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Clustering properties of $g$-selected galaxies at $z\sim0.8$

Current and future large redshift surveys, as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (SDSS-IV/eBOSS) or the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), will use emission-line galaxies (ELG) to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-28 Ginevra Favole , Johan Comparat , Francisco Prada , Gustavo Yepes , Eric Jullo , Anna Niemiec , Jean-Paul Kneib , Sergio A. Rodríguez-Torres , Anatoly Klypin , Ramin A. Skibba , Cameron K. McBride , Daniel J. Eisenstein , David J. Schlegel , Sebastián E. Nuza , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Timothée Delubac , Christophe Yèche , Donald P. Schneider

Large-Scale Galaxy Correlations from the DESI First Data Release

We quantify galaxy correlations using two distinct three-dimensional samples from the first data release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI): the Bright Galaxy Sample (BGS) and the Luminous Red Galaxy Sample (LRGS).…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 Francesco Sylos Labini , Tibor Antal

SDSS-IV eBOSS emission-line galaxy pilot survey

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV extended Baryonic Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (SDSS-IV/eBOSS) will observe 195,000 emission-line galaxies (ELGs) to measure the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation standard ruler (BAO) at redshift 0.9. To test…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-10 J. Comparat , T. Delubac , S. Jouvel , A. Raichoor , J-P. Kneib , C. Yeche , F. B. Abdalla , C. Le Cras , C. Maraston , D. M. Wilkinson , G. Zhu , E. Jullo , F. Prada , D. Schlegel , Z. Xu , H. Zou , J. Bautista , D. Bizyaev , A. Bolton , J. R. Brownstein , K. S. Dawson , S. Escoffier P. Gaulme , K. Kinemuchi , E. Malanushenko , V. Malanushenko , V. Mariappan , J. A. Newman , D. Oravetz , K. Pan , W. J. Percival , A. Prakash , D. P. Schneider , A. Simmons , T. M. C. Abbott S. Allam , M. Banerji , A. Benoit-Lévy , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , D. Capozzi , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. E. Cunha , L. N. da Costa , S. Desai , P. Doel , T. F. Eifler , J. Estrada , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , J. L. Marshall , R. Miquel , A. A. Plazas , K. Reil , N. Roe , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , D. Thomas , A. R. Walker , Y. Zhang

DESI luminous red galaxy samples for cross-correlations

We present two galaxy samples, selected from DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys (LS) DR9, with approximately 20,000 square degrees of coverage and spectroscopic redshift distributions designed for cross-correlations such as with CMB lensing,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-04 Rongpu Zhou , Simone Ferraro , Martin White , Joseph DeRose , Noah Sailer , Jessica Aguilar , Steven Ahlen , Stephen Bailey , David Brooks , Todd Claybaugh , Kyle Dawson , Axel de la Macorra , Biprateep Dey , Peter Doel , Andreu Font-Ribera , Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Satya Gontcho A Gontcho , Julien Guy , Anthony Kremin , Andrew Lambert , Laurent Le Guillou , Michael Levi , Christophe Magneville , Marc Manera , Aaron Meisner , Ramon Miquel , John Moustakas , Adam D. Myers , Jeffrey A. Newman , Jundan Nie , Will Percival , Mehdi Rezaie , Graziano Rossi , Eusebio Sanchez , David Schlegel , Michael Schubnell , Hee-Jong Seo , Gregory Tarlé , Zhimin Zhou

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

Constraints on the spacetime variation of the fine-structure constant using DESI emission-line galaxies

We present strong constraints on the spacetime variation of the fine-structure constant $\alpha$ using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). In this pilot work, we utilize $\sim110,000$ galaxies with strong and narrow O III…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 Linhua Jiang , Zhiwei Pan , Jessica Nicole Aguilar , Steven Ahlen , Robert Blum , David Brooks , Todd Claybaugh , Axel de la Macorra , Arjun Dey , Peter Doel , Kevin Fanning , Simone Ferraro , Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Enrique Gaztanaga , Satya Gontcho A Gontcho , Gaston Gutierrez , Klaus Honscheid , Stephanie Juneau , Martin Landriau , Laurent Le Guillou , Michael Levi , Marc Manera , Ramon Miquel , John Moustakas , Eva-Maria Mueller , Andrea Munoz-Gutierrez , Adam Myers , Jundan Nie , Gustavo Niz , Claire Poppett , Francisco Prada , Mehdi Rezaie , Graziano Rossi , Eusebio Sanchez , Edward Schlafly , Michael Schubnell , Hee-Jong Seo , David Sprayberry , Gregory Tarle , Benjamin Alan Weaver , Hu Zou

The Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Growth rate of structure measurement from anisotropic clustering analysis in configuration space between redshift 0.6 and 1.1 for the Emission Line Galaxy sample

