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1. First measurement of the Mg II forest correlation function in the Epoch of Reionization

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Tie, Suk Sien, Hennawi, Joseph F., Wang, Feige, Onorato, Silvia, Yang, Jinyi, Bañados, Eduardo, Davies, Frederick B., and Oñorbe, Jose

Subjects
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

In the process of producing the roughly three ionizing photons per atom required to reionize the IGM, the same massive stars explode and eject metals into their surroundings. While the overly sensitive Lya transition makes Gunn-Peterson absorption of background quasar light an ineffective probe of reionization at z > 6, strong low-ionization transitions like the MgII doublet will give rise to a detectable "metal-line forest", if metals pollute the neutral IGM. We measure the auto-correlation of the MgII forest transmission using a sample of ten ground based z >= 6.80 quasar spectra probing the redshift range 5.96 < z_MgII < 7.42 (z_MgII,median = 6.47). The correlation function exhibits strong small-scale clustering and a pronounced peak at the doublet velocity (768 km/s) arising from strong absorbers in the CGM of galaxies. After these strong absorbers are identified and masked the signal is consistent with noise. Our measurements are compared to a suite of models generated by combining a large hydrodynamical simulation with a semi-numerical reionization topology, assuming a simple uniform enrichment model. We obtain a 95% credibility upper limit of [Mg/H] < -3.73 at z_MgII,median = 6.47, assuming uninformative priors on [Mg/H] and the IGM neutral fraction x_HI. Splitting the data into low-z (5.96 < z_MgII < 6.47; z_MgII,median = 6.235) and high-z (6.47 < z_MgII < 7.42; z_MgII,median = 6.72) subsamples again yields null-detections and 95% upper limits of [Mg/H] < -3.75 and [Mg/H] < -3.45, respectively. These first measurements set the stage for an approved JWST Cycle 2 program (GO 3526) targeting a similar number of quasars that will be an order of magnitude more sensitive, making the Mgii forest an emerging powerful tool to deliver precision constraints on the reionization and enrichment history of the Universe., Comment: Submitted to MNRAS; 23 pages, 21 figures, 1 table

Published
2023

2. 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.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

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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2022
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3. The Robotic Multi-Object Focal Plane System of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)

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Silber, Joseph Harry, Fagrelius, Parker, Fanning, Kevin, Schubnell, Michael, Aguilar, Jessica Nicole, Ahlen, Steven, Ameel, Jon, Ballester, Otger, Baltay, Charles, Bebek, Chris, Beard, Dominic Benton, Besuner, Robert, Cardiel-Sas, Laia, Casas, Ricard, Castander, Francisco Javier, Claybaugh, Todd, Dobson, Carl, Duan, Yutong, Dunlop, Patrick, Edelstein, Jerry, Emmet, William T., Elliott, Ann, Evatt, Matthew, Gershkovich, Irena, Guy, Julien, Harris, Stu, Heetderks, Henry, Heetderks, Ian, Honscheid, Klaus, Illa, Jose Maria, Jelinsky, Patrick, Jelinsky, Sharon R., Jimenez, Jorge, Karcher, Armin, Kent, Stephen, Kirkby, David, Kneib, Jean-Paul, Lambert, Andrew, Lampton, Mike, Leitner, Daniela, Levi, Michael, McCauley, Jeremy, Meisner, Aaron, Miller, Timothy N., Miquel, Ramon, Mundet, Juliá, Poppett, Claire, Rabinowitz, David, Reil, Kevin, Roman, David, Schlegel, David, Serrano, Santiago, Van Shourt, William, Sprayberry, David, Tarlé, Gregory, Tie, Suk Sien, Weaverdyck, Curtis, Zhang, Kai, Azzaro, Marco, Bailey, Stephen, Becerril, Santiago, Blackwell, Tami, Bouri, Mohamed, Brooks, David, Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth, Castro, Jose Peñate, Derwent, Mark, Dey, Arjun, Dhungana, Govinda, Doel, Peter, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Fahim, Nasib, Garcia-Bellido, Juan, Gaztañaga, Enrique, Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A, Gutierrez, Gaston, Hörler, Philipp, Kehoe, Robert, Kisner, Theodore, Kremin, Anthony, Kronig, Luzius, Landriau, Martin, Guillou, Laurent Le, Martini, Paul, Moustakas, John, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Peng, Xiyan, Percival, Will, Prada, Francisco, Prieto, Carlos Allende, de Rivera, Guillermo Gonzalez, Sanchez, Eusebio, Sanchez, Justo, Sharples, Ray, Soares-Santos, Marcelle, Schlafly, Edward, Weaver, Benjamin Alan, Zhou, Zhimin, Zhu, Yaling, and Zou, Hu

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

A system of 5,020 robotic fiber positioners was installed in 2019 on the Mayall Telescope, at Kitt Peak National Observatory. The robots automatically re-target their optical fibers every 10 - 20 minutes, each to a precision of several microns, with a reconfiguration time less than 2 minutes. Over the next five years, they will enable the newly-constructed Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) to measure the spectra of 35 million galaxies and quasars. DESI will produce the largest 3D map of the universe to date and measure the expansion history of the cosmos. In addition to the 5,020 robotic positioners and optical fibers, DESI's Focal Plane System includes 6 guide cameras, 4 wavefront cameras, 123 fiducial point sources, and a metrology camera mounted at the primary mirror. The system also includes associated structural, thermal, and electrical systems. In all, it contains over 675,000 individual parts. We discuss the design, construction, quality control, and integration of all these components. We include a summary of the key requirements, the review and acceptance process, on-sky validations of requirements, and lessons learned for future multi-object, fiber-fed spectrographs., Comment: 51 pages, 41 figures

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2022
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4. Constraining IGM enrichment and metallicity with the C IV forest correlation function

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Tie, Suk Sien, Hennawi, Joseph F., Kakiichi, Koki, and Bosman, Sarah E. I.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract

