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1. High-redshift LBG selection from broadband and wide photometric surveys using a Random Forest algorithm

Author

Payerne, C., Doumerg, W. d'Assignies, Yèche, C., Ruhlmann-Kleider, V., Raichoor, A., Lang, D., Aguilar, J. N., Ahlen, S., Bianchi, D., Brooks, D., Claybaugh, T., Cole, S., de la Macorra, A., Dey, B., Doel, P., Font-Ribera, A., Forero-Romero, J. E., Gontcho, S. Gontcho A, Gutierrez, G., Honscheid, K., Juneau, S., Lambert, A., Landriau, M., Guillou, L. Le, Levi, M. E., Magneville, C., Manera, M., Meisner, A., Miquel, R., Moustakas, J., Newman, J. A., Palanque-Delabrouille, N., Percival, W., Prada, F., Pérez-Ràfols, I., Rossi, G., Sanchez, E., Schlegel, D., Schubnell, M., Sprayberry, D., Tarlé, G., Weaver, B. A., and Zou, H.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the possibility of selecting high-redshift Lyman-Break Galaxies (LBG) using current and future broadband wide photometric surveys, such as UNIONS or the Vera C. Rubin LSST, using a Random Forest algorithm. This work is conducted in the context of future large-scale structure spectroscopic surveys like DESI-II, the next phase of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), which will start around 2029. We use deep imaging data from HSC and CLAUDS on the COSMOS and XMM-LSS fields. To predict the selection performance of LBGs with image quality similar to UNIONS, we degrade the $u, g, r, i$ and $z$ bands to UNIONS depth. The Random Forest algorithm is trained with the $u,g,r,i$ and $z$ bands to classify LBGs in the $2.5 < z < 3.5$ range. We find that fixing a target density budget of $1,100$ deg$^{-2}$, the Random Forest approach gives a density of $z>2$ targets of $873$ deg$^{-2}$, and a density of $493$ deg$^{-2}$ of confirmed LBGs after spectroscopic confirmation with DESI. This UNIONS-like selection was tested in a dedicated spectroscopic observation campaign of 1,000 targets with DESI on the COSMOS field, providing a safe spectroscopic sample with a mean redshift of 3. This sample is used to derive forecasts for DESI-II, assuming a sky coverage of 5,000 deg$^2$. We predict uncertainties on Alcock-Paczynski parameters $\alpha_\perp$ and $\alpha_{\parallel}$ to be 0.7$\%$ and 1$\%$ for $2.6

Published
2024

2. ForestFlow: cosmological emulation of Lyman-$\alpha$ forest clustering from linear to nonlinear scales

Author

Chaves-Montero, J., Cabayol-Garcia, L., Lokken, M., Font-Ribera, A., Aguilar, J., Ahlen, S., Bianchi, D., Brooks, D., Claybaugh, T., Cole, S., de la Macorra, A., Ferraro, S., Forero-Romero, J. E., Gaztañaga, E., Gontcho, S. Gontcho A, Gutierrez, G., Honscheid, K., Kehoe, R., Kirkby, D., Kremin, A., Lambert, A., Landriau, M., Manera, M., Martini, P., Miquel, R., Muñoz-Gutiérrez, A., Niz, G., Pérez-Ràfols, I., Rossi, G., Sanchez, E., Schubnell, M., Sprayberry, D., Tarlé, G., and Weaver, B. A.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

On large scales, measurements of the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest offer insights into the expansion history of the Universe, while on small scales, these impose strict constraints on the growth history, the nature of dark matter, and the sum of neutrino masses. This work introduces ForestFlow, a cosmological emulator designed to bridge the gap between large- and small-scale Lyman-$\alpha$ forest analyses. Using conditional normalizing flows, ForestFlow emulates the 2 Lyman-$\alpha$ linear biases ($b_\delta$ and $b_\eta$) and 6 parameters describing small-scale deviations of the 3D flux power spectrum ($P_\mathrm{3D}$) from linear theory. These 8 parameters are modeled as a function of cosmology $\unicode{x2013}$ the small-scale amplitude and slope of the linear power spectrum $\unicode{x2013}$ and the physics of the intergalactic medium. Thus, in combination with a Boltzmann solver, ForestFlow can predict $P_\mathrm{3D}$ on arbitrarily large (linear) scales and the 1D flux power spectrum ($P_\mathrm{1D}$) $\unicode{x2013}$ the primary observable for small-scale analyses $\unicode{x2013}$ without the need for interpolation or extrapolation. Consequently, ForestFlow enables for the first time multiscale analyses. Trained on a suite of 30 fixed-and-paired cosmological hydrodynamical simulations spanning redshifts from $z=2$ to $4.5$, ForestFlow achieves $3$ and $1.5\%$ precision in describing $P_\mathrm{3D}$ and $P_\mathrm{1D}$ from linear scales to $k=5\,\mathrm{Mpc}^{-1}$ and $k_\parallel=4\,\mathrm{Mpc}^{-1}$, respectively. Thanks to its parameterization, the precision of the emulator is also similar for both ionization histories and two extensions to the $\Lambda$CDM model $\unicode{x2013}$ massive neutrinos and curvature $\unicode{x2013}$ not included in the training set. ForestFlow will be crucial for the cosmological analysis of Lyman-$\alpha$ forest measurements from the DESI survey., Comment: 17 pages, 11 figures. Submitted to A&A

Published
2024

3. Validation of the DESI 2024 Lyman Alpha Forest BAL Masking Strategy

Author

Martini, Paul, Cuceu, A., Ennesser, L., Brodzeller, A., Aguilar, J., Ahlen, S., Brooks, D., Claybaugh, T., de Belsunce, R., de la Macorra, A., Dey, Arjun, Doel, P., Forero-Romero, J. E., Gaztañaga, E., Gontcho, S. Gontcho A, Guy, J., Herrera-Alcantar, H. K., Honscheid, K., Karaçaylı, N. G., Kisner, T., Kremin, A., Lambert, A., Guillou, L. Le, Manera, M., Meisner, A., Miquel, R., Montero-Camacho, P., Moustakas, J., Niz, G., Palanque-Delabrouille, N., Percival, W. J., Pérez-Ràfols, I., Poppett, C., Prada, F., Ravoux, C., Rezaie, M., Rossi, G., Sanchez, E., Schlegel, D., Schubnell, M., Seo, H., Sprayberry, D., Tan, T., Tarlé, G., Walther, M., Weaver, B. A., and Zou, H.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Broad absorption line quasars (BALs) exhibit blueshifted absorption relative to a number of their prominent broad emission features. These absorption features can contribute to quasar redshift errors and add absorption to the Lyman-alpha (LyA) forest that is unrelated to large-scale structure. We present a detailed analysis of the impact of BALs on the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) results with the LyA forest from the first year of data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). The baseline strategy for the first year analysis is to mask all pixels associated with all BAL absorption features that fall within the wavelength region used to measure the forest. We explore a range of alternate masking strategies and demonstrate that these changes have minimal impact on the BAO measurements with both DESI data and synthetic data. This includes when we mask the BAL features associated with emission lines outside of the forest region to minimize their contribution to redshift errors. We identify differences in the properties of BALs in the synthetic datasets relative to the observational data, as well as use the synthetic observations to characterize the completeness of the BAL identification algorithm, and demonstrate that incompleteness and differences in the BALs between real and synthetic data also do not impact the BAO results for the LyA forest., Comment: 32 pages, 8 figures, accepted by JCAP