We present the anisotropic clustering of emission line galaxies (ELGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV) extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) Data Release 16 (DR16). Our sample is composed of 173,736 ELGs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Amélie Tamone , Anand Raichoor , Cheng Zhao , Arnaud de Mattia , Claudio Gorgoni , Etienne Burtin , Vanina Ruhlmann-Kleider , Ashley J. Ross , Shadab Alam , Will J. Percival , Santiago Avila , Michael J. Chapman , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Johan Comparat , Kyle S. Dawson , Sylvain de la Torre , Hélion du Mas des Bourboux , Stephanie Escoffier , Violeta Gonzalez-Perez , Jiamin Hou , Jean-Paul Kneib , Faizan G. Mohammad , Eva-Maria Mueller , Romain Paviot , Graziano Rossi , Donald P. Schneider , Yuting Wang , Gong-Bo Zhao

The DESI Single Fiber Lens Search. I. Four Thousand Spectroscopically Selected Galaxy-Galaxy Gravitational Lens Candidates

We present 4,110 strong gravitational lens candidates, 3,887 of which are new discoveries, selected from a sample of 5,837,154 luminous red galaxies (LRGs) observed with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). Candidates are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-05 Juliana S. M. Karp , David J. Schlegel , Xiaosheng Huang , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Adam S. Bolton , Christopher J. Storfer , J. Aguilar , S. Ahlen , S. Bailey , D. Bianchi , D. Brooks , F. J. Castander , T. Claybaugh , A. Cuceu , A. de la Macorra , J. Della Costa , P. Doel , A. Font-Ribera , J. E. Forero-Romero , E. Gaztañaga , S. Gontcho A Gontcho , G. Gutierrez , K. Honscheid , M. Ishak , J. Jimenez , R. Joyce , S. Juneau , D. Kirkby , A. Kremin , C. Lamman , M. Landriau , L. Le Guillou , M. Manera , P. Martini , A. Meisner , R. Miquel , J. Moustakas , S. Nadathur , W. J. Percival , C. Poppett , F. Prada , I. Pérez-Ràfols , G. Rossi , E. Sanchez , M. Schubnell , D. Sprayberry , G. Tarlé , B. A. Weaver , R. Zhou , the DESI Collaboration

Measuring Stellar Masses of Emission Line Galaxies at 1.2<z<1.9

The accurate measurement of stellar masses over a wide range of galaxy properties is essential for better constraining models of galaxy evolution. Emission line galaxies (ELGs) tend to have better redshift estimates than continuum-selected…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-26 Gautam Nagaraj , Robin Ciardullo , Alex Lawson , William Bowman , Gregory Zeimann , Guang Yang , Caryl Gronwall

Target Selection and Sample Characterization for the DESI LOW-Z Secondary Target Program

We introduce the DESI LOW-Z Secondary Target Survey, which combines the wide-area capabilities of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) with an efficient, low-redshift target selection method. Our selection consists of a set of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-13 Elise Darragh-Ford , John F. Wu , Yao-Yuan Mao , Risa H. Wechsler , Marla Geha , Jaime E. Forero-Romero , ChangHoon Hahn , Nitya Kallivayalil , John Moustakas , Ethan O. Nadler , Marta Nowotka , J. E. G. Peek , Erik J. Tollerud , Benjamin Weiner , J. Aguilar , S. Ahlen , D. Brooks , A. P. Cooper , A. de la Macorra , A. Dey , K. Fanning , A. Font-Ribera , S. Gontcho A Gontcho , K. Honscheid , T. Kisner , Anthony Kremin , M. Landriau , Michael E. Levi , P. Martini , Aaron M. Meisner , R. Miquel , Adam D. Myers , Jundan Nie , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , W. J. Percival , F. Prada , D. Schlegel , M. Schubnell , Gregory Tarlé , M. Vargas-Magaña , Zhimin Zhou , H. Zou

Systematic Effects in Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing with DESI

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey will measure spectroscopic redshifts for millions of galaxies across roughly $14,000 \, \mathrm{deg}^2$ of the sky. Cross-correlating targets in the DESI survey with complementary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-17 J. U. Lange , C. Blake , C. Saulder , N. Jeffrey , J. DeRose , G. Beltz-Mohrmann , N. Emas , C. Garcia-Quintero , B. Hadzhiyska , S. Heydenreich , M. Ishak , S. Joudaki , E. Jullo , A. Krolewski , A. Leauthaud , L. Medina-Varela , A. Porredon , G. Rossi , R. Ruggeri , E. Xhakaj , S. Yuan , J. Aguilar , S. Ahlen , D. Brooks , T. Claybaugh , A. de la Macorra , P. Doel , K. Fanning , S. Ferraro , A. Font-Ribera , J. E. Forero-Romero , E. Gaztañaga , S. Gontcho A Gontcho , S. Juneau , R. Kehoe , T. Kisner , A. Kremin , M. Landriau , M. E. Levi , M. Manera , R. Miquel , J. Moustakas , E. Mueller , A. D. Myers , J. Nie , G. Niz , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , C. Poppett , M. Rezaie , E. Sanchez , M. Schubnell , H. Seo , J. Silber , D. Sprayberry , G. Tarlé , M. Vargas-Magaña , R. H. Wechsler , Z. Zhou , H. Zou