The production and distribution of metals in the diffuse intergalactic medium (IGM) have implications for galaxy formation models and the baryon (re)cycling process. The relative abundance of metals in high versus low-ionization states has also been argued to be sensitive to the Universe's reionization history. However, measurements of the background metallicity of the IGM at z~4 are sparse and in poor agreement with one another, and reduced sensitivity in the near-IR renders detecting individual metal absorbers nearly impossible. We present a new clustering-based technique that enables the detection of these weak IGM absorbers by statistically averaging over all spectral pixels, here applied to the C IV forest. We simulate the z=4.5 IGM with different models of inhomogeneous metal distributions and investigate its two-point correlation function (2PCF) using mock skewers of the C IV forest. The 2PCF demonstrates a clear peak at the doublet separation of the C IV line. The peak amplitude scales quadratically with metallicity, while enrichment morphology affects both the shape and amplitude of the 2PCF. The effect of enrichment topology can also be framed in terms of the metal mass- and volume-filling factors, and we show their trends as a function of the enrichment topology. For models consistent with the distribution of metals at z~3, we find that we can constrain [C/H] to within 0.2 dex, log$\,M_{\rm{min}}$ to within 0.4 dex, and $R$ to within 15%. We show that strong absorbers arising from the circumgalactic medium of galaxies can be easily identified and masked, allowing one to recover the underlying IGM signal. The auto-correlation of the metal-line forest presents a new and compelling avenue to simultaneously constrain IGM metallicity and enrichment topology with high precision at z>4, thereby pushing such measurements into the Epoch of Reionization., Comment: 19 pages, 17 figures, 1 appendix. Submitted to MNRAS

Published
2022
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5. The DESI Sky Continuum Monitor System

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Tie, Suk Sien, Kirkby, David, Martini, Paul, Poppett, Claire, Pappalardo, Daniel, Schlegel, David, Shover, Jonathan, Guy, Julien, Fanning, Kevin, Honscheid, Klaus, Lampton, Michael, Jelinsky, Patrick, Besuner, Robert, Zhang, Kai, Brooks, David, Doel, Peter, Duan, Yutong, Gastanaga, Enrique, Kehoe, Robert, Landriau, Martin, Levi, Michael, Prada, Francisco, and Tarle, Gregory

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is an ongoing spectroscopic survey to measure the dark energy equation of state to unprecedented precision. We describe the DESI Sky Continuum Monitor System, which tracks the night sky brightness as part of a system that dynamically adjusts the spectroscopic exposure time to produce more uniform data quality and to maximize observing efficiency. The DESI dynamic exposure time calculator (ETC) will combine sky brightness measurements from the Sky Monitor with data from the guider system to calculate the exposure time to achieve uniform signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in the spectra under various observing conditions. The DESI design includes 20 sky fibers, and these are split between two identical Sky Monitor units to provide redundancy. Each Sky Monitor unit uses an SBIG STXL-6303e CCD camera and supports an eight-position filter wheel. Both units have been completed and delivered to the Mayall Telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory. Commissioning results show that the Sky Monitor delivers the required performance necessary for the ETC., Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures, 1 table

Published
2021
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6. UV Background Fluctuations and Three-Point Correlations in the Large Scale Clustering of the Lyman-alpha Forest

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Tie, Suk Sien, Weinberg, David H., Martini, Paul, Zhu, Wei, Peirani, Sebastien, Suarez, Teresita, and Colombi, Stephane

Subjects
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Using the Ly$\alpha$ mass assignment scheme (LyMAS), we make theoretical predictions for the 3-dimensional 3-point correlation function (3PCF) of the Ly$\alpha$ forest at redshift $z=2.3$. We bootstrap results from the (100 $h^{-1} \mbox{ Mpc}$)$^3$ Horizon hydrodynamic simulation to a (1 $h^{-1}$ Gpc)$^3$ $N$-body simulation, considering both a uniform UV background (UVB) and a fluctuating UVB sourced by quasars with a comoving $n_q \approx 10^{-5}$ $h^3$ Mpc$^{-3}$ placed either in massive halos or randomly. On scales of $10-30$ $h^{-1} \mbox{ Mpc}$, the flux 3PCF displays hierarchical scaling with the square of the 2PCF, but with an unusual value of $Q \equiv \zeta_{123}/(\xi_{12} \xi_{13} + \xi_{12} \xi_{23} + \xi_{13} \xi_{23}) \approx -4.5$ that reflects the low bias of the Ly$\alpha$ forest and the anti-correlation between mass density and transmitted flux. For halo-based quasars and an ionizing photon mean free path of $\lambda = 300$ $h^{-1} \mbox{ Mpc}$ comoving, UVB fluctuations moderately depress the 2PCF and 3PCF, with cancelling effects on $Q$. For $\lambda = 100$ $h^{-1} \mbox{ Mpc}$ or 50 $h^{-1} \mbox{ Mpc}$, UVB fluctuations substantially boost the 2PCF and 3PCF on large scales, shifting the hierarchical ratio to $Q \approx -3$. We scale our simulation results to derive rough estimate of the 3PCF detectability in observational data sets for the redshift range $z=2.1 - 2.6$. At $r = 10$ $h^{-1} \mbox{ Mpc}$ and 20 $h^{-1} \mbox{ Mpc}$, we predict a signal-to-noise (SNR) of $\sim$ 9 and $\sim$ 7, respectively, for both BOSS and eBOSS, and $\sim$ 37 and $\sim$ 25 for DESI. At $r = 40$ $h^{-1} \mbox{ Mpc}$ the predicted SNR is lower by $\sim$ 3$-$5 times. Measuring the flux 3PCF would be a novel test of the conventional paradigm of the Ly$\alpha$ forest and help separate the contributions of UVB fluctuations and density fluctuations to Ly$\alpha$ forest clustering., Comment: Submitted to MNRAS. 19 pages, 17 figures