Published
2024

4. DESI 2024 VI: Cosmological Constraints from the Measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations

Author

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

Subjects
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We present cosmological results from the measurement of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in galaxy, quasar and Lyman-$\alpha$ forest tracers from the first year of observations from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), to be released in the DESI Data Release 1. DESI BAO provide robust measurements of the transverse comoving distance and Hubble rate, or their combination, relative to the sound horizon, in seven redshift bins from over 6 million extragalactic objects in the redshift range $0.1-1$ and $w_a<0$. This preference is 2.6$\sigma$ for the DESI+CMB combination, and persists or grows when SN~Ia are added in, giving results discrepant with the $\Lambda$CDM model at the $2.5\sigma$, $3.5\sigma$ or $3.9\sigma$ levels for the addition of Pantheon+, Union3, or DES-SN5YR datasets respectively. For the flat $\Lambda$CDM model with the sum of neutrino mass $\sum m_\nu$ free, combining the DESI and CMB data yields an upper limit $\sum m_\nu < 0.072$ $(0.113)$ eV at 95% confidence for a $\sum m_\nu>0$ $(\sum m_\nu>0.059)$ eV prior. These neutrino-mass constraints are substantially relaxed in models beyond $\Lambda$CDM. [Abridged.], Comment: This DESI Collaboration Key Publication is part of the 2024 publication series using the first year of observations (see https://data.desi.lbl.gov/doc/papers). 68 pages, 15 figures. Version accepted for publication in JCAP

Published
2024

5. DESI 2024 IV: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from the Lyman Alpha Forest

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

Subjects
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We present the measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) from the Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) forest of high-redshift quasars with the first-year dataset of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). Our analysis uses over $420\,000$ Ly$\alpha$ forest spectra and their correlation with the spatial distribution of more than $700\,000$ quasars. An essential facet of this work is the development of a new analysis methodology on a blinded dataset. We conducted rigorous tests using synthetic data to ensure the reliability of our methodology and findings before unblinding. Additionally, we conducted multiple data splits to assess the consistency of the results and scrutinized various analysis approaches to confirm their robustness. For a given value of the sound horizon ($r_d$), we measure the expansion at $z_{\rm eff}=2.33$ with 2\% precision, $H(z_{\rm eff}) = (239.2 \pm 4.8) (147.09~{\rm Mpc} /r_d)$ km/s/Mpc. Similarly, we present a 2.4\% measurement of the transverse comoving distance to the same redshift, $D_M(z_{\rm eff}) = (5.84 \pm 0.14) (r_d/147.09~{\rm Mpc})$ Gpc. Together with other DESI BAO measurements at lower redshifts, these results are used in a companion paper to constrain cosmological parameters., Comment: This DESI Collaboration Key Publication is part of the 2024 publication series using the first year of observations (see https://data.desi.lbl.gov/doc/papers). Minor changes in v4, version accepted for publication in JCAP

Published
2024

6. Characterization of contaminants in the Lyman-alpha forest auto-correlation with DESI

Author

Guy, J., Gontcho, S. Gontcho A, Armengaud, E., Brodzeller, A., Cuceu, A., Font-Ribera, A., Herrera-Alcantar, H. K., Karaçaylı, N. G., Muñoz-Gutiérrez, A., Pieri, M., Pérez-Ràfols, I., Ramírez-Pérez, C., Ravoux, C., Rich, J., Walther, M., Karim, M. Abdul, Aguilar, J., Ahlen, S., Bault, A., Brooks, D., Claybaugh, T., de la Cruz, R., de la Macorra, A., Doel, P., Fanning, K., Forero-Romero, J. E., Gaztañaga, E., Gonzalez-Morales, A. X., Gutierrez, G., Hahn, C., Honscheid, K., Juneau, S., Kehoe, R., Kirkby, D., Kisner, T., Kremin, A., Lambert, A., Landriau, M., Guillou, L. Le, Manera, M., Martini, P., Meisner, A., Miquel, R., Montero-Camacho, P., Moustakas, J., Mueller, E., Myers, A. D., Nie, J., Niz, G., Palanque-Delabrouille, N., Percival, W. J., Poppett, C., Rezaie, M., Rossi, G., Sanchez, E., Schlegel, D., Schubnell, M., Seo, H., Silber, J., Sprayberry, D., Tan, T., Tarlé, G., Vargas-Magaña, M., and Zou, H.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations can be measured with sub-percent precision above redshift two with the Lyman-alpha forest auto-correlation and its cross-correlation with quasar positions. This is one of the key goals of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) which started its main survey in May 2021. We present in this paper a study of the contaminants to the lyman-alpha forest which are mainly caused by correlated signals introduced by the spectroscopic data processing pipeline as well as astrophysical contaminants due to foreground absorption in the intergalactic medium. Notably, an excess signal caused by the sky background subtraction noise is present in the lyman-alpha auto-correlation in the first line-of-sight separation bin. We use synthetic data to isolate this contribution, we also characterize the effect of spectro-photometric calibration noise, and propose a simple model to account for both effects in the analysis of the lyman-alpha forest. We then measure the auto-correlation of the quasar flux transmission fraction of low redshift quasars, where there is no lyman-alpha forest absorption but only its contaminants. We demonstrate that we can interpret the data with a two-component model: data processing noise and triply ionized Silicon and Carbon auto-correlations. This result can be used to improve the modeling of the lyman-alpha auto-correlation function measured with DESI., Comment: 32 pages, 12 figures

Published
2024

7. Validation of the DESI 2024 Ly$\alpha$ forest BAO analysis using synthetic datasets

Author

Cuceu, Andrei, Herrera-Alcantar, Hiram K., Gordon, Calum, Martini, Paul, Guy, Julien, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Gonzalez-Morales, Alma X., Karim, M. Abdul, Aguilar, J., Ahlen, S., Armengaud, E., Bault, A., Brooks, D., Claybaugh, T., de la Macorra, A., Doel, P., Fanning, K., Ferraro, S., Forero-Romero, J. E., Gaztañaga, E., Gontcho, S. Gontcho A, Gutierrez, G., Honscheid, K., Howlett, C., Karaçaylı, N. G., Kirkby, D., Kremin, A., Landriau, M., Goff, J. M. Le, Guillou, L. Le, Levi, M. E., Manera, M., Meisner, A., Miquel, R., Moustakas, J., Muñoz-Gutiérrez, A., Myers, A. D., Niz, G., Palanque-Delabrouille, N., Percival, W. J., Poppett, C., Prada, F., Pérez-Ràfols, I., Ramírez-Pérez, C., Ravoux, C., Rezaie, M., Rossi, G., Sanchez, E., Schlegel, D., Schubnell, M., Seo, H., Sprayberry, D., Tan, T., Tarlé, G., Vargas-Magaña, M., Walther, M., Weaver, B. A., Zhou, R., and Zou, H.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

