J. Nie , G. Niz , H. E. Noriega , N. Padmanabhan , E. Paillas , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , J. Pan , S. Penmetsa , W. J. Percival , M. M. Pieri , M. Pinon , C. Poppett , A. Porredon , F. Prada , A. Pérez-Fernández , I. Pérez-Ràfols , D. Rabinowitz , A. Raichoor , C. Ramírez-Pérez , S. Ramirez-Solano , M. Rashkovetskyi , C. Ravoux , M. Rezaie , J. Rich , A. Rocher , C. Rockosi , N. A. Roe , A. Rosado-Marin , A. J. Ross , G. Rossi , R. Ruggeri , V. Ruhlmann-Kleider , L. Samushia , E. Sanchez , C. Saulder , E. F. Schlafly , D. Schlegel , M. Schubnell , H. Seo , A. Shafieloo , R. Sharples , J. Silber , A. Slosar , A. Smith , D. Sprayberry , T. Tan , G. Tarlé , P. Taylor , S. Trusov , R. Vaisakh , D. Valcin , F. Valdes , G. Valogiannis , M. Vargas-Magaña , L. Verde , M. Walther , B. Wang , M. S. Wang , B. A. Weaver , N. Weaverdyck , R. H. Wechsler , D. H. Weinberg , M. White , M. J. Wilson , L. Yi , J. Yu , Y. Yu , S. Yuan , C. Yèche , E. A. Zaborowski , P. Zarrouk , H. Zhang , C. Zhao , R. Zhao , R. Zhou , T. Zhuang , H. Zou

The Spectroscopic Stage-5 Experiment

The existence, properties, and dynamics of the dark sectors of our universe pose fundamental challenges to our current model of physics, and large-scale astronomical surveys may be our only hope to unravel these long-standing mysteries. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-09 Robert Besuner , Arjun Dey , Alex Drlica-Wagner , Haruki Ebina , Guillermo Fernandez Moroni , Simone Ferraro , Jaime Forero-Romero , Klaus Honscheid , Pat Jelinsky , Dustin Lang , Michael Levi , Paul Martini , Adam Myers , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Swayamtrupta Panda , Claire Poppett , Noah Sailer , David Schlegel , Arman Shafieloo , Joseph Silber , Martin White , Timothy Abbott , Lori Allen , Santiago Avila , Roberto Avilés , Stephen Bailey , Abby Bault , Mohamed Bouri , Konstantina Boutsia , Eienne Burtin , Fernando Chierchie , William Coulton , Kyle Dawson , Biprateep Dey , Olivier Doré , Patrick Dunlop , Daniel Eisenstein , Castorina Emanuele , Stephanie Escoffier , Juan Estrada , Parker Fagrelius , Kevin Fanning , Timothy Fanning , Andreu Font-Ribera , Joshua Frieman , Malak Galal , Vera Gluscevic , Satya Gontcho A Gontcho , Daniel Green , Gaston Gutierrez , Julien Guy , Kevan Hashemi , Steve Heathcote , Steve Holland , Jiamin Hou , Dragan Huterer , Blas Irigoyen Gimenez , Mikhail Ivanov , Richard Joyce , Eric Jullo , Stephanie Juneau , Claire Juramy , Armin Karcher , Stephen Kent , David Kirkby , Jean-Paul Kneib , Elisabeth Krause , Alex Krolewski , Ofer Lahav , Agustin Lapi , Alexie Leauthaud , Matthew Lewandowski , Ting Li , Kenneth Lin , Marilena Loverde , Sean MacBride , Christophe Magneville , Jennifer Marshall , Patrick McDonald , Timothy Miller , John Moustakas , Moritz Münchmeyer , Joan Najita , Jeff Newman , Will Percival , Oliver Philcox , Priscila Pires , Anand Raichoor , Brandon Roach , Constance Rockosi , Maxime Rombach , Ashley Ross , Eusebio Sanchez , Luke Schmidt , Michael Schubnell , Rebekah Sebok , Uros Seljak , Eva Silverstein , Zachay Slepian , Chris Stone , Robert Stupak , Gregory Tarlé , Ting Li , Luke Tyas , Mariana Vargas-Magaña , Alistair Walker , Nicholas Wenner , Christophe Yèche , Yuanyuan Zhang , Rongpu Zhou