Published
2019
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7. The DESI sky continuum monitor system

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Tie, Suk Sien, Kirkby, David, Martini, Paul, Poppett, Claire L, Pappalardo, Daniel, Schlegel, David J, Shover, Jon, Guy, Julien, Fanning, Kevin, Honscheid, Klaus, Lampton, Michael, Jelinsky, Patrick N, Besuner, Robert W, Zhang, Kai, Brooks, David, Doel, Peter, Duan, Yutong, Gastanaga, Enrique, Kehoe, Robert, Landriau, Martin, Levi, Michael, Prada, Francisco, and Tarle, Gregory

Subjects
astro-ph.IM
Abstract

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is an ongoing spectroscopic survey to measure the dark energy equation of state to unprecedented precision. We describe the DESI Sky Continuum Monitor System, which tracks the night sky brightness as part of a system that dynamically adjusts the spectroscopic exposure time to produce more uniform data quality and to maximize observing efficiency. The DESI dynamic exposure time calculator (ETC) will combine sky brightness measurements from the Sky Monitor with data from the guider system to calculate the exposure time to achieve uniform signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in the spectra under various observing conditions. The DESI design includes 20 sky fibers, and these are split between two identical Sky Monitor units to provide redundancy. Each Sky Monitor unit uses an SBIG STXL-6303e CCD camera and supports an eight-position filter wheel. Both units have been completed and delivered to the Mayall Telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory. Commissioning results show that the Sky Monitor delivers the required performance necessary for the ETC.

Published
2020

8. The Commissioning Instrument for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

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Ross, Ashley J., Martini, Paul, Coles, Rebecca, Derwent, Mark, Honscheid, Klaus, O'Brien, Thomas P., Pappalardo, Dan, Tie, Suk Sien, Brooks, David, Schubnell, Michael, and Tarle, Greg

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract

We describe the design of the Commissioning Instrument for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). DESI will obtain spectra over a 3 degree field of view using the 4-meter Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak, AZ. In order to achieve the required image quality over this field of view, a new optical corrector is being installed at the Mayall Telescope. The Commissioning Instrument is designed to characterize the image quality of the new optical system. The Commissioning Instrument has five commercial cameras; one at the center of the focal surface and four near the periphery of the field and at the cardinal directions. There are also 22 illuminated fiducials, distributed throughout the focal surface, that will be used to test the system that will map between the DESI fiber positioners and celestial coordinates. We describe how the commissioning instrument will perform commissioning tasks for the DESI project and thereby eliminate risks., Comment: Presented at SPIE June 2018; Proc. SPIE 10702, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII, 1070280

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2018
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9. DESI Commissioning Instrument Metrology

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Coles, Rebecca A., Brooks, David, Derwent, Mark, Martini, Paul, O'Brien, Thomas, Ross, Ashley, and Tie, Suk Sien

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is under construction to measure the expansion history of the Universe using the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation technique. The spectra of 35 million galaxies and quasars over 14000 sq deg will be measured during the life of the experiment. A new prime focus corrector for the KPNO Mayall telescope will deliver light to 5000 fiber optic positioners. The fibers in turn feed ten broad-band spectrographs. We will describe the methods and results for the commissioning instrument metrology program. The primary goals of this program are to calculate the transformations and further develop the systems that will place fibers within 5um RMS of the target positions. We will use the commissioning instrument metrology program to measure the absolute three axis Cartesian coordinates of the five CCDs and 22 illuminated fiducials on the commissioning instrument.

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2018
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10. Overview of the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys

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Dey, Arjun, Schlegel, David J., Lang, Dustin, Blum, Robert, Burleigh, Kaylan, Fan, Xiaohui, Findlay, Joseph R., Finkbeiner, Doug, Herrera, David, Juneau, Stephanie, Landriau, Martin, Levi, Michael, McGreer, Ian, Meisner, Aaron, Myers, Adam D., Moustakas, John, Nugent, Peter, Patej, Anna, Schlafly, Edward F., Walker, Alistair R., Valdes, Francisco, Weaver, Benjamin A., Zou, Christophe Yeche Hu, Zhou, Xu, Abareshi, Behzad, Abbott, T. M. C., Abolfathi, Bela, Aguilera, C., Alam, Shadab, Allen, Lori, Alvarez, A., Annis, James, Ansarinejad, Behzad, Aubert, Marie, Beechert, Jacqueline, Bell, Eric F., BenZvi, Segev Y., Beutler, Florian, Bielby, Richard M., Bolton, Adam S., Buckley-Geer, Cesar Briceno Elizabeth J., Butler, Karen, Calamida, Annalisa, Carlberg, Raymond G., Carter, Paul, Casas, Ricard, Castander, Francisco J., Choi, Yumi, Comparat, Johan, Cukanovaite, Elena, Delubac, Timothee, DeVries, Kaitlin, Dey, Sharmila, Dhungana, Govinda, Dickinson, Mark, Ding, Zhejie, Donaldson, John B., Duan, Yutong, Duckworth, Christopher J., Eftekharzadeh, Sarah, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Etourneau, Thomas, Fagrelius, Parker A., Farihi, Jay, Fitzpatrick, Mike, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Fulmer, Leah, Gansicke, Boris T., Gaztanaga, Enrique, George, Koshy, Gerdes, David W., Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A, Gorgoni, Claudio, Green, Gregory, Guy, Julien, Harmer, Diane, Hernandez, M., Honscheid, Klaus, Lijuan, Huang, James, David, Jannuzi, Buell T., Jiang, Linhua, Joyce, Richard, Karcher, Armin, Karkar, Sonia, Kehoe, Robert, Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kueter-Young, Andrea, Lan, Ting-Wen, Lauer, Tod, Guillou, Laurent Le, Van Suu, Auguste Le, Lee, Jae Hyeon, Lesser, Michael, Levasseur, Laurence Perreault, Li, Ting S., Mann, Justin L., Marshall, Bob, Martinez-Vazquez, C. E., Martini, Paul, Bourboux, Helion du Mas des, McManus, Sean, Meier, Tobias Gabriel, Menard, Brice, Metcalfe, Nigel, Munoz-Gutierrez, Andrea, Najita, Joan, Napier, Kevin, Narayan, Gautham, Newman, Jeffrey A., Nie, Jundan, Nord, Brian, Norman, Dara J., Olsen, Knut A. G., Paat, Anthony, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Peng, Xiyan, Poppett, Claire L., Poremba, Megan R., Prakash, Abhishek, Rabinowitz, David, Raichoor, Anand, Rezaie, Mehdi, Robertson, A. N., Roe, Natalie A., Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rudnick, Gregory, Safonova, Sasha, Saha, Abhijit, Sanchez, F. Javier, Savary, Elodie, Schweiker, Heidi, Scott, Adam, Seo, Hee-Jong, Shan, Huanyuan, Silva, David R., Slepian, Zachary, Soto, Christian, Sprayberry, David, Staten, Ryan, Stillman, Coley M., Stupak, Robert J., Summers, David L., Tie, Suk Sien, Tirado, H., Vargas-Magana, Mariana, Vivas, A. Katherina, Wechsler, Risa H., Williams, Doug, Yang, Jinyi, Yang, Qian, Yapici, Tolga, Zaritsky, Dennis, Zenteno, A., Zhang, Kai, Zhang, Tianmeng, Zhou, Rongpu, and Zhou, Zhimin