The first year of data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) contains the largest set of Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) forest spectra ever observed. This data, collected in the DESI Data Release 1 (DR1) sample, has been used to measure the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature at redshift $z=2.33$. In this work, we use a set of 150 synthetic realizations of DESI DR1 to validate the DESI 2024 Ly$\alpha$ forest BAO measurement. The synthetic data sets are based on Gaussian random fields using the log-normal approximation. We produce realistic synthetic DESI spectra that include all major contaminants affecting the Ly$\alpha$ forest. The synthetic data sets span a redshift range $1.8

Published
2024

8. DESI 2024 III: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from Galaxies and Quasars

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

Subjects
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We present the DESI 2024 galaxy and quasar baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) measurements using over 5.7 million unique galaxy and quasar redshifts in the range 0.1

Published
2024

9. Impact of Systematic Redshift Errors on the Cross-correlation of the Lyman-$\alpha$ Forest with Quasars at Small Scales Using DESI Early Data

Author

Bault, Abby, Kirkby, David, Guy, Julien, Brodzeller, Allyson, Aguilar, J., Ahlen, S., Bailey, S., Brooks, D., Cabayol-Garcia, L., Chaves-Montero, J., Claybaugh, T., Cuceu, A., Dawson, K., de la Cruz, R., de la Macorra, A., Dey, A., Doel, P., Filbert, S., Font-Ribera, A., Forero-Romero, J. E., Gaztañaga, E., Gontcho, S. Gontcho A, Gordon, C., Herrera-Alcantar, H. K., Honscheid, K., Iršič, V., Karaçaylı, N. G., Kehoe, R., Kisner, T., Kremin, A., Lambert, A., Landriau, M., Guillou, L. Le, Levi, M. E., Manera, M., Martini, P., Meisner, A., Miquel, R., Montero-Camacho, P., Moustakas, J., Muñoz-Gutiérrez, A., Nie, J., Niz, G., Palanque-Delabrouille, N., Percival, W. J., Poppett, C., Prada, F., Pérez-Ràfols, I., Ramírez-Pérez, C., Ravoux, C., Rezaie, M., Rossi, G., Sanchez, E., Schlafly, E. F., Schlegel, D., Schubnell, M., Silber, J., Tan, T., Tarlé, G., Walther, M., Weaver, B. A., and Zhou, Z.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will measure millions of quasar spectra by the end of its 5 year survey. Quasar redshift errors impact the shape of the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest correlation functions, which can affect cosmological analyses and therefore cosmological interpretations. Using data from the DESI Early Data Release and the first two months of the main survey, we measure the systematic redshift error from an offset in the cross-correlation of the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest with quasars. We find evidence for a redshift dependent bias causing redshifts to be underestimated with increasing redshift, stemming from improper modeling of the Lyman-$\alpha$ optical depth in the templates used for redshift estimation. New templates were derived for the DESI Year 1 quasar sample at $z > 1.6$ and we found the redshift dependent bias, $\Delta r_\parallel$, increased from $-1.94 \pm 0.15$ $h^{-1}$ Mpc to $-0.08 \pm 0.04$ $h^{-1}$ Mpc ($-205 \pm 15~\text{km s}^{-1}$ to $-9.0 \pm 4.0~\text{km s}^{-1}$). These new templates will be used to provide redshifts for the DESI Year 1 quasar sample., Comment: 29 pages, 9 figures, 5 tables

Published
2024

10. Synthetic spectra for Lyman-$\alpha$ forest analysis in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

Author

Herrera-Alcantar, Hiram K., Muñoz-Gutiérrez, Andrea, Tan, Ting, González-Morales, Alma X., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Guy, Julien, Moustakas, John, Kirkby, David, Armengaud, E., Bault, A., Cabayol-Garcia, L., Chaves-Montero, J., Cuceu, A., de la Cruz, R., García, L. Á., Gordon, C., Iršič, V., Karaçaylı, N. G., Goff, J. M. Le, Montero-Camacho, P., Niz, G., Pérez-Ràfols, I., Ramírez-Pérez, C., Ravoux, C., Walther, M., Aguilar, J., Ahlen, S., Brooks, D., Claybaugh, T., Dawson, K., de la Macorra, A., Doel, P., Forero-Romero, J. E., Gaztañaga, E., Gontcho, S. Gontcho A, Honscheid, K., Kehoe, R., Kisner, T., Landriau, M., Levi, Michael E., Manera, M., Martini, P., Meisner, A., Miquel, R., Nie, J., Palanque-Delabrouille, N., Poppett, C., Rezaie, M., Rossi, G., Sanchez, E., Seo, H., Tarlé, G., Weaver, B. A., and Zhou, Z.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Synthetic data sets are used in cosmology to test analysis procedures, to verify that systematic errors are well understood and to demonstrate that measurements are unbiased. In this work we describe the methods used to generate synthetic datasets of Lyman-$\alpha$ quasar spectra aimed for studies with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). In particular, we focus on demonstrating that our simulations reproduces important features of real samples, making them suitable to test the analysis methods to be used in DESI and to place limits on systematic effects on measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO). We present a set of mocks that reproduce the statistical properties of the DESI early data set with good agreement. Additionally, we use full survey synthetic data to forecast the BAO scale constraining power with DESI., Comment: 42 pages, 17 figures, 7 tables

Published
2023

11. Mock data sets for the Eboss and DESI Lyman-$\alpha$ forest surveys

Author

Etourneau, Thomas, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Rich, James, Tan, Ting, Cuceu, Andrei, Ahlen, S., Armengaud, E., Brooks, D., Claybaugh, T., de la Macorra, A., Doel, P., Font-Ribera, A., Forero-Romero, J. E., Gontcho, S. Gontcho A, Gonzalez-Morales, A. X., Herrera-Alcantar, H. K., Honscheid, K., Kisner, T., Landriau, M., Manera, M., Martini, P., Miquel, R., Muñoz-Gutiérrez, A., Nie, J., Pérez-Ràfols, I., Poppett, C., Ravoux, C., Rezaie, M., Rossi, G., Sanchez, E., Schubnell, M., Stermer, J., Tarlé, G., Walther, M., and Zhou, Z.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We present a publicly-available code to generate sets of mock Lyman-$\alpha$ (\lya) forest data that have realistic large-scale correlations including those due to the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAO). The primary purpose of these mocks is to test the analysis procedures of the Extended Baryon Oscillation Survey (eBOSS) and the Dark Energy Spectroscopy Instrument (DESI) surveys. The transmitted flux fraction, $F(\lambda)$, of background quasars due to \lya\ absorption in the intergalactic medium (IGM) is simulated using the Fluctuating Gunn-Petterson Approximation (FGPA) applied to Gaussian random fields produced through the use of fast Fourier transforms (FFT). The output includes the IGM-\lya\ transmitted flux fraction along quasar lines of sight and a catalog of high-column-density systems appropriately placed at high-density regions of the IGM. This output serves as input to additional code that superimposes the IGM tranmission on realistic quasar spectra, adds absorption by high-column-density systems and metals, and simulates instrumental transmission and noise. Redshift space distortions (RSD) of the flux correlations are implemented by including the large-scale velocity-gradient field in the FGPA resulting in a correlation function of $F(\lambda)$ that can be accurately predicted. One hundred realizations have been produced over the 14,000 deg$^2$ DESI survey footprint with 100 quasars per deg$^{2}$. The analysis of these realizations shows that the correlations of $F(\lambda)$ follows the prediction within the accuracy of eBOSS survey. The most time-consuming part of the mock production occurs before application of the FGPA, and the existing pre-FGPA forests can be used to easily produce new mock sets with modified redshift-dependent bias parameters or observational conditions, Comment: accepted by JCAP