ProtoDESI: First On-Sky Technology Demonstration for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is under construction to measure the expansion history of the universe using the baryon acoustic oscillations technique. The spectra of 35 million galaxies and quasars over 14,000 square…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-04 Parker Fagrelius , Behzad Abareshi , Lori Allen , Otger Ballester , Charles Baltay , Robert Besuner , Elizabeth Buckley-Geer , Karen Butler , Laia Cardiel , Arjun Dey , Ann Elliott , William Emmet , Irena Gershkovich , Klaus Honscheid , Jose M. Illa , Jorge Jimenez , Michael Levi , Christopher Manser , Robert Marshall , Paul Martini , Anthony Paat , Ronald Probst , David Rabinowitz , Kevin Reil , Amy Robertson , Connie Rockosi , David Schlegel , Michael Schubnell , Santiago Serrano , Joseph Silber , Christian Soto , David Sprayberry , David Summers , Greg Tarle , Benjamin A. Weaver , Y. T. Duan

Overview of the DESI Milky Way Survey

We describe the Milky Way Survey (MWS) that will be undertaken with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) on the Mayall 4m telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory. Over the next 5 yr DESI MWS will observe approximately…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-26 Andrew P. Cooper , Sergey E. Koposov , Carlos Allende Prieto , Christopher J. Manser , Namitha Kizhuprakkat , Adam D. Myers , Arjun Dey , Boris T. Gaensicke , Ting S. Li , Constance Rockosi , Monica Valluri , Joan Najita , Alis Deason , Anand Raichoor , Mei-Yu Wang , Yuan-Sen Ting , Bokyoung Kim , Andreia Carrillo , Wenting Wang , Leandro Beraldo e Silva , Jiwon Jesse Han , Jiani Ding , Miguel Sanchez-Conde , Jessica N. Aguilar , Steven Ahlen , Stephen Bailey , Vasily Belokurov , David Brooks , Katia Cunha , Kyle Dawson , Axel de la Macorra , Peter Doel , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Parker Fagrelius , Kevin Fanning , Andreu Font-Ribera , Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Enrique Gaztanaga , Satya Gontcho A Gontcho , Julien Guy , Klaus Honscheid , Robert Kehoe , Theodore Kisner , Anthony Kremin , Martin Landriau , Michael E. Levi , Paul Martini , Aaron M. Meisner , Ramon Miquel , John Moustakas , Jundan Nie , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Will J. Percival , Claire Poppett , Francisco Prada , Nabeel Rehemtulla , Edward Schlafly , David Schlegel , Michael Schubnell , Ray M. Sharples , Gregory Tarle , Risa H. Wechsler , David H. Weinberg , Zhimin Zhou , Hu Zou

Testing the 10 spectrograph units for DESI: approach and results

The recently commissioned Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will measure the expansion history of the Universe using the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation technique. The spectra of 35 million galaxies and quasars over 14000 sqdeg will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-29 S. Perruchot , P. -E. Blanc , J. Guy , L. Le Guillou , S. Ronayette , X. Régal , G. Castagnoli , A. Le Van Suu , E. Sepulveda , E. Jullo , J. -G. Cuby , S. Karkar , P. Ghislain , P. Repain , P. -H. Carton , C. Magneville , A. Ealet , S. Escoffier , A. Secroun , K. Honscheid , A. Elliot , P. Jelinsky , D. Brooks , P. Doel , Y. Duan , J. Edelstein , J. C. Estrada , E. Gastañaga , A. Karcher , M. Landriau , M. Levi , P. Martini , P. , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , F. Prada , G. Tarle , K. Zhang

