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The observations from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will significantly increase the numbers of known extremely metal-poor stars by a factor of ~ 10, improving the sample statistics to study the early chemical evolution of…
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics
2023-10-30
Carlos Allende Prieto , David S. Aguado , Jonay I. González Hernández , Rafael Rebolo , Joan Najita , Christopher J. Manser , Constance Rockosi , Zachary Slepian , Mar Mezcua , Monica Valluri , Rana Ezzeddine , Sergey E. Koposov , Andrew P. Cooper , Arjun Dey , Boris T. Gänsicke , Ting S. Li , Katia Cunha , Siwei Zou , Jessica Nicole Aguilar , Steven Ahlen , David Brooks , Todd Claybaugh , Shaun Cole , Sarah Eftekharzadeh , Kevin Fanning , Jaime Forero-Romero , Satya Gontcho A Gontcho , Klaus Honscheid , Pascale Jablonka , Robert Kehoe , Theodore Kisner , Martin Landriau , Axel de la Macorra , Aaron Meisner , Ramón Miquel , John Moustakas , Jundan Nie , Claire Poppett , Francisco Prada , Mehdi Rezaie , Graziano Rossi , Eusebio Sánchez , Michael Schubnell , Ray Sharples , Malgorzata Siudek , Verne V. Smith , Gregory Tarlé , Fiorenzo Vincenzo , Benjamin Alan Weaver , Zhimin Zhou , Hu Zou
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) completed its five-month Survey Validation in May 2021. Spectra of stellar and extragalactic targets from Survey Validation constitute the first major data sample from the DESI survey. This…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2024-10-18
DESI Collaboration , A. G. Adame , J. Aguilar , S. Ahlen , S. Alam , G. Aldering , D. M. Alexander , R. Alfarsy , C. Allende Prieto , M. Alvarez , O. Alves , A. Anand , F. Andrade-Oliveira , E. Armengaud , J. Asorey , S. Avila , A. Aviles , S. Bailey , A. Balaguera-Antolínez , O. Ballester , C. Baltay , A. Bault , J. Bautista , J. Behera , S. F. Beltran , S. BenZvi , L. Beraldo e Silva , J. R. Bermejo-Climent , A. Berti , R. Besuner , F. Beutler , D. Bianchi , C. Blake , R. Blum , A. S. Bolton , S. Brieden , A. Brodzeller , D. Brooks , Z. Brown , E. Buckley-Geer , E. Burtin , L. Cabayol-Garcia , Z. Cai , R. Canning , L. Cardiel-Sas , A. Carnero Rosell , F. J. Castander , J. L. Cervantes-Cota , S. Chabanier , E. Chaussidon , J. Chaves-Montero , S. Chen , X. Chen , C. Chuang , T. Claybaugh , S. Cole , A. P. Cooper , A. Cuceu , T. M. Davis , K. Dawson , R. de Belsunce , R. de la Cruz , A. de la Macorra , J. Della Costa , A. de Mattia , R. Demina , U. Demirbozan , J. DeRose , A. Dey , B. Dey , G. Dhungana , J. Ding , Z. Ding , P. Doel , R. Doshi , K. Douglass , A. Edge , S. Eftekharzadeh , D. J. Eisenstein , A. Elliott , S. Escoffier , P. Fagrelius , X. Fan , K. Fanning , V. A. Fawcett , S. Ferraro , J. Ereza , B. Flaugher , A. Font-Ribera , D. Forero-Sánchez , J. E. Forero-Romero , C. S. Frenk , B. T. Gänsicke , L. Á. García , J. García-Bellido , C. Garcia-Quintero , L. H. Garrison , H. Gil-Marín , J. Golden-Marx , S. Gontcho A Gontcho , A. X. Gonzalez-Morales , V. Gonzalez-Perez , C. Gordon , O. Graur , D. Green , D. Gruen , J. Guy , B. Hadzhiyska , C. Hahn , J. J. Han , M. M. S Hanif , H. K. Herrera-Alcantar , K. Honscheid , J. Hou , C. Howlett , D. Huterer , V. Iršič , M. Ishak , A. Jacques , A. Jana , L. Jiang , J. Jimenez , Y. P. Jing , S. Joudaki , E. Jullo , S. Juneau , N. Kizhuprakkat , N. G. Karaçaylı , T. Karim , R. Kehoe , S. Kent , A. Khederlarian , S. Kim , D. Kirkby , T. Kisner , F. Kitaura , J. Kneib , S. E. Koposov , A. Kovács , A. Kremin , A. Krolewski , B. L'Huillier , O. Lahav , A. Lambert , C. Lamman , T. -W. Lan , M. Landriau , D. Lang , J. U. Lange , J. Lasker , A. Leauthaud , L. Le Guillou , M. E. Levi , T. S. Li , E. Linder , A. Lyons , C. Magneville , M. Manera , C. J. Manser , D. Margala , P. Martini , P. McDonald , G. E. Medina , L. Medina-Varela , A. Meisner , J. Mena-Fernández , J. Meneses-Rizo , M. Mezcua , R. Miquel , P. Montero-Camacho , J. Moon , S. Moore , J. Moustakas , E. Mueller , J. Mundet , A. Muñoz-Gutiérrez , A. D. Myers , S. Nadathur , L. Napolitano , R. Neveux , J. A. Newman , J. Nie , R. Nikutta , G. Niz , P. Norberg , H. E. Noriega , E. Paillas , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , A. Palmese , P. Zhiwei , D. Parkinson , S. Penmetsa , W. J. Percival , A. Pérez-Fernández , I. Pérez-Ràfols , M. Pieri , C. Poppett , A. Porredon , S. Pothier , F. Prada , R. Pucha , A. Raichoor , C. Ramírez-Pérez , S. Ramirez-Solano , M. Rashkovetskyi , C. Ravoux , A. Rocher , C. Rockosi , A. J. Ross , G. Rossi , R. Ruggeri , V. Ruhlmann-Kleider , C. G. Sabiu , K. Said , A. Saintonge , L. Samushia , E. Sanchez , C. Saulder , E. Schaan , E. F. Schlafly , D. Schlegel , D. Scholte , M. Schubnell , H. Seo , A. Shafieloo , R. Sharples , W. Sheu , J. Silber , F. Sinigaglia , M. Siudek , Z. Slepian , A. Smith , M. T. Soumagnac , D. Sprayberry , L. Stephey , J. Suárez-Pérez , Z. Sun , T. Tan , G. Tarlé , R. Tojeiro , L. A. Ureña-López , R. Vaisakh , D. Valcin , F. Valdes , M. Valluri , M. Vargas-Magaña , A. Variu , L. Verde , M. Walther , B. Wang , M. S. Wang , B. A. Weaver , N. Weaverdyck , R. H. Wechsler , M. White , Y. Xie , J. Yang , C. Yèche , J. Yu , S. Yuan , H. Zhang , Z. Zhang , C. Zhao , Z. Zheng , R. Zhou , Z. Zhou , H. Zou , S. Zou , Y. Zu
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
The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a five-year optical imaging campaign with the goal of understanding the origin of cosmic acceleration. DES performs a 5000 square degree survey of the southern sky in five optical bands (g,r,i,z,Y) to a depth…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2018-05-23
E. Morganson , R. A. Gruendl , F. Menanteau , M. Carrasco Kind , Y. -C. Chen , G. Daues , A. Drlica-Wagner , D. N. Friedel , M. Gower , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , R. Kessler , F. Paz-Chinchón , D. Petravick , C. Pond , B. Yanny , S. Allam , R. Armstrong , W. Barkhouse , K. Bechtol , A. Benoit-Lévy , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , E. Buckley-Geer , R. Covarrubias , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , D. A. Goldstein , D. Gruen , T. S. Li , H. Lin , J. Marriner , J. J. Mohr , E. Neilsen , C. -C. Ngeow , K. Paech , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , F. Sobreira , D. L. Tucker , W. Wester