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract

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 extragalactic sky visible from the northern hemisphere in three optical bands (g, r, and z) using telescopes at the Kitt Peak National Observatory and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. The combined survey footprint is split into two contiguous areas by the Galactic plane. The optical imaging is conducted using a unique strategy of dynamically adjusting the exposure times and pointing selection during observing that results in a survey of nearly uniform depth. In addition to calibrated images, the project is delivering a catalog, constructed by using a probabilistic inference-based approach to estimate source shapes and brightnesses. The catalog includes photometry from the grz optical bands and from four mid-infrared bands (at 3.4, 4.6, 12 and 22 micorons) observed by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite during its full operational lifetime. The project plans two public data releases each year. All the software used to generate the catalogs is also released with the data. This paper provides an overview of the Legacy Surveys project., Comment: 47 pages, 18 figures; accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal

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2018
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11. The DESI Experiment Part I: Science,Targeting, and Survey Design

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DESI Collaboration, Aghamousa, Amir, Aguilar, Jessica, Ahlen, Steve, Alam, Shadab, Allen, Lori E., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Annis, James, Bailey, Stephen, Balland, Christophe, Ballester, Otger, Baltay, Charles, Beaufore, Lucas, Bebek, Chris, Beers, Timothy C., Bell, Eric F., Bernal, José Luis, Besuner, Robert, Beutler, Florian, Blake, Chris, Bleuler, Hannes, Blomqvist, Michael, Blum, Robert, Bolton, Adam S., Briceno, Cesar, Brooks, David, Brownstein, Joel R., Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth, Burden, Angela, Burtin, Etienne, Busca, Nicolas G., Cahn, Robert N., Cai, Yan-Chuan, Cardiel-Sas, Laia, Carlberg, Raymond G., Carton, Pierre-Henri, Casas, Ricard, Castander, Francisco J., Cervantes-Cota, Jorge L., Claybaugh, Todd M., Close, Madeline, Coker, Carl T., Cole, Shaun, Comparat, Johan, Cooper, Andrew P., Cousinou, M. -C., Crocce, Martin, Cuby, Jean-Gabriel, Cunningham, Daniel P., Davis, Tamara M., Dawson, Kyle S., de la Macorra, Axel, De Vicente, Juan, Delubac, Timothée, Derwent, Mark, Dey, Arjun, Dhungana, Govinda, Ding, Zhejie, Doel, Peter, Duan, Yutong T., Ealet, Anne, Edelstein, Jerry, Eftekharzadeh, Sarah, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Elliott, Ann, Escoffier, Stéphanie, Evatt, Matthew, Fagrelius, Parker, Fan, Xiaohui, Fanning, Kevin, Farahi, Arya, Farihi, Jay, Favole, Ginevra, Feng, Yu, Fernandez, Enrique, Findlay, Joseph R., Finkbeiner, Douglas P., Fitzpatrick, Michael J., Flaugher, Brenna, Flender, Samuel, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Forero-Romero, Jaime E., Fosalba, Pablo, Frenk, Carlos S., Fumagalli, Michele, Gaensicke, Boris T., Gallo, Giuseppe, Garcia-Bellido, Juan, Gaztanaga, Enrique, Fusillo, Nicola Pietro Gentile, Gerard, Terry, Gershkovich, Irena, Giannantonio, Tommaso, Gillet, Denis, Gonzalez-de-Rivera, Guillermo, Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta, Gott, Shelby, Graur, Or, Gutierrez, Gaston, Guy, Julien, Habib, Salman, Heetderks, Henry, Heetderks, Ian, Heitmann, Katrin, Hellwing, Wojciech A., Herrera, David A., Ho, Shirley, Holland, Stephen, Honscheid, Klaus, Huff, Eric, Hutchinson, Timothy A., Huterer, Dragan, Hwang, Ho Seong, Laguna, Joseph Maria Illa, Ishikawa, Yuzo, Jacobs, Dianna, Jeffrey, Niall, Jelinsky, Patrick, Jennings, Elise, Jiang, Linhua, Jimenez, Jorge, Johnson, Jennifer, Joyce, Richard, Jullo, Eric, Juneau, Stéphanie, Kama, Sami, Karcher, Armin, Karkar, Sonia, Kehoe, Robert, Kennamer, Noble, Kent, Stephen, Kilbinger, Martin, Kim, Alex