Published
2023

12. Broad Absorption Line Quasars in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Early Data Release

Author

Filbert, S., Martini, P., Seebaluck, K., Ennesser, L., Alexander, D. M., Bault, A., Brodzeller, A., Herrera-Alcantar, H. K., Montero-Camacho, P., Pérez-Ràfols, I., Ramírez-Pérez, C., Ravoux, C., Tan, T., Aguilar, J., Ahlen, S., Bailey, S., Brooks, D., Claybaugh, T., Dawson, K., de la Macorra, A., Doel, P., Fanning, K., Font-Ribera, A., Forero-Romero, J. E., Gontcho, S. Gontcho A, Guy, J., Kirkby, D., Kremin, A., Magneville, C., Manera, M., Meisner, A., Miquel, R., Moustakas, J., Nie, J., Percival, W. J., Prada, F., Rezaie, M., Rossi, G., Sanchez, E., Schubnell, M., Seo, H., Tarlé, G., Weaver, B. A., and Zhou, Z.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Broad absorption line (BAL) quasars are characterized by gas clouds that absorb flux at the wavelength of common quasar spectral features, although blueshifted by velocities that can exceed 0.1c. BAL features are interesting as signatures of significant feedback, yet they can also compromise cosmological studies with quasars by distorting the shape of the most prominent quasar emission lines, impacting redshift accuracy and measurements of the matter density distribution traced by the Lyman-alpha forest. We present a catalog of BAL quasars discovered in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey Early Data Release, which were observed as part of DESI Survey Validation, as well as the first two months of the main survey. We describe our method to automatically identify BAL quasars in DESI data, the quantities we measure for each BAL, and investigate the completeness and purity of this method with mock DESI observations. We mask the wavelengths of the BAL features and re-evaluate each BAL quasar redshift, finding new redshifts which are 243 km/s smaller on average for the BAL quasar sample. These new, more accurate redshifts are important to obtain the best measurements of quasar clustering, especially at small scales. Finally, we present some spectra of rarer classes of BALs that illustrate the potential of DESI data to identify such populations for further study.

Published
2023

13. 3D Correlations in the Lyman-$\alpha$ Forest from Early DESI Data

Author

Gordon, Calum, Cuceu, Andrei, Chaves-Montero, Jonás, Font-Ribera, Andreu, González-Morales, Alma Xochitl, Aguilar, J., Ahlen, S., Armengaud, E., Bailey, S., Bault, A., Brodzeller, A., Brooks, D., Claybaugh, T., de la Cruz, R., Dawson, K., Doel, P., Forero-Romero, J. E., Gontcho, S. Gontcho A, Guy, J., Herrera-Alcantar, H. K., Iršič, V., Karaçaylı, N. G., Kirkby, D., Landriau, M., Guillou, L. Le, Levi, M. E., de la Macorra, A., Manera, M., Martini, P., Meisner, A., Miquel, R., Montero-Camacho, P., Muñoz-Gutiérrez, A., Napolitano, L., Nie, J., Niz, G., Palanque-Delabrouille, N., Percival, W. J., Pieri, M., Poppett, C., Prada, F., Pérez-Ràfols, I., Ramírez-Pérez, C., Ravoux, C., Rezaie, M., Ross, A. J., Rossi, G., Sanchez, E., Schlegel, D., Schubnell, M., Seo, H., Sinigaglia, F., Tan, T., Tarlé, G., Walther, M., Weaver, B. A., Yèche, C., Zhou, Z., and Zou, H.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We present the first measurements of Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) forest correlations using early data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). We measure the auto-correlation of Ly$\alpha$ absorption using 88,509 quasars at $z>2$, and its cross-correlation with quasars using a further 147,899 tracer quasars at $z\gtrsim1.77$. Then, we fit these correlations using a 13-parameter model based on linear perturbation theory and find that it provides a good description of the data across a broad range of scales. We detect the BAO peak with a signal-to-noise ratio of $3.8\sigma$, and show that our measurements of the auto- and cross-correlations are fully-consistent with previous measurements by the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS). Even though we only use here a small fraction of the final DESI dataset, our uncertainties are only a factor of 1.7 larger than those from the final eBOSS measurement. We validate the existing analysis methods of Ly$\alpha$ correlations in preparation for making a robust measurement of the BAO scale with the first year of DESI data.

Published
2023

14. Optimal 1D Ly$\alpha$ Forest Power Spectrum Estimation -- III. DESI early data

Author

Karaçaylı, Naim Göksel, Martini, Paul, Guy, Julien, Ravoux, Corentin, Karim, Marie Lynn Abdul, Armengaud, Eric, Walther, Michael, Aguilar, J., Ahlen, S., Bailey, S., Bautista, J., Beltran, S. F., Brooks, D., Cabayol-Garcia, L., Chabanier, S., Chaussidon, E., Chaves-Montero, J., Dawson, K., de la Cruz, R., de la Macorra, A., Doel, P., Font-Ribera, A., Forero-Romero, J. E., Gontcho, S. Gontcho A, Gonzalez-Morales, A. X., Gordon, C., Herrera-Alcantar, H. K, Honscheid, K., Iršič, V., Ishak, M., Kehoe, R., Kisner, T., Kremin, A., Landriau, M., Guillou, L. Le, Levi, M. E., Lukić, Z., Meisner, A., Miquel, R., Moustakas, J., Mueller, E., Muñoz-Gutiérrez, A., Napolitano, L., Nie, J., Niz, G., Palanque-Delabrouille, N., Percival, W. J., Pieri, M., Poppett, C., Prada, F., Pérez-Ràfols, I., Ramírez-Pérez, C., Rossi, G., Sanchez, E., Seo, H., Sinigaglia, F., Tan, T., Tarlé, G., Wang, B., Weaver, B. A., Yèche, C., and Zhou, Z.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