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing

We present galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements from 1321 sq. deg. of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 1 (Y1) data. The lens sample consists of a selection of 660,000 red galaxies with high-precision photometric redshifts, known as redMaGiC,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 J. Prat , C. Sánchez , Y. Fang , D. Gruen , J. Elvin-Poole , N. Kokron , L. F. Secco , B. Jain , R. Miquel , N. MacCrann , M. A. Troxel , A. Alarcon , D. Bacon , G. M. Bernstein , J. Blazek , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , M. Crocce , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , J. P. Dietrich , A. Drlica-Wagner , O. Friedrich , M. Gatti , W. G. Hartley , B. Hoyle , E. M. Huff , M. Jarvis , M. M. Rau , R. P. Rollins , A. J. Ross , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , S. Samuroff , E. Sheldon , T. N. Varga , P. Vielzeuf , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , J. Annis , K. Bechtol , A. Benoit-Lévy , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , T. F. Eifler , E. Fernandez , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , D. A. Goldstein , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , D. Kirk , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , J. J. Mohr , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Smith , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , R. H. Wechsler , B. Yanny , Y. Zhang

Performance of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument(DESI) Fiber System

The recently commissioned Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will measure the expansion historyof the universe using the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation technique. The spectra of 35 million galaxies and quasarsover 14000 sq deg will be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-24 Claire Poppett , Patrick Jelinsky , Julien Guy , Jerry Edelstein , Sharon Jelinsky , Jessica Aguilar , Ray Sharples , Jurgen Schmoll , David Bramall , Luke Tyas , Paul Martini , Kevin Fanning , Michael Levi , David Brooks , Peter Doel , Duan Yutong , Gregory Tarle , Erique Gaztanaga , Francisco Prada , the DESI Collaboration

Deep Drilling in the Time Domain with DECam: Survey Characterization

This paper presents a new optical imaging survey of four deep drilling fields (DDFs), two Galactic and two extragalactic, with the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the 4 meter Blanco telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Melissa L. Graham , Robert A. Knop , Thomas Kennedy , Peter E. Nugent , Eric Bellm , Márcio Catelan , Avi Patel , Hayden Smotherman , Monika Soraisam , Steven Stetzler , Lauren N. Aldoroty , Autumn Awbrey , Karina Baeza-Villagra , Pedro H. Bernardinelli , Federica Bianco , Dillon Brout , Riley Clarke , William I. Clarkson , Thomas Collett , James R. A. Davenport , Shenming Fu , John E. Gizis , Ari Heinze , Lei Hu , Saurabh W. Jha , Mario Jurić , J. Bryce Kalmbach , Alex Kim , Chien-Hsiu Lee , Chris Lidman , Mark Magee , Clara E. Martínez-Vázquez , Thomas Matheson , Gautham Narayan , Antonella Palmese , Christopher A. Phillips , Markus Rabus , Armin Rest , Nicolás Rodríguez-Segovia , Rachel Street , A. Katherina Vivas , Lifan Wang , Nicholas Wolf , Jiawen Yang

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Cosmology from galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing in harmonic space

We present the joint tomographic analysis of galaxy-galaxy lensing and galaxy clustering in harmonic space, using galaxy catalogues from the first three years of observations by the Dark Energy Survey (DES Y3). We utilise the redMaGiC and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-19 L. Faga , F. Andrade-Oliveira , H. Camacho , R. Rosenfeld , M. Lima , C. Doux , X. Fang , J. Prat , A. Porredon , M. Aguena , A. Alarcon , S. Allam , O. Alves , A. Amon , S. Avila , D. Bacon , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , R. Chen , A. Choi , J. Cordero , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , J. DeRose , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , A. Drlica-Wagner , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , I. Ferrero , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , G. Giannini , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , I. Harrison , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , T. Jeltema , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , S. Lee , C. Lidman , N. MacCrann , J. L. Marshall , J. McCullough , J. Mena-Fernández , R. Miquel , J. Myles , A. Navarro-Alsina , A. Palmese , S. Pandey , M. Paterno , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , M. Raveri , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , R. P. Rollins , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , S. Samuroff , C. Sánchez , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , M. Schubnell , L. F. Secco , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , M. A. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , N. Weaverdyck , P. Wiseman , B. Yanny , B. Yin

The DECADE cosmic shear project II: photometric redshift calibration of the source galaxy sample