G., Kirkby, David, Kisner, Theodore, Kitanidis, Ellie, Kneib, Jean-Paul, Koposov, Sergey, Kovacs, Eve, Koyama, Kazuya, Kremin, Anthony, Kron, Richard, Kronig, Luzius, Kueter-Young, Andrea, Lacey, Cedric G., Lafever, Robin, Lahav, Ofer, Lambert, Andrew, Lampton, Michael, Landriau, Martin, Lang, Dustin, Lauer, Tod R., Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Guillou, Laurent Le, Van Suu, Auguste Le, Lee, Jae Hyeon, Lee, Su-Jeong, Leitner, Daniela, Lesser, Michael, Levi, Michael E., L'Huillier, Benjamin, Li, Baojiu, Liang, Ming, Lin, Huan, Linder, Eric, Loebman, Sarah R., Lukić, Zarija, Ma, Jun, MacCrann, Niall, Magneville, Christophe, Makarem, Laleh, Manera, Marc, Manser, Christopher J., Marshall, Robert, Martini, Paul, Massey, Richard, Matheson, Thomas, McCauley, Jeremy, McDonald, Patrick, McGreer, Ian D., Meisner, Aaron, Metcalfe, Nigel, Miller, Timothy N., Miquel, Ramon, Moustakas, John, Myers, Adam, Naik, Milind, Newman, Jeffrey A., Nichol, Robert C., Nicola, Andrina, da Costa, Luiz Nicolati, Nie, Jundan, Niz, Gustavo, Norberg, Peder, Nord, Brian, Norman, Dara, Nugent, Peter, O'Brien, Thomas, Oh, Minji, Olsen, Knut A. G., Padilla, Cristobal, Padmanabhan, Hamsa, Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Palmese, Antonella, Pappalardo, Daniel, Pâris, Isabelle, Park, Changbom, Patej, Anna, Peacock, John A., Peiris, Hiranya V., Peng, Xiyan, Percival, Will J., Perruchot, Sandrine, Pieri, Matthew M., Pogge, Richard, Pollack, Jennifer E., Poppett, Claire, Prada, Francisco, Prakash, Abhishek, Probst, Ronald G., Rabinowitz, David, Raichoor, Anand, Ree, Chang Hee, Refregier, Alexandre, Regal, Xavier, Reid, Beth, Reil, Kevin, Rezaie, Mehdi, Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie, Ronayette, Samuel, Roodman, Aaron, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossi, Graziano, Rozo, Eduardo, Ruhlmann-Kleider, Vanina, Rykoff, Eli S., Sabiu, Cristiano, Samushia, Lado, Sanchez, Eusebio, Sanchez, Javier, Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Michael, Schubnell, Michael, Secroun, Aurélia, Seljak, Uros, Seo, Hee-Jong, Serrano, Santiago, Shafieloo, Arman, Shan, Huanyuan, Sharples, Ray, Sholl, Michael J., Shourt, William V., Silber, Joseph H., Silva, David R., Sirk, Martin M., Slosar, Anze, Smith, Alex, Smoot, George F., Som, Debopam, Song, Yong-Seon, Sprayberry, David, Staten, Ryan, Stefanik, Andy, Tarle, Gregory, Tie, Suk Sien, Tinker, Jeremy L., Tojeiro, Rita, Valdes, Francisco, Valenzuela, Octavio, Valluri, Monica, Vargas-Magana, Mariana, Verde, Licia, Walker, Alistair R., Wang, Jiali, Wang, Yuting, Weaver, Benjamin A., Weaverdyck, Curtis, Wechsler, Risa H., Weinberg, David H., White, Martin, Yang, Qian, Yeche, Christophe, Zhang, Tianmeng, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Yi, Zhou, Xu, Zhou, Zhimin, Zhu, Yaling, Zou, Hu, and Zu, Ying

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) is a Stage IV ground-based dark energy experiment that will study baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) and the growth of structure through redshift-space distortions with a wide-area galaxy and quasar redshift survey. To trace the underlying dark matter distribution, spectroscopic targets will be selected in four classes from imaging data. We will measure luminous red galaxies up to $z=1.0$. To probe the Universe out to even higher redshift, DESI will target bright [O II] emission line galaxies up to $z=1.7$. Quasars will be targeted both as direct tracers of the underlying dark matter distribution and, at higher redshifts ($ 2.1 < z < 3.5$), for the Ly-$\alpha$ forest absorption features in their spectra, which will be used to trace the distribution of neutral hydrogen. When moonlight prevents efficient observations of the faint targets of the baseline survey, DESI will conduct a magnitude-limited Bright Galaxy Survey comprising approximately 10 million galaxies with a median $z\approx 0.2$. In total, more than 30 million galaxy and quasar redshifts will be obtained to measure the BAO feature and determine the matter power spectrum, including redshift space distortions.