The one-dimensional power spectrum $P_{\mathrm{1D}}$ of the Ly$\alpha$ forest provides important information about cosmological and astrophysical parameters, including constraints on warm dark matter models, the sum of the masses of the three neutrino species, and the thermal state of the intergalactic medium. We present the first measurement of $P_{\mathrm{1D}}$ with the quadratic maximum likelihood estimator (QMLE) from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey early data sample. This early sample of $54~600$ quasars is already comparable in size to the largest previous studies, and we conduct a thorough investigation of numerous instrumental and analysis systematic errors to evaluate their impact on DESI data with QMLE. We demonstrate the excellent performance of the spectroscopic pipeline noise estimation and the impressive accuracy of the spectrograph resolution matrix with two-dimensional image simulations of raw DESI images that we processed with the DESI spectroscopic pipeline. We also study metal line contamination and noise calibration systematics with quasar spectra on the red side of the Ly$\alpha$ emission line. In a companion paper, we present a similar analysis based on the Fast Fourier Transform estimate of the power spectrum. We conclude with a comparison of these two approaches and implications for the upcoming DESI Year 1 analysis., Comment: 23 pages, 20 figures. To be published in MNRAS

Published
2023

15. The Early Data Release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

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DESI Collaboration, Adame, A. G., Aguilar, J., Ahlen, S., Alam, S., Aldering, G., Alexander, D. M., Alfarsy, R., Prieto, C. Allende, Alvarez, M., Alves, O., Anand, A., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Armengaud, E., Asorey, J., Avila, S., Aviles, A., Bailey, S., Balaguera-Antolínez, A., Ballester, O., Baltay, C., Bault, A., Bautista, J., Behera, J., Beltran, S. F., BenZvi, S., Silva, L. Beraldo e, Bermejo-Climent, J. R., Berti, A., Besuner, R., Beutler, F., Bianchi, D., Blake, C., Blum, R., Bolton, A. S., Brieden, S., Brodzeller, A., Brooks, D., Brown, Z., Buckley-Geer, E., Burtin, E., Cabayol-Garcia, L., Cai, Z., Canning, R., Cardiel-Sas, L., Rosell, A. Carnero, Castander, F. J., Cervantes-Cota, J. L., Chabanier, S., Chaussidon, E., Chaves-Montero, J., Chen, S., Chen, X., Chuang, C., Claybaugh, T., Cole, S., Cooper, A. P., Cuceu, A., Davis, T. M., Dawson, K., de Belsunce, R., de la Cruz, R., de la Macorra, A., Della Costa, J., de Mattia, A., Demina, R., Demirbozan, U., DeRose, J., Dey, A., Dey, B., Dhungana, G., Ding, J., Ding, Z., Doel, P., Doshi, R., Douglass, K., Edge, A., Eftekharzadeh, S., Eisenstein, D. J., Elliott, A., Escoffier, S., Fagrelius, P., Fan, X., Fanning, K., Fawcett, V. A., Ferraro, S., Ereza, J., Flaugher, B., Font-Ribera, A., Forero-Sánchez, D., Forero-Romero, J. E., Frenk, C. S., Gänsicke, B. T., García, L. Á., García-Bellido, J., Garcia-Quintero, C., Garrison, L. H., Gil-Marín, H., Golden-Marx, J., Gontcho, S. Gontcho A, Gonzalez-Morales, A. X., Gonzalez-Perez, V., Gordon, C., Graur, O., Green, D., Gruen, D., Guy, J., Hadzhiyska, B., Hahn, C., Han, J. J., Hanif, M. M. S, Herrera-Alcantar, H. K., Honscheid, K., Hou, J., Howlett, C., Huterer, D., Iršič, V., Ishak, M., Jacques, A., Jana, A., Jiang, L., Jimenez, J., Jing, Y. P., Joudaki, S., Jullo, E., Juneau, S., Kizhuprakkat, N., Karaçaylı, N. G., Karim, T., Kehoe, R., Kent, S., Khederlarian, A., Kim, S., Kirkby, D., Kisner, T., Kitaura, F., Kneib, J., Koposov, S. E., Kovács, A., Kremin, A., Krolewski, A., L'Huillier, B., Lahav, O., Lambert, A., Lamman, C., Lan, T. -W., Landriau, M., Lang, D., Lange, J. U., Lasker, J., Leauthaud, A., Guillou, L. Le, Levi, M. E., Li, T. S., Linder, E., Lyons, A., Magneville, C., Manera, M., Manser, C. J., Margala, D., Martini, P., McDonald, P., Medina, G. E., Medina-Varela, L., Meisner, A., Mena-Fernández, J., Meneses-Rizo, J., Mezcua, M., Miquel, R., Montero-Camacho, P., Moon, J., Moore, S., Moustakas, J., Mueller, E., Mundet, J., Muñoz-Gutiérrez, A., Myers, A. D., Nadathur, S., Napolitano, L., Neveux, R., Newman, J. A., Nie, J., Nikutta, R., Niz, G., Norberg, P., Noriega, H. E., Paillas, E., Palanque-Delabrouille, N., Palmese, A., Zhiwei, P., Parkinson, D., Penmetsa, S., Percival, W. J., Pérez-Fernández, A., Pérez-Ràfols, I., Pieri, M., Poppett, C., Porredon, A., Pothier, S., Prada, F., Pucha, R., Raichoor, A., Ramírez-Pérez, C., Ramirez-Solano, S., Rashkovetskyi, M., Ravoux, C., Rocher, A., Rockosi, C., Ross, A. J., Rossi, G., Ruggeri, R., Ruhlmann-Kleider, V., Sabiu, C. G., Said, K., Saintonge, A., Samushia, L., Sanchez, E., Saulder, C., Schaan, E., Schlafly, E. F., Schlegel, D., Scholte, D., Schubnell, M., Seo, H., Shafieloo, A., Sharples, R., Sheu, W., Silber, J., Sinigaglia, F., Siudek, M., Slepian, Z., Smith, A., Soumagnac, M. T., Sprayberry, D., Stephey, L., Suárez-Pérez, J., Sun, Z., Tan, T., Tarlé, G., Tojeiro, R., Ureña-López, L. A., Vaisakh, R., Valcin, D., Valdes, F., Valluri, M., Vargas-Magaña, M., Variu, A., Verde, L., Walther, M., Wang, B., Wang, M. S., Weaver, B. A., Weaverdyck, N., Wechsler, R. H., White, M., Xie, Y., Yang, J., Yèche, C., Yu, J., Yuan, S., Zhang, H., Zhang, Z., Zhao, C., Zheng, Z., Zhou, R., Zhou, Z., Zou, H., Zou, S., and Zu, Y.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

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 paper describes the public release of those spectra, the catalogs of derived properties, and the intermediate data products. In total, the public release includes good-quality spectral information from 466,447 objects targeted as part of the Milky Way Survey, 428,758 as part of the Bright Galaxy Survey, 227,318 as part of the Luminous Red Galaxy sample, 437,664 as part of the Emission Line Galaxy sample, and 76,079 as part of the Quasar sample. In addition, the release includes spectral information from 137,148 objects that expand the scope beyond the primary samples as part of a series of secondary programs. Here, we describe the spectral data, data quality, data products, Large-Scale Structure science catalogs, access to the data, and references that provide relevant background to using these spectra., Comment: 43 pages, 7 figures, 17 tables, accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal

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2023
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16. Validation of the Scientific Program for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

