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We present the one-dimensional Lyman-$\alpha$ forest power spectrum measurement using the first data provided by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). The data sample comprises $26,330$ quasar spectra, at redshift $z > 2.1$,…

We describe the model for the mapping from sky brightness to the digital output of the Dark Energy Camera, and the algorithms adopted by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) for inverting this model to obtain photometric measures of celestial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 G. M. Bernstein , T. M. C. Abbott , S. Desai , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , M. D. Johnson , H. Lin , F. Menanteau , E. Morganson , E. Neilsen , K. Paech , A. R. Walker , W. Wester , B. Yanny

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is a massively parallel spectroscopic survey on the Mayall telescope at Kitt Peak, which has released measurements of baryon acoustic oscillations determined from over 14 million extragalactic…

The forthcoming Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) experiment plans to measure the effects of dark energy on the expansion of the Universe and create a $3$D map of the Universe using galaxies up to $z \sim 1.6$ and QSOs up to $z…

We describe an initiative to build and use the Dark Energy Spectrometer (DESpec), a wide-field spectroscopic survey instrument for the Blanco 4 meter telescope at Cerro Tololo InterAmerican Observatory (CTIO) in Chile. A new system with…

The SPE processing function (PF) of the \Euclid pipeline is dedicated to the automatic analysis of one-dimensional spectra to determine redshifts, line fluxes, and spectral classifications. The first \Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1) delivers…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 Euclid Collaboration , V. Le Brun , M. Bethermin , M. Moresco , D. Vibert , D. Vergani , C. Surace , G. Zamorani , A. Allaoui , T. Bedrine , P. -Y. Chabaud , G. Daste , F. Dufresne , M. Gray , E. Rossetti , Y. Copin , S. Conseil , E. Maiorano , Z. Mao , E. Palazzi , L. Pozzetti , S. Quai , C. Scarlata , M. Talia , H. M. Courtois , L. Guzzo , B. Kubik , A. M. C. Le Brun , J. A. Peacock , D. Scott , D. Bagot , A. Basset , P. Casenove , R. Gimenez , G. Libet , M. Ruffenach , N. Aghanim , B. Altieri , A. Amara , S. Andreon , N. Auricchio , H. Aussel , C. Baccigalupi , M. Baldi , A. Balestra , S. Bardelli , P. Battaglia , A. Biviano , A. Bonchi , D. Bonino , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , J. Brinchmann , A. Caillat , S. Camera , G. Cañas-Herrera , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , J. Carretero , S. Casas , F. J. Castander , G. Castignani , S. Cavuoti , K. C. Chambers , A. Cimatti , C. Colodro-Conde , G. Congedo , C. J. Conselice , L. Conversi , A. Costille , F. Courbin , J. -G. Cuby , A. Da Silva , H. Degaudenzi , S. de la Torre , G. De Lucia , A. M. Di Giorgio , H. Dole , M. Douspis , F. Dubath , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , A. Ealet , S. Escoffier , M. Fabricius , M. Farina , R. Farinelli , F. Faustini , S. Ferriol , S. Fotopoulou , N. Fourmanoit , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , M. Fumana , S. Galeotta , K. George , W. Gillard , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , J. Gracia-Carpio , B. R. Granett , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , S. V. H. Haugan , J. Hoar , H. Hoekstra , W. Holmes , F. Hormuth , A. Hornstrup , P. Hudelot , K. Jahnke , M. Jhabvala , B. Joachimi , E. Keihänen , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , M. Kümmel , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , Q. Le Boulc'h , D. Le Mignant , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , V. Lindholm , I. Lloro , G. Mainetti , D. Maino , O. Mansutti , S. Marcin , O. Marggraf , M. Martinelli , N. Martinet , F. Marulli , R. Massey , S. Maurogordato , E. Medinaceli , S. Mei , M. Melchior , Y. Mellier , M. Meneghetti , E. Merlin , G. Meylan , A. Mora , L. Moscardini , R. Nakajima , C. Neissner , R. C. Nichol , S. -M. Niemi , J. W. Nightingale , C. Padilla , S. Paltani , F. Pasian , K. Pedersen , W. J. Percival , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , L. A. Popa , F. Raison , R. Rebolo , A. Renzi , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , R. Saglia , Z. Sakr , D. Sapone , B. Sartoris , M. Sauvage , J. A. Schewtschenko , M. Schirmer , P. Schneider , T. Schrabback , M. Scodeggio , A. Secroun , G. Seidel , M. Seiffert , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , L. Stanco , J. Steinwagner , P. Tallada-Crespí , A. N. Taylor , H. I. Teplitz , I. Tereno , N. Tessore , S. Toft , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , I. Tutusaus , L. Valenziano , J. Valiviita , T. Vassallo , G. Verdoes Kleijn , A. Veropalumbo , Y. Wang , J. Weller , A. Zacchei , F. M. Zerbi , I. A. Zinchenko , E. Zucca , V. Allevato , M. Ballardini , M. Bolzonella , E. Bozzo , C. Burigana , R. Cabanac , A. Cappi , D. Di Ferdinando , J. A. Escartin Vigo , G. Fabbian , L. Gabarra , W. G. Hartley , J. Martín-Fleitas , S. Matthew , M. Maturi , N. Mauri , R. B. Metcalf , A. Pezzotta , M. Pöntinen , C. Porciani , I. Risso , V. Scottez , M. Sereno , M. Tenti , M. Viel , M. Wiesmann , Y. Akrami , S. Alvi , I. T. Andika , S. Anselmi , M. Archidiacono , F. Atrio-Barandela , S. Avila , M. Bella , P. Bergamini , D. Bertacca , L. Blot , S. Borgani , M. L. Brown , S. Bruton , A. Calabro , B. Camacho Quevedo , F. Caro , C. S. Carvalho , T. Castro , Y. Charles , R. Chary , F. Cogato , A. R. Cooray , O. Cucciati , S. Davini , F. De Paolis , G. Desprez , A. Díaz-Sánchez , J. J. Diaz , S. Di Domizio , J. M. Diego , P. Dimauro , P. -A. Duc , A. Enia , Y. Fang , A. M. N. Ferguson , A. G. Ferrari , A. Finoguenov , A. Fontana , A. Franco , K. Ganga , J. García-Bellido , T. Gasparetto , V. Gautard , E. Gaztanaga , F. Giacomini , F. Gianotti , G. Gozaliasl , A. Gregorio , M. Guidi , C. M. Gutierrez , A. Hall , C. Hernández-Monteagudo , H. Hildebrandt , J. Hjorth , J. J. E. Kajava , Y. Kang , V. Kansal , D. Karagiannis , K. Kiiveri , C. C. Kirkpatrick , S. Kruk , L. Legrand , M. Lembo , F. Lepori , G. F. Lesci , J. Lesgourgues , L. Leuzzi , T. I. Liaudat , S. J. Liu , A. Loureiro , J. Macias-Perez , M. Magliocchetti , E. A. Magnier , C. Mancini , F. Mannucci , R. Maoli , C. J. A. P. Martins , L. Maurin , M. Miluzio , P. Monaco , A. Montoro , C. Moretti , G. Morgante , S. Nadathur , K. Naidoo , A. Navarro-Alsina , S. Nesseris , F. Passalacqua , K. Paterson , L. Patrizii , A. Pisani , D. Potter , M. Radovich , P. -F. Rocci , S. Sacquegna , M. Sahlén , D. B. Sanders , E. Sarpa , A. Schneider , D. Sciotti , E. Sellentin , F. Shankar , L. C. Smith , K. Tanidis , G. Testera , R. Teyssier , S. Tosi , A. Troja , M. Tucci , C. Valieri , A. Venhola , G. Verza , P. Vielzeuf , N. A. Walton , J. R. Weaver , L. Zalesky , J. G. Sorce

