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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, in particular Variational Autoencoders (VAE), can detect…

This white paper gives an overview of the proposed Gemini/Subaru Wide-Field Multi-Object Spectrograph (WFMOS) and the proposed redshift surveys of 2.6 million galaxies with 0.5<z<3.3 over 2000 deg^2 of sky. These surveys will probe the…

In preparation for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a new top end was installed on the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. The refurbished telescope and the DESI instrument were successfully…

The Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS) is a wide-field two-band photometric survey of the Northern Galactic Cap using the 90Prime imager on the 2.3 m Bok telescope at Kitt Peak. It is a four-year collaboration between the National…

This manuscript revisits the phenomenological emergent dark energy model (PEDE) by confronting it with recent cosmological data from early and late times. In particular we analyze PEDE model by using the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-11 A. Hernández-Almada , M. L. Mendoza-Martínez , Miguel A. García-Aspeitia , V. Motta

We present the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) measurements with the Lyman-alpha (LyA) forest from the second data release (DR2) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey. Our BAO measurements include both the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-01 DESI Collaboration , M. Abdul-Karim , J. Aguilar , S. Ahlen , C. Allende Prieto , O. Alves , A. Anand , U. Andrade , E. Armengaud , A. Aviles , S. Bailey , A. Bault , J. Behera , S. BenZvi , D. Bianchi , C. Blake , A. Brodzeller , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , E. Burtin , R. Calderon , R. Canning , A. Carnero Rosell , P. Carrilho , L. Casas , F. J. Castander , R. Cereskaite , M. Charles , E. Chaussidon , J. Chaves-Montero , D. Chebat , T. Claybaugh , S. Cole , A. P. Cooper , A. Cuceu , K. S. Dawson , R. de Belsunce , A. de la Macorra , A. de Mattia , N. Deiosso , J. Della Costa , A. Dey , B. Dey , Z. Ding , P. Doel , J. Edelstein , D. J. Eisenstein , W. Elbers , P. Fagrelius , K. Fanning , S. Ferraro , A. Font-Ribera , J. E. Forero-Romero , C. Garcia-Quintero , L. H. Garrison , E. Gaztañaga , H. Gil-Marín , S. Gontcho A Gontcho , A. X. Gonzalez-Morales , C. Gordon , D. Green , G. Gutierrez , J. Guy , C. Hahn , M. Herbold , H. K. Herrera-Alcantar , M. -F. Ho , K. Honscheid , C. Howlett , D. Huterer , M. Ishak , S. Juneau , N. G. Karaçaylı , R. Kehoe , S. Kent , D. Kirkby , T. Kisner , F. -S. Kitaura , S. E. Koposov , A. Kremin , O. Lahav , C. Lamman , M. Landriau , D. Lang , J. Lasker , J. M. Le Goff , L. Le Guillou , A. Leauthaud , M. E. Levi , Q. Li , T. S. Li , K. Lodha , M. Lokken , C. Magneville , M. Manera , P. Martini , W. L. Matthewson , P. McDonald , A. Meisner , J. Mena-Fernández , R. Miquel , J. Moustakas , D. Muñoz Santos , A. Muñoz-Gutiérrez , A. D. Myers , J. A. Newman , G. Niz , H. E. Noriega , E. Paillas , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , J. Pan , W. J. Percival , I. Pérez-Ràfols , M. M. Pieri , C. Poppett , F. Prada , D. Rabinowitz , A. Raichoor , C. Ramírez-Pérez , M. Rashkovetskyi , C. Ravoux , J. Rich , C. Rockosi , A. J. Ross , G. Rossi , V. Ruhlmann-Kleider , E. Sanchez , N. Sanders , S. Satyavolu , D. Schlegel , M. Schubnell , H. Seo , A. Shafieloo , R. Sharples , J. Silber , F. Sinigaglia , D. Sprayberry , T. Tan , G. Tarlé , P. Taylor , W. Turner , F. Valdes , M. Vargas-Magaña , M. Walther , B. A. Weaver , M. Wolfson , C. Yèche , P. Zarrouk , R. Zhou , H. Zou

The expansion of the universe appears to be accelerating, and the mysterious anti-gravity agent of this acceleration has been called ``dark energy''. To measure the dynamics of dark energy, Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) can be used.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tzu-Ching Chang , Ue-Li Pen , Jeffrey B. Peterson , Patrick McDonald

In the large-scale, Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), thousands of fiber positioners will be used. Those are robotic positioners, with two axis, and having the size of a pen. They are tightly packed on the focal plane of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Laurent Jenni , Philipp Hörler , Laleh Makarem , Jean-Paul Kneib , Denis Gillet , Hannes Bleuler , Mohamed Bouri , Francisco Prada , Guillermo De Rivera , Justo Sanchez

We examine the prospects for the next generation of surveys aimed at elucidating the nature of dark energy. We review the methods that can be used to determine the redshift evolution of the dark energy equation of state parameter w,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Roberto Trotta , Richard Bower

We present the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Strong Lens Foundry. We discovered $\sim 3500$ new strong gravitational lens candidates in the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys using residual neural networks (ResNet). We observed a…

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) observations, when combined with Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and Type Ia supernovae (SNe), have led to statistically significant dynamical dark energy (DDE) claims. In this letter we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-28 Eoin Ó Colgáin , M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari

We present a Dark Energy (DE) model with a sound derivation as a natural extension of the Standard Model of particle physics with no free parameters and an excellent fit with current cosmological data improving by 21% the $\Lambda$CDM fit…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 A. de la Macorra , E. Almaraz

The SXI telescope is one of the three instruments on board EXIST, a multiwavelength observatory in charge of performing a global survey of the sky in hard X-rays searching for Supermassive Black Holes. One of the primary objectives of EXIST…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 L. Natalucci , A. Bazzano , S. Campana , P. Caraveo , R. Della Ceca , J. E. Grindlay , F. Panessa , G. Pareschi , B. Ramsey , G. Tagliaferri , P. Ubertini , G. Villa

Here, we present the angular diameter distance measurement obtained from the measurement of the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature using the completed Dark Energy Survey (DES) data, summarizing the main results of [Phys. Rev. D…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-16 Juan Mena-Fernández , Dark Energy Survey Collaboration

We investigate potential deviations from cold dark matter (CDM) using the latest Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) measurements from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). Analyzing DESI data alone constrains the dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-22 Utkarsh Kumar , Abhijith Ajith , Amresh Verma

The Dark Energy Survey collaboration will study cosmic acceleration with a 5000 deg2 griZY survey in the southern sky over 525 nights from 2011-2016. The DES data management (DESDM) system will be used to process and archive these data and…

The Echellette Spectrograph and Imager (ESI) is a multipurpose instrument which has been delivered by the Instrument Development Laboratory of Lick Observatory for use at the Cassegrain focus of the Keck II telescope. ESI saw first light on…

Galaxy redshift surveys using optical telescopes have, in combination with other cosmological probes, enabled precision measurements of the nature of dark energy. We show that radio telescopes are rapidly becoming competitive with optical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-07 Alan R. Duffy

Combined cosmological probes currently indicate that best-fit values in the $w_0-w_a$ parametrization of dynamical dark energy deviate from $\Lambda$CDM by $\sim3\sigma$. In this work, we present a supernova survey capable of measuring…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-22 Jannik Truong , Greg Aldering , Saul Perlmutter , David Rubin , David Schlegel

A fundamental question in cosmology is whether dark energy evolves over time, a topic that has gained prominence since the discovery of cosmic acceleration. Recently, the DESI collaboration has reported increasing evidence for evolving dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-21 Deng Wang , David Mota