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DESI Collaboration, Adame, A. G., Aguilar, J., Ahlen, S., Alam, S., Aldering, G., Alexander, D. M., Alfarsy, R., Prieto, C. Allende, Alvarez, M., Alves, O., Anand, A., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Armengaud, E., Asorey, J., Avila, S., Aviles, A., Bailey, S., Balaguera-Antolínez, A., Ballester, O., Baltay, C., Bault, A., Bautista, J., Behera, J., Beltran, S. F., BenZvi, S., Silva, L. Beraldo e, Bermejo-Climent, J. R., Berti, A., Besuner, R., Beutler, F., Bianchi, D., Blake, C., Blum, R., Bolton, A. S., Brieden, S., Brodzeller, A., Brooks, D., Brown, Z., Buckley-Geer, E., Burtin, E., Cabayol-Garcia, L., Cai, Z., Canning, R., Cardiel-Sas, L., Rosell, A. Carnero, Castander, F. J., Cervantes-Cota, J. L., Chabanier, S., Chaussidon, E., Chaves-Montero, J., Chen, S., Chuang, C., Claybaugh, T., Cole, S., Cooper, A. P., Cuceu, A., Davis, T. M., Dawson, K., de Belsunce, R., de la Cruz, R., de la Macorra, A., de Mattia, A., Demina, R., Demirbozan, U., DeRose, J., Dey, A., Dey, B., Dhungana, G., Ding, J., Ding, Z., Doel, P., Doshi, R., Douglass, K., Edge, A., Eftekharzadeh, S., Eisenstein, D. J., Elliott, A., Escoffier, S., Fagrelius, P., Fan, X., Fanning, K., Fawcett, V. A., Ferraro, S., Ereza, J., Flaugher, B., Font-Ribera, A., Forero-Sánchez, D., Forero-Romero, J. E., Frenk, C. S., Gänsicke, B. T., García, L. Á., García-Bellido, J., Garcia-Quintero, C., Garrison, L. H., Gil-Marín, H., Golden-Marx, J., Gontcho, S. Gontcho A, Gonzalez-Morales, A. X., Gonzalez-Perez, V., Gordon, C., Graur, O., Green, D., Gruen, D., Guy, J., Hadzhiyska, B., Hahn, C., Han, J. J., Hanif, M. M. S, Herrera-Alcantar, H. K., Honscheid, K., Hou, J., Howlett, C., Huterer, D., Iršič, V., Ishak, M., Jana, A., Jiang, L., Jimenez, J., Jing, Y. P., Joudaki, S., Joyce, R., Jullo, E., Juneau, S., Kizhuprakkat, N., Karaçaylı, N. G., Karim, T., Kehoe, R., Kent, S., Khederlarian, A., Kim, S., Kirkby, D., Kisner, T., Kitaura, F., Kneib, J., Koposov, S. E., Kovács, A., Kremin, A., Krolewski, A., L'Huillier, B., Lahav, O., Lambert, A., Lamman, C., Lan, T. -W., Landriau, M., Lang, D., Lange, J. U., Lasker, J., Guillou, L. Le, Leauthaud, A., Levi, M. E., Li, T. S., Linder, E., Lyons, A., Magneville, C., Manera, M., Manser, C. J., Margala, D., Martini, P., McDonald, P., Medina, G. E., Medina-Varela, L., Meisner, A., Mena-Fernández, J., Meneses-Rizo, J., Mezcua, M., Miquel, R., Montero-Camacho, P., Moon, J., Moore, S., Moustakas, J., Mueller, E., Mundet, J., Muñoz-Gutiérrez, A., Myers, A. D., Nadathur, S., Napolitano, L., Neveux, R., Newman, J. A., Nie, J., Niz, G., Norberg, P., Noriega, H. E., Paillas, E., Palanque-Delabrouille, N., Palmese, A., Zhiwei, P., Parkinson, D., Penmetsa, S., Percival, W. J., Pérez-Fernández, A., Pérez-Ràfols, I., Pieri, M., Poppett, C., Porredon, A., Prada, F., Pucha, R., Raichoor, A., Ramírez-Pérez, C., Ramirez-Solano, S., Rashkovetskyi, M., Ravoux, C., Rocher, A., Rockosi, C., Ross, A. J., Rossi, G., Ruggeri, R., Ruhlmann-Kleider, V., Sabiu, C. G., Said, K., Saintonge, A., Samushia, L., Sanchez, E., Saulder, C., Schaan, E., Schlafly, E. F., Schlegel, D., Scholte, D., Schubnell, M., Seo, H., Shafieloo, A., Sharples, R., Sheu, W., Silber, J., Sinigaglia, F., Siudek, M., Slepian, Z., Smith, A., Sprayberry, D., Stephey, L., Suárez-Pérez, J., Sun, Z., Tan, T., Tarlé, G., Tojeiro, R., Ureña-López, L. A., Vaisakh, R., Valcin, D., Valdes, F., Valluri, M., Vargas-Magaña, M., Variu, A., Verde, L., Walther, M., Wang, B., Wang, M. S., Weaver, B. A., Weaverdyck, N., Wechsler, R. H., White, M., Xie, Y., Yang, J., Yèche, C., Yu, J., Yuan, S., Zhang, H., Zhang, Z., Zhao, C., Zheng, Z., Zhou, R., Zhou, Z., Zou, H., Zou, S., and Zu, Y.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) was designed to conduct a survey covering 14,000 deg$^2$ over five years to constrain the cosmic expansion history through precise measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO). The scientific program for DESI was evaluated during a five month Survey Validation (SV) campaign before beginning full operations. This program produced deep spectra of tens of thousands of objects from each of the stellar (MWS), bright galaxy (BGS), luminous red galaxy (LRG), emission line galaxy (ELG), and quasar target classes. These SV spectra were used to optimize redshift distributions, characterize exposure times, determine calibration procedures, and assess observational overheads for the five-year program. In this paper, we present the final target selection algorithms, redshift distributions, and projected cosmology constraints resulting from those studies. We also present a `One-Percent survey' conducted at the conclusion of Survey Validation covering 140 deg$^2$ using the final target selection algorithms with exposures of a depth typical of the main survey. The Survey Validation indicates that DESI will be able to complete the full 14,000 deg$^2$ program with spectroscopically-confirmed targets from the MWS, BGS, LRG, ELG, and quasar programs with total sample sizes of 7.2, 13.8, 7.46, 15.7, and 2.87 million, respectively. These samples will allow exploration of the Milky Way halo, clustering on all scales, and BAO measurements with a statistical precision of 0.28% over the redshift interval $z<1.1$, 0.39% over the redshift interval $1.1

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2023
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17. The DESI Survey Validation: Results from Visual Inspection of the Quasar Survey Spectra