Published
2016

12. The DESI Experiment Part II: Instrument Design

Author

DESI Collaboration, Aghamousa, Amir, Aguilar, Jessica, Ahlen, Steve, Alam, Shadab, Allen, Lori E., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Annis, James, Bailey, Stephen, Balland, Christophe, Ballester, Otger, Baltay, Charles, Beaufore, Lucas, Bebek, Chris, Beers, Timothy C., Bell, Eric F., Bernal, José Luis, Besuner, Robert, Beutler, Florian, Blake, Chris, Bleuler, Hannes, Blomqvist, Michael, Blum, Robert, Bolton, Adam S., Briceno, Cesar, Brooks, David, Brownstein, Joel R., Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth, Burden, Angela, Burtin, Etienne, Busca, Nicolas G., Cahn, Robert N., Cai, Yan-Chuan, Cardiel-Sas, Laia, Carlberg, Raymond G., Carton, Pierre-Henri, Casas, Ricard, Castander, Francisco J., Cervantes-Cota, Jorge L., Claybaugh, Todd M., Close, Madeline, Coker, Carl T., Cole, Shaun, Comparat, Johan, Cooper, Andrew P., Cousinou, M. -C., Crocce, Martin, Cuby, Jean-Gabriel, Cunningham, Daniel P., Davis, Tamara M., Dawson, Kyle S., de la Macorra, Axel, De Vicente, Juan, Delubac, Timothée, Derwent, Mark, Dey, Arjun, Dhungana, Govinda, Ding, Zhejie, Doel, Peter, Duan, Yutong T., Ealet, Anne, Edelstein, Jerry, Eftekharzadeh, Sarah, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Elliott, Ann, Escoffier, Stéphanie, Evatt, Matthew, Fagrelius, Parker, Fan, Xiaohui, Fanning, Kevin, Farahi, Arya, Farihi, Jay, Favole, Ginevra, Feng, Yu, Fernandez, Enrique, Findlay, Joseph R., Finkbeiner, Douglas P., Fitzpatrick, Michael J., Flaugher, Brenna, Flender, Samuel, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Forero-Romero, Jaime E., Fosalba, Pablo, Frenk, Carlos S., Fumagalli, Michele, Gaensicke, Boris T., Gallo, Giuseppe, Garcia-Bellido, Juan, Gaztanaga, Enrique, Fusillo, Nicola Pietro Gentile, Gerard, Terry, Gershkovich, Irena, Giannantonio, Tommaso, Gillet, Denis, Gonzalez-de-Rivera, Guillermo, Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta, Gott, Shelby, Graur, Or, Gutierrez, Gaston, Guy, Julien, Habib, Salman, Heetderks, Henry, Heetderks, Ian, Heitmann, Katrin, Hellwing, Wojciech A., Herrera, David A., Ho, Shirley, Holland, Stephen, Honscheid, Klaus, Huff, Eric, Hutchinson, Timothy A., Huterer, Dragan, Hwang, Ho Seong, Laguna, Joseph Maria Illa, Ishikawa, Yuzo, Jacobs, Dianna, Jeffrey, Niall, Jelinsky, Patrick, Jennings, Elise, Jiang, Linhua, Jimenez, Jorge, Johnson, Jennifer, Joyce, Richard, Jullo, Eric, Juneau, Stéphanie, Kama, Sami, Karcher, Armin, Karkar, Sonia, Kehoe, Robert, Kennamer, Noble, Kent, Stephen, Kilbinger, Martin, Kim, Alex G., Kirkby, David, Kisner, Theodore, Kitanidis, Ellie, Kneib, Jean-Paul, Koposov, Sergey, Kovacs, Eve, Koyama, Kazuya, Kremin, Anthony, Kron, Richard, Kronig, Luzius, Kueter-Young, Andrea, Lacey, Cedric G., Lafever, Robin, Lahav, Ofer, Lambert, Andrew, Lampton, Michael, Landriau, Martin, Lang, Dustin, Lauer, Tod R., Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Guillou, Laurent Le, Van Suu, Auguste Le, Lee, Jae Hyeon, Lee, Su-Jeong, Leitner, Daniela, Lesser, Michael, Levi, Michael E., L'Huillier, Benjamin, Li, Baojiu, Liang, Ming, Lin, Huan, Linder, Eric, Loebman, Sarah R., Lukić, Zarija, Ma, Jun, MacCrann, Niall, Magneville, Christophe, Makarem, Laleh, Manera, Marc, Manser, Christopher J., Marshall, Robert, Martini, Paul, Massey, Richard, Matheson, Thomas, McCauley, Jeremy, McDonald, Patrick, McGreer, Ian D., Meisner, Aaron, Metcalfe, Nigel, Miller, Timothy N., Miquel, Ramon, Moustakas, John, Myers, Adam, Naik, Milind, Newman, Jeffrey A., Nichol, Robert C., Nicola, Andrina, da Costa, Luiz Nicolati, Nie, Jundan, Niz, Gustavo, Norberg, Peder, Nord, Brian, Norman, Dara, Nugent, Peter, O'Brien, Thomas, Oh, Minji, Olsen, Knut A. G., Padilla, Cristobal, Padmanabhan, Hamsa, Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Palmese, Antonella, Pappalardo, Daniel, Pâris, Isabelle, Park, Changbom, Patej, Anna, Peacock, John A., Peiris, Hiranya V., Peng, Xiyan, Percival, Will J., Perruchot, Sandrine, Pieri, Matthew M., Pogge, Richard, Pollack, Jennifer E., Poppett, Claire, Prada, Francisco, Prakash, Abhishek, Probst, Ronald G., Rabinowitz, David, Raichoor, Anand, Ree, Chang Hee, Refregier, Alexandre, Regal, Xavier, Reid, Beth, Reil, Kevin, Rezaie, Mehdi, Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie, Ronayette, Samuel, Roodman, Aaron, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossi, Graziano, Rozo, Eduardo, Ruhlmann-Kleider, Vanina, Rykoff, Eli S., Sabiu, Cristiano, Samushia, Lado, Sanchez, Eusebio, Sanchez, Javier, Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Michael, Schubnell, Michael, Secroun, Aurélia, Seljak, Uros, Seo, Hee-Jong, Serrano, Santiago, Shafieloo, Arman, Shan, Huanyuan, Sharples, Ray, Sholl, Michael J., Shourt, William V., Silber, Joseph H., Silva, David R., Sirk, Martin M., Slosar, Anze, Smith, Alex, Smoot, George F., Som, Debopam, Song, Yong-Seon, Sprayberry, David, Staten, Ryan, Stefanik, Andy, Tarle, Gregory, Tie, Suk Sien, Tinker, Jeremy L., Tojeiro, Rita, Valdes, Francisco, Valenzuela, Octavio, Valluri, Monica, Vargas-Magana, Mariana, Verde, Licia, Walker, Alistair R., Wang, Jiali, Wang, Yuting, Weaver, Benjamin A., Weaverdyck, Curtis, Wechsler, Risa H., Weinberg, David H., White, Martin, Yang, Qian, Yeche, Christophe, Zhang, Tianmeng, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Yi, Zhou, Xu, Zhou, Zhimin, Zhu, Yaling, Zou, Hu, and Zu, Ying