The Dark Energy Survey (DES) will use a new imaging camera on the Blanco 4-m telescope at CTIO to image 5000 square degrees of sky in the South Galactic Cap in four optical bands, and to carry out repeat imaging over a smaller area to…
Astrophysics · Physics
2007-05-23
James Annis , Sarah Bridle , Francisco J. Castander , August E. Evrard , Pablo Fosalba , Joshua A. Frieman , Enrique Gaztanaga , Bhuvnesh Jain , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Ofer Lahav , Huan Lin , Joseph Mohr , Albert Stebbins , Terence P. Walker , Risa H. Wechsler , David H. Weinberg , Jochen Weller
Accurate redshift estimates are a critical requirement for weak lensing surveys and one of the main uncertainties in constraints on dark energy and large-scale cosmic structure. In this paper, we study the potential to calibrate photometric…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2025-12-23
Diana Blanco , Alexie Leauthaud , Johannes Ulf Lange , Angus H. Wright , Hendrik Hildebrandt , Sven Heydenreich , Darshika Ravulapalli , Joshua Ratajczak , Kyle S. Dawson , Jamie McCullough , Biprateep Dey , Jessica N. Aguilar , Steven Ahlen , Abhijeet Anand , Davide Bianchi , Chris Blake , David Brooks , Francisco J. Castander , Todd Claybaugh , Andrei Cuceu , Axel de la Macorra , John Della Costa , Arjun Dey , Ann Elliott , Ni Putu Audita Placida Emas , Simone Ferraro , Andreu Font-Ribera , Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Cristhian Garcia-Quintero , Enrique Gaztañaga , Satya Gontcho A Gontcho , Gaston Gutierrez , Dragan Huterer , Mustapha Ishak , Jorge Jimenez , Shahab Joudaki , Dick Joyce , Stephanie Juneau , David Kirkby , Anthony Kremin , Alex Krolewski , Claire Lamman , Martin Landriau , Laurent Le Guillou , Marc Manera , Aaron Meisner , Ramon Miquel , John Moustakas , Seshadri Nadathur , Jeffrey A. Newman , Will Percival , Anna Porredon , Francisco Prada , Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols , Amy Robertson , Graziano Rossi , Eusebio Sanchez , Christoph Saulder , Agne Semenaite , David Schlegel , Hee-Jong Seo , Joseph H. Silber , David Sprayberry , Gregory Tarlé , Benjamin A. Weaver , Rongpu Zhou , Hu Zou
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
Large sets of objects with spectroscopic redshift measurements will be needed for imaging dark energy experiments to achieve their full potential, serving two goals:_training_, i.e., the use of objects with known redshift to develop and…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2016-05-25
J. Newman , A. Abate , F. Abdalla , S. Allam , S. Allen , R. Ansari , S. Bailey , W. Barkhouse , T. Beers , M. Blanton , M. Brodwin , J. Brownstein , R. Brunner , M. Carrasco-Kind , J. Cervantes-Cota , E. Chisari , M. Colless , J. Comparat , J. Coupon , E. Cheu , C. Cunha , A. de la Macorra , I. Dell'Antonio , B. Frye , E. Gawiser , N. Gehrels , K. Grady , A. Hagen , P. Hall , A. Hearin , H. Hildebrandt , C. Hirata , S. Ho , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , Z. Ivezic , J. -P. Kneib , J. Kruk , O. Lahav , R. Mandelbaum , J. Marshall , D. Matthews , B. Ménard , R. Miquel , M. Moniez , W. Moos , J. Moustakas , C. Papovich , J. Peacock , C. Park , J. Rhodes , J-S. Ricol , I. Sadeh , A. Slozar , S. Schmidt , D. Stern , T. Tyson , A. von der Linden , R. Wechsler , W. Wood-Vasey , A. Zentner