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Alexander, David M., Davis, Tamara M., Chaussidon, E., Fawcett, V. A., Gonzalez-Morales, Alma X., Lan, Ting-Wen, Yeche, Christophe, Ahlen, S., Aguilar, J. N., Armengaud, E., Bailey, S., Brooks, D., Cai, Z., Canning, R., Carr, A., Chabanier, S., Cousinou, Marie-Claude, Dawson, K., de la Macorra, A., Dey, A., Dey, Biprateep, Dhungana, G., Edge, A. C., Eftekharzadeh, S., Fanning, K., Farr, James, Font-Ribera, A., Garcia-Bellido, J., Garrison, Lehman, Gaztanaga, E., Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A, Gordon, C., Gonzalez, Stefany Guadalupe Medellin, Guy, J., Herrera-Alcantar, Hiram K., Jiang, L., Juneau, S., Karacayli, Naim, Kehoe, R., Kisner, T., Kovacs, A., Landriau, M., Levi, Michael E., Magneville, C., Martini, P., Meisner, Aaron M., Mezcua, M., Miquel, R., Camacho, P. Montero, Moustakas, J., Munoz-Gutierrez, Andrea, Myers, Adam D., Nadathur, S., Napolitano, L., Nie, J. D., Palanque-Delabrouille, N., Pan, Z., Percival, W. J., Perez-Rafols, I., Poppett, C., Prada, F., Ramirez-Perez, Cesar, Ravoux, C., Rosario, D. J., Schubnell, M., Tarle, Gregory, Walther, M., Weiner, B., Youles, S., Zhou, Zhimin, Zou, H., and Zou, Siwei

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Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
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A key component of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey validation (SV) is a detailed visual inspection (VI) of the optical spectroscopic data to quantify key survey metrics. In this paper we present results from VI of the quasar survey using deep coadded SV spectra. We show that the majority (~70%) of the main-survey targets are spectroscopically confirmed as quasars, with ~16% galaxies, ~6% stars, and ~8% low-quality spectra lacking reliable features. A non-negligible fraction of the quasars are misidentified by the standard spectroscopic pipeline but we show that the majority can be recovered using post-pipeline "afterburner" quasar-identification approaches. We combine these "afterburners" with our standard pipeline to create a modified pipeline to improve the overall quasar yield. At the depth of the main DESI survey both pipelines achieve a good-redshift purity (reliable redshifts measured within 3000 km/s) of ~99%; however, the modified pipeline recovers ~94% of the visually inspected quasars, as compared to ~86% from the standard pipeline. We demonstrate that both pipelines achieve an median redshift precision and accuracy of ~100 km/s and ~70 km/s, respectively. We constructed composite spectra to investigate why some quasars are missed by the standard spectroscopic pipeline and find that they are more host-galaxy dominated (i.e., distant analogs of "Seyfert galaxies") and/or dust reddened than the standard-pipeline quasars. We also show example spectra to demonstrate the overall diversity of the DESI quasar sample and provide strong-lensing candidates where two targets contribute to a single spectrum., Comment: Astronomical journal (in press). 26 pages, 15 figures, 9 tables, one of a suite of 8 papers detailing targeting for DESI. Figure data available from Zenodo (see paper for details)

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18. Overview of the Instrumentation for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

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Abareshi, B., Aguilar, J., Ahlen, S., Alam, Shadab, Alexander, David M., Alfarsy, R., Allen, L., Prieto, C. Allende, Alves, O., Ameel, J., Armengaud, E., Asorey, J., Aviles, Alejandro, Bailey, S., Balaguera-Antolínez, A., Ballester, O., Baltay, C., Bault, A., Beltran, S. F., Benavides, B., BenZvi, S., Berti, A., Besuner, R., Beutler, Florian, Bianchi, D., Blake, C., Blanc, P., Blum, R., Bolton, A., Bose, S., Bramall, D., Brieden, S., Brodzeller, A., Brooks, D., Brownewell, C., Buckley-Geer, E., Cahn, R. N., Cai, Z., Canning, R., Rosell, A. Carnero, Carton, P., Casas, R., Castander, F. J., Cervantes-Cota, J. L., Chabanier, S., Chaussidon, E., Chuang, C., Circosta, C., Cole, S., Cooper, A. P., da Costa, L., Cousinou, M. -C., Cuceu, A., Davis, T. M., Dawson, K., de la Cruz-Noriega, R., de la Macorra, A., de Mattia, A., Della Costa, J., Demmer, P., Derwent, M., Dey, A., Dey, B., Dhungana, G., Ding, Z., Dobson, C., Doel, P., Donald-McCann, J., Donaldson, J., Douglass, K., Duan, Y., Dunlop, P., Edelstein, J., Eftekharzadeh, S., Eisenstein, D. J., Enriquez-Vargas, M., Escoffier, S., Evatt, M., Fagrelius, P., Fan, X., Fanning, K., Fawcett, V. A., Ferraro, S., Ereza, J., Flaugher, B., Font-Ribera, A., Forero-Romero, J. E., Frenk, C. S., Fromenteau, S., Gänsicke, B. T., Garcia-Quintero, C., Garrison, L., Gaztañaga, E., Gerardi, F., Gil-Marín, H., Gontcho, S. Gontcho A, Gonzalez-Morales, Alma X., Gonzalez-de-Rivera, G., Gonzalez-Perez, V., Gordon, C., Graur, O., Green, D., Grove, C., Gruen, D., Gutierrez, G., Guy, J., Hahn, C., Harris, S., Herrera, D., Herrera-Alcantar, Hiram K., Honscheid, K., Howlett, C., Huterer, D., Iršič, V., Ishak, M., Jelinsky, P., Jiang, L., Jimenez, J., Jing, Y. P., Joyce, R., Jullo, E., Juneau, S., Karaçaylı, N. G., Karamanis, M., Karcher, A., Karim, T., Kehoe, R., Kent, S., Kirkby, D., Kisner, T., Kitaura, F., Koposov, S. E., Kovács, A., Kremin, A., Krolewski, Alex, L'Huillier, B., Lahav, O., Lambert, A., Lamman, C., Lan, Ting-Wen, Landriau, M., Lane, S., Lang, D., Lange, J. U., Lasker, J., Guillou, L. Le, Leauthaud, A., Van Suu, A. Le, Levi, Michael E., Li, T. S., Magneville, C., Manera, M., Manser, Christopher J., Marshall, B., McCollam, W., McDonald, P., Meisner, Aaron M., Mezcua, J. Mena-Fernández M., Miller, T., Miquel, R., Montero-Camacho, P., Moon, J., Martini, J. Paul, Meneses-Rizo, J., Moustakas, J., Mueller, E., Muñoz-Gutiérrez, Andrea, Myers, Adam D., Nadathur, S., Najita, J., Napolitano, L., Neilsen, E., Newman, Jeffrey A., Nie, J. D., Ning, Y., Niz, G., Norberg, P., Noriega, Hernán E., O'Brien, T., Obuljen, A., Palanque-Delabrouille, N., Palmese, A., Zhiwei, P., Pappalardo, D., Peng, X., Percival, W. J., Perruchot, S., Pogge, R., Poppett, C., Porredon, A., Prada, F., Prochaska, J., Pucha, R., Pérez-Fernández, A., Pérez-Ráfols, I., Rabinowitz, D., Raichoor, A., Ramirez-Solano, S., Ramírez-Pérez, César, Ravoux, C., Reil, K., Rezaie, M., Rocher, A., Rockosi, C., Roe, N. A., Roodman, A., Ross, A. J., Rossi, G., Ruggeri, R., Ruhlmann-Kleider, V., Sabiu, C. G., Safonova, S., Said, K., Saintonge, A., Catonga, Javier Salas, Samushia, L., Sanchez, E., Saulder, C., Schaan, E., Schlafly, E., Schlegel, D., Schmoll, J., Scholte, D., Schubnell, M., Secroun, A., Seo, H., Serrano, S., Sharples, Ray M., Sholl, Michael J., Silber, Joseph Harry, Silva, D. R., Sirk, M., Siudek, M., Smith, A., Sprayberry, D., Staten, R., Stupak, B., Tan, T., Tarlé, Gregory, Tie, Suk Sien, Tojeiro, R., Ureña-López, L. A., Valdes, F., Valenzuela, O., Valluri, M., Vargas-Magaña, M., Verde, L., Walther, M., Wang, B., Wang, M. S., Weaver, B. A., Weaverdyck, C., Wechsler, R., Wilson, Michael J., Yang, J., Yu, Y., Yuan, S., Yèche, Christophe, Zhang, H., Zhang, K., Zhao, Cheng, Zhou, Rongpu, Zhou, Zhimin, Zou, H., Zou, J., Zou, S., and Zu, Y.