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 Dark Energy Survey (DES; operations 2009-2015) will address the nature of dark energy using four independent and complementary techniques: (1) a galaxy cluster survey over 4000 deg2 in collaboration with the South Pole Telescope…

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…

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…

The data on spectroscopic galaxy clustering collected by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will allow the significant detection of subtle features in the galaxy two-point correlation in redshift space, beyond the "standard"…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-19 Camille Bonvin , Francesca Lepori , Sebastian Schulz , Isaac Tutusaus , Julian Adamek , Pablo Fosalba

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 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

As spectroscopic surveys continue to grow in size, the problem of classifying spectra targeted as quasars (QSOs) will need to move beyond its historical reliance on human experts. Instead, automatic classifiers will increasingly become the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-09 James Farr , Andreu Font-Ribera , Andrew Pontzen

We present the stellar value-added catalogue based on the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Early Data Release. The catalogue contains radial velocity and stellar parameter measurements for $\simeq$ 400,000 unique stars observed…

The DEIMOS spectrograph has now been installed on the Keck-II telescope and commissioning is nearly complete. The DEEP2 Redshift Survey, which will take approximately 120 nights at the Keck Observatory over a three year period and has been…

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a next generation optical survey aimed at measuring the expansion history of the universe using four probes: weak gravitational lensing, galaxy cluster counts, baryon acoustic oscillations, and Type Ia…