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

DESI (Dark Energy Spectropic Instrument) is a Stage IV ground-based dark energy experiment that will study baryon acoustic oscillations and the growth of structure through redshift-space distortions with a wide-area galaxy and quasar redshift survey. The DESI instrument is a robotically-actuated, fiber-fed spectrograph capable of taking up to 5,000 simultaneous spectra over a wavelength range from 360 nm to 980 nm. The fibers feed ten three-arm spectrographs with resolution $R= \lambda/\Delta\lambda$ between 2000 and 5500, depending on wavelength. The DESI instrument will be used to conduct a five-year survey designed to cover 14,000 deg$^2$. This powerful instrument will be installed at prime focus on the 4-m Mayall telescope in Kitt Peak, Arizona, along with a new optical corrector, which will provide a three-degree diameter field of view. The DESI collaboration will also deliver a spectroscopic pipeline and data management system to reduce and archive all data for eventual public use.

Published
2016

13. Discovery of a z=0.65 Post-Starburst BAL Quasar in the DES Supernova Fields

Author

Mudd, Dale, Martini, Paul, Tie, Suk Sien, Lidman, Chris, McMahon, Richard, Banerji, Manda, Davis, Tamara, Peterson, Bradley, Sharp, Rob, Childress, Michael, Lewis, Geraint, Tucker, Brad, Yuan, Fang, Abbot, Tim, Abdalla, Filipe, Allam, Sahar, Benoit-Levy, Aurelien, Bertin, Emmanuel, Brooks, David, Rosell, A. Camero, Kind, Matias Carrasco, Carretero, Jorge, da Costa, Luiz N., Desai, Shantanu, Diehl, Thomas, Eifler, Tim, Finley, David, Flaugher, Brenna, Glazebrook, Karl, Gruen, Daniel, Gruendl, Robert, Gutierrez, Gaston, Hinton, Samuel, Honscheid, Klaus, James, David, Kuehn, Kyler, Kuropatkin, Nikolav, Macaulay, Edward, Maia, M. A. G., Miquel, Ramon, Ogando, Ricardo, Plazas, Andres, Riel, Kevin, Sanchez, Eusebio, Santiago, Basillio, Schubnell, Michael, Sevilla-Noarbe, Ignacio, Smith, R. C., Soares-Santos, Marcelle, Sobreira, Flavia, Suchyta, Eric, Swanson, Molly, Tarle, Gregory, Thomas, Daniel, Uddin, Syed, Walker, Alistair, Zhang, Bonnie, and Collaboration, The DES

Subjects
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We present the discovery of a z=0.65 low-ionization broad absorption line (LoBAL) quasar in a post-starburst galaxy in data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and spectroscopy from the Australian Dark Energy Survey (OzDES). LoBAL quasars are a minority of all BALs, and rarer still is that this object also exhibits broad FeII (an FeLoBAL) and Balmer absorption. This is the first BAL quasar that has signatures of recently truncated star formation, which we estimate ended about 40 Myr ago. The characteristic signatures of an FeLoBAL require high column densities, which could be explained by the emergence of a young quasar from an early, dust-enshrouded phase, or by clouds compressed by a blast wave. The age of the starburst component is comparable to estimates of the lifetime of quasars, so if we assume the quasar activity is related to the truncation of the star formation, this object is better explained by the blast wave scenario., Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures, and 1 table; Submitted to MNRAS. For a brief video summarizing the paper, please see the Coffee Brief at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLhHSFU9u3g&feature=youtu.be Authors updated!

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2016
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14. First measurement of the Mg ii forest correlation function in the Epoch of Reionization.

Author

Tie, Suk Sien, Hennawi, Joseph F, Wang, Feige, Onorato, Silvia, Yang, Jinyi, Bañados, Eduardo, Davies, Frederick B, and Oñorbe, Jose

Subjects
*INTERSTELLAR medium, *FOREST measurement, *STATISTICAL correlation, *HYDRODYNAMICS, *GALAXIES, *QUASARS
Abstract

Strong low-ionization transitions like the Mg  ii |$\lambda 2796,2804$|  Å doublet are believed to produce a detectable 'metal-line forest', if metals pollute the neutral intergalatic medium (IGM). We measure the autocorrelation of the Mg  ii forest transmission using 10 ground-based |$z \ge 6.80$| quasar spectra probing the redshift range |$5.96 \lt z_{\rm Mg\, {\small II}} \lt 7.42$| (⁠|$z_{\rm Mg\, {\small II}, median} = 6.47$|⁠). The correlation function exhibits strong small-scale clustering and a pronounced peak at the doublet velocity (⁠|$\Delta v = 768~{\rm km\, s^{-1}}$|⁠) arising from discrete absorbers in the circumgalactic medium of galaxies. After these strong absorbers are identified and masked the signal is consistent with noise. Our measurements are compared to a suite of models generated by combining a large hydrodynamical simulation with a seminumerical reionization topology, assuming a simple uniform enrichment model. We obtain a 95 per cent credibility upper limit of |$[{\rm Mg/H}] \lt -3.73$| at |$z_{\rm Mg\, {\small II},median} = 6.47$|⁠ , assuming uninformative priors on [Mg/H] and the IGM neutral fraction |$x_{\rm {H\, {\small I}}}$|⁠. Splitting the data into low- z (⁠|$5.96 \lt z_{\rm Mg\, {\small II}} \lt 6.47$|⁠ ; |$z_{\rm Mg\, {\small II},median} = 6.235$|⁠) and high- z (⁠|$6.47 \lt z_{\rm Mg\, {\small II}} \lt 7.42$|⁠ ; |$z_{\rm Mg\, {\small II},median} = 6.72$|⁠) subsamples again yields null detections and 95 per cent upper limits of |$[{\rm Mg/H}] \lt -3.75$| and |$\lt -3.45$|⁠ , respectively. These first measurements set the stage for making the Mg ii forest an emerging tool to precisely constrain the Universe reionization and enrichment history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2024
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15. Overview of the Instrumentation for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