The DESI One-Percent Survey: A concise model for galactic conformity of ELGs

Galactic conformity is the phenomenon in which a galaxy of a certain physical property is correlated with its neighbors of the same property, implying a possible causal relationship. The observed auto correlations of emission line galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-08 Hongyu Gao , Y. P. Jing , Kun Xu , Donghai Zhao , Shanquan Gui , Yun Zheng , Xiaolin Luo , Jessica Nicole Aguilar , Steven Ahlen , David Brooks , Todd Claybaugh , Shaun Cole , Axel de la Macorra , Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Satya Gontcho A Gontcho , Mustapha Ishak , Andrew Lambert , Martin Landriau , Marc Manera , Aaron Meisner , Ramon Miquel , Jundan Nie , Mehdi Rezaie , Graziano Rossi , Eusebio Sanchez , Michael Schubnell , Hee-Jong Seo , Gregory Tarlé , Benjamin Alan Weaver , Zhimin Zhou

The Synthetic Emission Line COSMOS catalog: H$\alpha$ and [OII] galaxy luminosity functions and counts at $0.3<z<2.5$

Star-forming galaxies with strong nebular and collisional emission lines are privileged target galaxies in forthcoming cosmological large galaxy redshift surveys. We use the COSMOS2015 photometric catalog to model galaxy spectral energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-17 Shun Saito , Sylvain de la Torre , Olivier Ilbert , Cédric Dubois , Kiyoto Yabe , Jean Coupon

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Galaxy Sample for BAO Measurement

We define and characterise a sample of 1.3 million galaxies extracted from the first year of Dark Energy Survey data, optimised to measure Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the presence of significant redshift uncertainties. The sample is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-17 M. Crocce , A. J. Ross , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Gaztanaga , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Avila , A. Alarcon , K. C. Chan , N. Banik , J. Carretero , E. Sanchez , W. G. Hartley , C. Sanchez , T. Giannantonio , R. Rosenfeld , A. I. Salvador , M. Garcia-Fernandez , J. Garcia-Bellido , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , J. Annis , K. Bechtol , A. Benoit-Levy , G. M. Bernstein , R. A. Bernstein , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , T. F. Eifler , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. Garcia-Bellido , D. W. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , D. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Jain , D. J. James , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , R. C. Nichol , W. J. Percival , A. A. Plazas , M. Sako , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , D. Scolnic , E. Sheldon , 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 , B. Yanny , Y. Zhang

The satellite population around luminous red galaxies in the 25 square degree DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys Early Data Release

Luminous Red Galaxies, or LRGs, are representative of the most massive galaxies and were originally selected in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey as good tracers of large scale structure. They are dominated by by uniformly old stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-25 Melinda Townsend , Gregory Rudnick

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

Illustrating galaxy-halo connection in the DESI era with IllustrisTNG

We employ the hydrodynamical simulation IllustrisTNG to inform the galaxy-halo connection of the Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) and Emission Line Galaxy (ELG) samples of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey at redshift z ~ 0.8.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Sihan Yuan , Boryana Hadzhiyska , Sownak Bose , Daniel J. Eisenstein

Empirical H-alpha emitter count predictions for dark energy surveys

Future galaxy redshift surveys aim to measure cosmological quantities from the galaxy power spectrum. A prime example is the detection of baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAOs), providing a standard ruler to measure the dark energy equation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 J. E. Geach , A. Cimatti , W. Percival , Y. Wang , L. Guzzo , G. Zamorani , P. Rosati , L. Pozzetti , A. Orsi , C. M. Baugh , C. G. Lacey , B. Garilli , P. Franzetti , J. R. Walsh , M. Kümmel

The Dark Energy Survey Year 3 high redshift sample: Selection, characterization and analysis of galaxy clustering

The fiducial cosmological analyses of imaging galaxy surveys like the Dark Energy Survey (DES) typically probe the Universe at redshifts $z < 1$. This is mainly because of the limited depth of these surveys, and also because such analyses…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-02 C. Sánchez , A. Alarcon , G. M. Bernstein , J. Sanchez , S. Pandey , M. Raveri , J. Prat , N. Weaverdyck , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , C. Chang , E. Baxter , Y. Omori , B. Jain , O. Alves , A. Amon , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , J. Blazek , A. Choi , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , M. Crocce , D. Cross , J. DeRose , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , T. F. Eifler , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , X. Fang , P. Fosalba , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , H. Huang , E. M. Huff , N. Kuropatkin , N. MacCrann , J. McCullough , J. Myles , E. Krause , A. Porredon , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , E. S. Rykoff , L. F. Secco , E. Sheldon , M. A. Troxel , B. Yanny , B. Yin , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , F. Andrade-Oliveira , E. Bertin , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , M. E. S. Pereira , S. Desai , P. Doel , C. Doux , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , G. Gutierrez , K. Herner , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , J. L. Marshall , J. Mena-Fernández , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , M. Smith , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To

Luminous Red Galaxies: Selection and classification by combining optical and infrared photometry

We describe a new method of combining optical and infrared photometry to select Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) at redshifts $z > 0.6$. We explore this technique using a combination of optical photometry from CFHTLS and HST, infrared…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-04-27 Abhishek Prakash , Timothy C. Licquia , Jeffrey A. Newman , Sandhya M. Rao