We describe the Dark Energy Survey (DES), a proposed optical-near infrared survey of 5000 sq. deg of the South Galactic Cap to ~24th magnitude in SDSS griz, that would use a new 3 sq. deg CCD camera to be mounted on the Blanco 4-m telescope…
Telescope Point Spread Function (PSF) quality is critical for realising the potential of cosmic weak lensing observations to constrain dark energy and test General Relativity. In this paper we use quantitative weak gravitational lensing…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2015-06-05
Michelle L. Antonik , David J. Bacon , Sarah Bridle , Peter Doel , David Brooks , Sue Worswick , Gary Bernstein , Rebecca Bernstein , Darren DePoy , Brenna Flaugher , Joshua A. Frieman , Michael Gladders , Gaston Gutierrez , Bhuvnesh Jain , Michael Jarvis , Stephen M. Kent , Ofer Lahav , Aaron Roodman , Alistair R. Walker
The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys are a combination of three public projects (the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey, the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey, and the Mayall z-band Legacy Survey) that will jointly image approximately 14,000 deg^2 of the…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2019-04-17
Arjun Dey , David J. Schlegel , Dustin Lang , Robert Blum , Kaylan Burleigh , Xiaohui Fan , Joseph R. Findlay , Doug Finkbeiner , David Herrera , Stephanie Juneau , Martin Landriau , Michael Levi , Ian McGreer , Aaron Meisner , Adam D. Myers , John Moustakas , Peter Nugent , Anna Patej , Edward F. Schlafly , Alistair R. Walker , Francisco Valdes , Benjamin A. Weaver , Christophe Yeche Hu Zou , Xu Zhou , Behzad Abareshi , T. M. C. Abbott , Bela Abolfathi , C. Aguilera , Shadab Alam , Lori Allen , A. Alvarez , James Annis , Behzad Ansarinejad , Marie Aubert , Jacqueline Beechert , Eric F. Bell , Segev Y. BenZvi , Florian Beutler , Richard M. Bielby , Adam S. Bolton , Cesar Briceno Elizabeth J. Buckley-Geer , Karen Butler , Annalisa Calamida , Raymond G. Carlberg , Paul Carter , Ricard Casas , Francisco J. Castander , Yumi Choi , Johan Comparat , Elena Cukanovaite , Timothee Delubac , Kaitlin DeVries , Sharmila Dey , Govinda Dhungana , Mark Dickinson , Zhejie Ding , John B. Donaldson , Yutong Duan , Christopher J. Duckworth , Sarah Eftekharzadeh , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Thomas Etourneau , Parker A. Fagrelius , Jay Farihi , Mike Fitzpatrick , Andreu Font-Ribera , Leah Fulmer , Boris T. Gansicke , Enrique Gaztanaga , Koshy George , David W. Gerdes , Satya Gontcho A Gontcho , Claudio Gorgoni , Gregory Green , Julien Guy , Diane Harmer , M. Hernandez , Klaus Honscheid , Lijuan , Huang , David James , Buell T. Jannuzi , Linhua Jiang , Richard Joyce , Armin Karcher , Sonia Karkar , Robert Kehoe , Jean-Paul Kneib , Andrea Kueter-Young , Ting-Wen Lan , Tod Lauer , Laurent Le Guillou , Auguste Le Van Suu , Jae Hyeon Lee , Michael Lesser , Laurence Perreault Levasseur , Ting S. Li , Justin L. Mann , Bob Marshall , C. E. Martinez-Vazquez , Paul Martini , Helion du Mas des Bourboux , Sean McManus , Tobias Gabriel Meier , Brice Menard , Nigel Metcalfe , Andrea Munoz-Gutierrez , Joan Najita , Kevin Napier , Gautham Narayan , Jeffrey A. Newman , Jundan Nie , Brian Nord , Dara J. Norman , Knut A. G. Olsen , Anthony Paat , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Xiyan Peng , Claire L. Poppett , Megan R. Poremba , Abhishek Prakash , David Rabinowitz , Anand Raichoor , Mehdi Rezaie , A. N. Robertson , Natalie A. Roe , Ashley J. Ross , Nicholas P. Ross , Gregory Rudnick , Sasha Safonova , Abhijit Saha , F. Javier Sanchez , Elodie Savary , Heidi Schweiker , Adam Scott , Hee-Jong Seo , Huanyuan Shan , David R. Silva , Zachary Slepian , Christian Soto , David Sprayberry , Ryan Staten , Coley M. Stillman , Robert J. Stupak , David L. Summers , Suk Sien Tie , H. Tirado , Mariana Vargas-Magana , A. Katherina Vivas , Risa H. Wechsler , Doug Williams , Jinyi Yang , Qian Yang , Tolga Yapici , Dennis Zaritsky , A. Zenteno , Kai Zhang , Tianmeng Zhang , Rongpu Zhou , Zhimin Zhou
The DESI survey will measure large-scale structure using quasars as direct tracers of dark matter in the redshift range $0.9<z<2.1$ and using quasar Ly-$\alpha$ forests at $z>2.1$. We present two methods to select candidate quasars for DESI…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2020-10-23
Christophe Yèche , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Charles-Antoine Claveau , David D. Brooks , Edmond Chaussidon , Tamara M. Davis , Kyle S. Dawson , Arjun Dey , Yutong Duan , Sarah Eftekharzadeh , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Enrique Gaztañaga , Robert Kehoe , Martin Landriau , Dustin Lang , Michael E. Levi , Aaron M. Meisner , Adam D. Myers , Jeffrey A. Newman , Claire Poppett , Francisco Prada , Anand Raichoor , David J. Schlegel , Michael Schubnell , Ryan Staten , Gregory Tarlé , Rongpu Zhou
The effective redshift distribution $n(z)$ of galaxies is a critical component in the study of weak gravitational lensing. Here, we introduce a new method for determining $n(z)$ for weak lensing surveys based on high-quality redshifts and…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2025-12-30
Johannes U. Lange , Diana Blanco , Alexie Leauthaud , Angus Wright , Abigail Fisher , Joshua Ratajczak , Jessica Nicole Aguilar , Steven Ahlen , Stephen Bailey , Davide Bianchi , Chris Blake , David Brooks , Todd Claybaugh , Andrei Cuceu , Kyle Dawson , Axel de la Macorra , Joseph DeRose , Arjun Dey , Peter Doel , Ni Putu Audita Placida Emas , Simone Ferraro , Andreu Font-Ribera , Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Cristhian Garcia-Quintero , Enrique Gaztañaga , Satya Gontcho A Gontcho , Gaston Gutierrez , Sven Heydenreich , Hendrik Hildebrandt , Mustapha Ishak , Jorge Jimenez , Shahab Joudaki , Robert Kehoe , David Kirkby , Theodore Kisner , Anthony Kremin , Ofer Lahav , Claire Lamman , Martin Landriau , Laurent Le Guillou , Michael Levi , Leonel Medina Varela , Aaron Meisner , Ramon Miquel , John Moustakas , Seshadri Nadathur , Jeffrey A. Newman , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Anna Porredon , Francisco Prada , Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols , Graziano Rossi , Rossana Ruggeri , Eusebio Sanchez , Christoph Saulder , David Schlegel , Michael Schubnell , David Sprayberry , Zechang Sun , Gregory Tarlé , Benjamin Alan Weaver , Sihan Yuan , Pauline Zarrouk , Hu Zou