We present the photometric redshift characterization and calibration for the Dark Energy Camera All Data Everywhere (DECADE) weak lensing dataset: a catalog of 107 million galaxies observed by the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) in the northern…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-24 D. Anbajagane , A. Alarcon , R. Teixeira , C. Chang , L. F. Secco , C. Y. Tan , A. Drlica-Wagner , M. Adamow , R. A. Gruendl , G. Giannini , M. R. Becker , P. S. Ferguson , N. Chicoine , Z. Zhang , K. Herron , D. Suson , A. N. Alsina , A. Amon , C. R. Bom , J. A. Carballo-Bello , W. Cerny , A. Choi , Y. Choi , C. Doux , K. Eckert , M. Gatti , D. Gruen , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , E. M. Huff , D. J. James , N. Kuropatkin , C. E. Martínez-Vázquez , P. Massana , S. Mau , J. McCullough , G. E. Medina , B. Mutlu-Pakdil , J. Myles , M. Navabi , N. E. D. Noël , A. B. Pace , M. Raveri , A. H. Riley , J. D. Sakowska , D. Sanchez-Cid , D. J. Sand , L. Santana-Silva , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Soares-Santos , G. S. Stringfellow , A. K. Vivas , M. Yamamoto

The Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM) Omega

[JDEM-Omega is one of the three concepts that contributed to the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission advocated by the Astro2010 Decadal Survey. It is the concept on which the recommended observatory configuration is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-31 Neil Gehrels

Target Selection and Validation of DESI Quasars

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey will measure large-scale structures using quasars as direct tracers of dark matter in the redshift range 0.9<z<2.1 and using Ly-alpha forests in quasar spectra at z>2.1. We present…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Edmond Chaussidon , Christophe Yèche , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , David M. Alexander , Jinyi Yang , Steven Ahlen , Stephen. Bailey , David Brooks , Zheng Cai , Solène Chabanier , Tamara M. Davis , Kyle Dawson , Axel de la Macorra , Arjun Dey , Biprateep Dey , Sarah Eftekharzadeh , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Kevin Fanning , Andreu Font-Ribera , Enrique Gaztañaga , Satya Gontcho A Gontcho , Alma X. Gonzalez-Morales , Julien Guy , Hiram K. Herrera-Alcantar , Klaus Honscheid , Mustapha Ishak , Linhua Jiang , Stephanie Juneau , Robert Kehoe , Theodore Kisner , Andras Kovács , Anthony Kremin , Ting-Wen Lan , Martin Landriau , Laurent Le Guillou , Michael E. Levi , Christophe Magneville , Paul Martini , Aaron M. Meisner , John Moustakas , Andrea Muñoz-Gutiérrez , Adam D. Myers , Jeffrey A. Newman , Jundan Nie , Will J. Percival , Claire Poppett , Francisco Prada , Anand Raichoor , Corentin Ravoux , Ashley J. Ross , Edward Schlafly , David Schlegel , Ting Tan , Gregory Tarlé , Rongpu Zhou , Zhimin Zhou , Hu Zou

The Target-selection Pipeline for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

In 2021 May, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) began a 5 yr survey of approximately 50 million total extragalactic and Galactic targets. The primary DESI dark-time targets are emission line galaxies (ELGs), luminous red…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Adam D. Myers , John Moustakas , Stephen Bailey , Benjamin A. Weaver , Andrew P. Cooper , Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Bela Abolfathi , David M. Alexander , David Brooks , Edmond Chaussidon , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Kyle Dawson , Arjun Dey , Biprateep Dey , Govinda Dhungana , Peter Doel , Kevin Fanning , Enrique Gaztañaga , Satya Gontcho A Gontcho , Alma X. Gonzalez-Morales , ChangHoon Hahn , Hiram K. Herrera-Alcantar , Klaus Honscheid , Mustapha Ishak , Tanveer Karim , David Kirkby , Theodore Kisner , Sergey E. Koposov , Anthony Kremin , Ting-Wen Lan , Martin Landriau , Dustin Lang , Michael E. Levi , Christophe Magneville , Lucas Napolitano , Paul Martini , Aaron Meisner , Jeffrey A. Newman , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Will Percival , Claire Poppett , Francisco Prada , Anand Raichoor , Ashley J. Ross , Edward F. Schlafly , David Schlegel , Michael Schubnell , Ting Tan , Gregory Tarle , Michael J. Wilson , Christophe Yèche , Rongpu Zhou , Zhimin Zhou , Hu Zou