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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
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The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has embarked on an ambitious five-year survey to explore the nature of dark energy with spectroscopy of 40 million galaxies and quasars. DESI will determine precise redshifts and employ the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation method to measure distances from the nearby universe to z > 3.5, as well as measure the growth of structure and probe potential modifications to general relativity. In this paper we describe the significant instrumentation we developed for the DESI survey. The new instrumentation includes a wide-field, 3.2-deg diameter prime-focus corrector that focuses the light onto 5020 robotic fiber positioners on the 0.812 m diameter, aspheric focal surface. The positioners and their fibers are divided among ten wedge-shaped petals. Each petal is connected to one of ten spectrographs via a contiguous, high-efficiency, nearly 50 m fiber cable bundle. The ten spectrographs each use a pair of dichroics to split the light into three channels that together record the light from 360 - 980 nm with a resolution of 2000 to 5000. We describe the science requirements, technical requirements on the instrumentation, and management of the project. DESI was installed at the 4-m Mayall telescope at Kitt Peak, and we also describe the facility upgrades to prepare for DESI and the installation and functional verification process. DESI has achieved all of its performance goals, and the DESI survey began in May 2021. Some performance highlights include RMS positioner accuracy better than 0.1", SNR per \sqrt{\AA} > 0.5 for a z > 2 quasar with flux 0.28e-17 erg/s/cm^2/A at 380 nm in 4000s, and median SNR = 7 of the [OII] doublet at 8e-17 erg/s/cm^2 in a 1000s exposure for emission line galaxies at z = 1.4 - 1.6. We conclude with highlights from the on-sky validation and commissioning of the instrument, key successes, and lessons learned. (abridged), Comment: 78 pages, 32 figures, submitted to AJ

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19. The 16th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys : First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra

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Romina Ahumada, Carlos Allende Prieto, Andrés Almeida, Friedrich Anders, Scott F. Anderson, Brett H. Andrews, Borja Anguiano, Riccardo Arcodia, Eric Armengaud, Marie Aubert, Santiago Avila, Vladimir Avila-Reese, Carles Badenes, Christophe Balland, Kat Barger, Jorge K. Barrera-Ballesteros, Sarbani Basu, Julian Bautista, Rachael L. Beaton, Timothy C. Beers, B. Izamar T. Benavides, Chad F. Bender, Mariangela Bernardi, Matthew Bershady, Florian Beutler, Christian Moni Bidin, Jonathan Bird, Dmitry Bizyaev, Guillermo A. Blanc, Michael R. Blanton, Médéric Boquien, Jura Borissova, Jo Bovy, W. N. Brandt, Jonathan Brinkmann, Joel R. Brownstein, Kevin Bundy, Martin Bureau, Adam Burgasser, Etienne Burtin, Mariana Cano-Díaz, Raffaella Capasso, Michele Cappellari, Ricardo Carrera, Solène Chabanier, William Chaplin, Michael Chapman, Brian Cherinka, Cristina Chiappini, Peter Doohyun Choi, S. Drew Chojnowski, Haeun Chung, Nicolas Clerc, Damien Coffey, Julia M. Comerford, Johan Comparat, Luiz da Costa, Marie-Claude Cousinou, Kevin Covey, Jeffrey D. Crane, Katia Cunha, Gabriele da Silva Ilha, Yu Sophia Dai, Sanna B. Damsted, Jeremy Darling, James W. Davidson, Roger Davies, Kyle Dawson, Nikhil De, Axel de la Macorra, Nathan De Lee, Anna Bárbara de Andrade Queiroz, Alice Deconto Machado, Sylvain de la Torre, Flavia Dell’Agli, Hélion du Mas des Bourboux, Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic, Sean Dillon, John Donor, Niv Drory, Chris Duckworth, Tom Dwelly, Garrett Ebelke, Sarah Eftekharzadeh, Arthur Davis Eigenbrot, Yvonne P. Elsworth, Mike Eracleous, Ghazaleh Erfanianfar, Stephanie Escoffier, Xiaohui Fan, Emily Farr, José G. Fernández-Trincado, Diane Feuillet, Alexis Finoguenov, Patricia Fofie, Amelia Fraser-McKelvie, Peter M. Frinchaboy, Sebastien Fromenteau, Hai Fu, Lluís Galbany, Rafael A. Garcia, D. A. 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Optical telescopes, SAMPLE, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi, Infrared astronomy, Observatory, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, REDSHIFT 0.8, redshift surveys, stellar spectral lines, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, media_common, Astronomy databases, Redshift surveys, Physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, stellar properties, CATALOG, astro-ph.CO, astronomy databases, Data release, [PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], infrared astonomy, TELESCOPE, astro-ph.GA, media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, MASS, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Galactic abundances, Stellar properties, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, DISTANCES, Stellar spectral lines, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, optical telescopes, 115 Astronomy, Space science, Galaxy, GALAXY, [PHYS.ASTR.GA]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.GA], STELLAR, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], galactic abundances, MILKY, astro-ph.IM, SDSS-IV MANGA
Abstract

This paper documents the 16th data release (DR16) from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys (SDSS), the fourth and penultimate from the fourth phase (SDSS-IV). This is the first release of data from the Southern Hemisphere survey of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE-2); new data from APOGEE-2 North are also included. DR16 is also notable as the final data release for the main cosmological program of the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS), and all raw and reduced spectra from that project are released here. DR16 also includes all the data from the Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey and new data from the SPectroscopic IDentification of ERosita Survey programs, both of which were co-observed on eBOSS plates. DR16 has no new data from the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey (or the MaNGA Stellar Library "MaStar"). We also preview future SDSS-V operations (due to start in 2020), and summarize plans for the final SDSS-IV data release (DR17)., Funding for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, and the Participating Institutions. SDSS-IV acknowledges support and resources from the Center for High-Performance Computing at the University of Utah. The SDSS website is www.sdss.org.

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2020

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