The Milky Way Backup Program (MWBP), a survey currently underway with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) on the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-m Telescope, works at the margins of the DESI Main surveys to obtain spectra of millions of…
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics
2025-05-26
Arjun Dey , Sergey E. Koposov , Joan R. Najita , Andrew P. Cooper , B. T. Gänsicke , Adam D. Myers , A. Raichoor , Daniel J. Eisenstein , E. F. Schlafly , C. Allende Prieto , Leandro Beraldo e Silva , Ting S. Li , M. Valluri , Stéphanie Juneau , Mika Lambert , S. Li , Guillaume F. Thomas , Wenting Wang , Alexander H. Riley , N. Kizhuprakkat , J. Aguilar , S. Ahlen , S. Bailey , D. Bianchi , D. Brooks , T. Claybaugh , A. Cuceu , A. de la Macorra , J. Della Costa , Biprateep Dey , P. Doel , A. Font-Ribera , J. E. Forero-Romero , E. Gaztañaga , S. Gontcho A Gontcho , G. Gutierrez , J. Guy , C. Hahn , K. Honscheid , M. Ishak , J. Jimenez , R. Kehoe , D. Kirkby , T. Kisner , A. Kremin , C. Lamman , M. Landriau , L. Le Guillou , M. E. Levi , M. Manera , P. Martini , A. Meisner , R. Miquel , J. Moustakas , S. Nadathur , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , W. J. Percival , F. Prada , I. Pérez-Ràfols , G. Rossi , E. Sanchez , M. Schubnell , J. Silber , D. Sprayberry , G. Tarlé , B. A. Weaver , R. H. Wechsler , R. Zhou , H. Zou
In 2021 May the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration began a 5-year spectroscopic redshift survey to produce a detailed map of the evolving three-dimensional structure of the universe between $z=0$ and $z\approx4$.…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2026-03-06
DESI Collaboration , M. Abdul Karim , A. G. Adame , D. Aguado , J. Aguilar , S. Ahlen , S. Alam , G. Aldering , D. M. Alexander , R. Alfarsy , L. Allen , C. Allende Prieto , O. Alves , A. Anand , U. Andrade , E. Armengaud , S. Avila , A. Aviles , H. Awan , S. Bailey , A. Baleato Lizancos , O. Ballester , A. Bault , J. Bautista , R. Bean , J. Behera , S. BenZvi , L. Beraldo e Silva , J. R. Bermejo-Climent , F. Beutler , D. Bianchi , C. Blake , R. Blum , A. S. Bolton , M. Bonici , S. Brieden , A. Brodzeller , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , E. Burtin , A. Byström , R. Canning , A. Carnero Rosell , A. Carr , P. Carrilho , L. Casas , F. J. Castander , R. Cereskaite , J. L. Cervantes-Cota , E. Chaussidon , J. Chaves-Montero , S. Chen , X. Chen , C. Circosta , T. Claybaugh , S. Cole , A. P. Cooper , M. -C. Cousinou , A. Cuceu , T. M. Davis , K. S. Dawson , R. de Belsunce , R. de la Cruz , A. de la Macorra , A. de Mattia , N. Deiosso , J. Della Costa , R. Demina , U. Demirbozan , J. DeRose , A. Dey , B. Dey , J. Ding , Z. Ding , P. Doel , K. Douglass , M. Dowicz , H. Ebina , J. Edelstein , D. J. Eisenstein , W. Elbers , N. Emas , S. Escoffier , P. Fagrelius , X. Fan , K. Fanning , G. Favole , V. A. Fawcett , E. Fernández-García , S. Ferraro , N. Findlay , A. Font-Ribera , J. E. Forero-Romero , D. Forero-Sánchez , C. S. Frenk , B. T. Gänsicke , L. Galbany , J. García-Bellido , C. Garcia-Quintero , L. H. Garrison , E. Gaztañaga , H. Gil-Marín , A. Gloudemans , O. Y. Gnedin , S. Gontcho A Gontcho , D. Gonzalez , A. X. Gonzalez-Morales , V. Gonzalez-Perez , C. Gordon , O. Graur , D. Green , D. Gruen , R. Gsponer , C. Guandalin , G. Gutierrez , J. Guy , C. Hahn , J. J. Han , J. Han , S. He , H. K. Herrera-Alcantar , S. Heydenreich , K. Honscheid , J. Hou , C. Howlett , D. Huterer , V. Iršič , M. Ishak , A. Jacques , L. Jiang , J. Jimenez , Y. P. Jing , B. Joachimi , S. Joudaki , R. Joyce , E. Jullo , S. Juneau , N. G. Karaçaylı , T. Karim , R. Kehoe , S. Kent , A. Khederlarian , D. Kirkby , T. Kisner , F. -S. Kitaura , N. Kizhuprakkat , H. Kong , S. E. Koposov , A. Kremin , A. Krolewski , O. Lahav , Y. Lai , C. Lamman , T. -W. Lan , M. Landriau , D. Lang , J. U. Lange , J. Lasker , J. M. Le Goff , L. Le Guillou , A. Leauthaud , M. E. Levi , S. Li , T. S. Li , W. Liu , K. Lodha , M. Lokken , Y. Luo , Y. Luo , C. Magneville , M. Manera , C. J. Manser , D. Margala , P. Martini , M. Maus , J. McCullough , P. McDonald , G. E. Medina , L. Medina-Varela , A. Meisner , J. Mena-Fernández , A. Menegas , J. Meneses-Rizo , M. Mezcua , R. Miquel , P. Montero-Camacho , J. Moon , J. Moustakas , A. Muñoz-Gutiérrez , D. Muñoz-Santos , A. D. Myers , J. Myles , S. Nadathur , J. Najita , L. Napolitano , J. A. Newman , F. Nikakhtar , R. Nikutta , G. Niz , H. E. Noriega , P. Nugent , N. Padmanabhan , E. Paillas , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , A. Palmese , J. Pan , Z. Pan , D. Parkinson , J. A. Peacock , M. P. Ibanez , W. J. Percival , A. Pérez-Fernández , I. Pérez-Ràfols , P. Peterson , J. Piat , M. M. Pieri , M. Pinon , C. Poppett , A. Porredon , F. Prada , R. Pucha , F. Qin , D. Rabinowitz , A. Raichoor , C. Ramírez-Pérez , S. Ramirez-Solano , M. Rashkovetskyi , C. Ravoux , B. Ried Guachalla , A. H. Riley , A. Rocher , C. Rockosi , J. Rohlf , A. J. Rosado-Marín , A. J. Ross , C. Ross , G. Rossi , R. Ruggeri , V. Ruhlmann-Kleider , C. G. Sabiu , K. Said , N. Sailer , A. Saintonge , Y. Salcedo Hernandez , L. Samushia , E. Sanchez , N. Sanders , N. Sandford , S. Satyavolu , C. Saulder , A. K. Saydjari , E. F. Schlafly , D. Schlegel , D. Scholte , M. Schubnell , A. Semenaite , H. Seo , A. Shafieloo , R. Sharples , J. Silber , F. Sinigaglia , M. Siudek , Z. Slepian , A. Smith , M. Soumagnac , D. Sprayberry , J. Suárez-Pérez , J. Swanson , T. Tan , G. Tarlé , P. Taylor , G. Thomas , R. Tojeiro , R. J. Turner , W. Turner , L. A. Ureña-López , R. Vaisakh , M. Valluri , G. Valogiannis , M. Vargas-Magaña , L. Verde , P. Vielzeuf , M. Walther , B. Wang , M. S. Wang , W. Wang , B. A. Weaver , N. Weaverdyck , R. H. Wechsler , D. H. Weinberg , M. White , A. Whitford , M. Wolfson , J. Yang , C. Yèche , S. Youles , J. Yu , S. Yuan , E. A. Zaborowski , P. Zarrouk , H. Zhang , C. Zhao , R. Zhao , Z. Zheng , C. Zhou , R. Zhou , Y. Zhou , H. Zou , S. Zou , Y. Zu
The Dark Energy Camera is a new imager with a 2.2-degree diameter field of view mounted at the prime focus of the Victor M. Blanco 4-meter telescope on Cerro Tololo near La Serena, Chile. The camera was designed and constructed by the Dark…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2015-10-28
B. Flaugher , H. T. Diehl , K. Honscheid , T. M. C. Abbott , O. Alvarez , R. Angstadt , J. T. Annis , M. Antonik , O. Ballester , L. Beaufore , G. M. Bernstein , R. A. Bernstein , B. Bigelow , M. Bonati , D. Boprie , D. Brooks , E. J. Buckley-Geer , J. Campa , L. Cardiel-Sas , F. J. Castander , J. Castilla , H. Cease , J. M. Cela-Ruiz , S. Chappa , E. Chi , C. Cooper , L. N. da Costa , E. Dede , G. Derylo , D. L. DePoy , J. de Vicente , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , J. Eiting , A. E. Elliott , J. Emes , J. Estrada , A. Fausti Neto , D. A. Finley , R. Flores , J. Frieman , D. Gerdes , M. D. Gladders , B. Gregory , G. R. Gutierrez , J. Hao , S. E. Holland , S. Holm , D. Huffman , C. Jackson , D. J. James , M. Jonas , A. Karcher , I. Karliner , S. Kent , R. Kessler , M. Kozlovsky , R. G. Kron , D. Kubik , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , K. Kuk , O. Lahav , A. Lathrop , J. Lee , M. E. Levi , P. Lewis , T. S. Li , I. Mandrichenko , J. L. Marshall , G. Martinez , K. W. Merritt , R. Miquel , F. Munoz , E. H. Neilsen , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , R. Ogando , J. Olsen , N. Palio , K. Patton , J. Peoples , A. A. Plazas , J. Rauch , K. Reil , J. -P. Rheault , N. A. Roe , H. Rogers , A. Roodman , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , R. H. Schindler , R. Schmidt , R. Schmitt , M. Schubnell , K. Schultz , P. Schurter , L. Scott , S. Serrano , T. M. Shaw , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , A. Stefanik , W. Stuermer , E. Suchyta , A. Sypniewski , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , R. Tighe , C. Tran , D. Tucker , A. R. Walker , G. Wang , M. Watson , C. Weaverdyck , W. Wester , R. Woods , B. Yanny
The recently commissioned 3.6-m Devasthal optical telescope has been used for various tests and science observations using three main instruments, namely, a charge-coupled device camera, a near-infrared camera, and an optical…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2019-08-08
Amitesh Omar , Bheemireddy Krishna Reddy , Tripurari Kumar , Jayshreekar Pant
The High Resolution Camera (HRCam) speckle imager at the 4.1 m Southern Astrophysical Research telescope is a highly productive instrument that has accumulated about 40K observations to date. Its performance (detected flux, level of the…
The commissioning team for the Vera C. Rubin observatory is planning a set of engineering and science verification observations with the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) commissioning camera and then the Rubin Observatory LSST Camera.…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2020-10-30
A. Amon , K. Bechtol , A. J. Connolly , S. W. Digel , A. Drlica-Wagner , E. Gawiser , M. Jarvis , S. W. Jha , A. von der Linden , M. Moniez , G. Narayan , N. Regnault , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , S. J. Schmidt , S. H. Suyu , C. W. Walter
We explore the science prospects of a 14,000 deg$^2$ Kinematic Lensing (KL) survey with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and overlapping imaging surveys. KL infers the cosmic shear signal by jointly forward modeling the…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2024-07-31
Jiachuan Xu , Tim Eifler , Eason Wang , Elisabeth Krause , Spencer Everett , Eric Huff , Pranjal R. S. , Yu-Hsiu Huang