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DESI Collaboration, 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., Capasso, 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., Costa, L. Da, Cousinou, M.-C., Cuceu, A., Davis, T. M., Dawson, K., Cruz-Noriega, R. De La, Macorra, A. De La, Mattia, A. De, Costa, J. Della, 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., A Gontcho, S. Gontcho, 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., Martini, Paul, McCollam, W., McDonald, P., Meisner, Aaron M., Mena-Fernández, J., Meneses-Rizo, J., Mezcua, M., Miller, T., Miquel, R., Montero-Camacho, P., Moon, 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-Ràfols, 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. 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Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, redshift 0.6, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, QB Astronomy, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), QC, QB, MCC, Astronomy and Astrophysics, DAS, space, distortions, peak, Laboratory Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Software, and Data, QC Physics, Space and Planetary Science, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET] Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], astro-ph.CO, galaxy sample, power-spectrum, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], growth-rate, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, astro-ph.IM
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Full list of authors: Abareshi, B.; Aguilar, J.; Ahlen, S.; Alam, Shadab; Alexander, David M.; Alfarsy, R.; Allen, L.; Allende Prieto, C.; Alves, O.; Ameel, J.; Armengaud, E.; Asorey, J.; Aviles, Alejandro; Bailey, S.; Balaguera-Antolinez, 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.; Capasso, R.; Carnero Rosell, A.; 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.; Gansicke, B. T.; Garcia-Quintero, C.; Garrison, L.; Gaztanaga, E.; Gerardi, F.; Gil-Marin, 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.; Irsic, V; Ishak, M.; Jelinsky, P.; Jiang, L.; Jimenez, J.; Jing, Y. P.; Joyce, R.; Jullo, E.; Juneau, S.; Karacayli, N. G.; Karamanis, M.; Karcher, A.; Karim, T.; Kehoe, R.; Kent, S.; Kirkby, D.; Kisner, T.; Kitaura, F.; Koposov, S. E.; Kovacs, 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.; Le Guillou, L.; Leauthaud, A.; Suu, A. Le Van; Levi, Michael E.; Li, T. S.; Magneville, C.; Manera, M.; Manser, Christopher J.; Marshall, B.; Martini, Paul; McCollam, W.; McDonald, P.; Meisner, Aaron M.; Mena-Fernandez, J.; Meneses-Rizo, J.; Mezcua, M.; Miller, T.; Miquel, R.; Montero-Camacho, P.; Moon, J.; Moustakas, J.; Mueller, E.; Munoz-Gutierrez, 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, Hernan 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.; Perez-Fernandez, A.; Perez-Rafols, I; Rabinowitz, D.; Raichoor, A.; Ramirez-Solano, S.; Ramirez-Perez, Cesar; 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.; Tarle, Gregory; Tie, Suk Sien; Tojeiro, R.; Urena-Lopez, L. A.; Valdes, F.; Valenzuela, O.; Valluri, M.; Vargas-Magana, 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.; Yeche, Christophe; Zhang, H.; Zhang, K.; Zhao, Cheng; Zhou, Rongpu; Zhou, Zhimin; Zou, H.; Zou, J.; Zou, S.; Zu, Y.; DESI Collaboration.--This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited., The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) embarked on an ambitious 5 yr survey in 2021 May to explore the nature of dark energy with spectroscopic measurements 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 beyond redshift z > 3.5, and employ redshift space distortions to measure the growth of structure and probe potential modifications to general relativity. We describe the significant instrumentation we developed to conduct the DESI survey. This includes: a wide-field, 3fdg2 diameter prime-focus corrector; a focal plane system with 5020 fiber positioners on the 0.812 m diameter, aspheric focal surface; 10 continuous, high-efficiency fiber cable bundles that connect the focal plane to the spectrographs; and 10 identical spectrographs. Each spectrograph employs a pair of dichroics to split the light into three channels that together record the light from 360–980 nm with a spectral resolution that ranges from 2000–5000. We describe the science requirements, their connection to the technical requirements, the management of the project, and interfaces between subsystems. DESI was installed at the 4 m Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory and has achieved all of its performance goals. Some performance highlights include an rms positioner accuracy of better than 0farcs1 and a median signal-to-noise ratio of 7 of the [O ii] doublet at 8 × 10−17 erg s−1 cm−2 in 1000 s for galaxies at z = 1.4–1.6. We conclude with additional highlights from the on-sky validation and commissioning, key successes, and lessons learned. © 2022. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society., This research is supported by the Director, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics of the U.S. Department of Energy under contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231, and by the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science User Facility under the same contract. Additional support for DESI is provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation, Division of Astronomical Sciences under contract No. AST-0950945 to the NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory; the Science and Technologies Facilities Council of the United Kingdom; the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; the Heising–Simons Foundation; the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA); the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico (CONACYT); the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain, and by the DESI Member Institutions: Aix-Marseille University; Argonne National Laboratory; Barcelona-Madrid Regional Participation Group; Brookhaven National Laboratory; Boston University; Brazil Regional Participation Group; Carnegie Mellon University; CEA-IRFU, Saclay; China Participation Group; Cornell University; Durham University; École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory; Granada-Madrid-Tenerife Regional Participation Group; Harvard University; Kansas State University; Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute; Korea Institute for Advanced Study; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies; Ludwig Maximilians University; Max Planck Institute; Mexico Regional Participation Group; New York University; NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory; Ohio University; Perimeter Institute; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Siena College; SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory; Southern Methodist University; Swinburne University; The Ohio State University; Universidad de los Andes; University of Arizona; University of Barcelona; University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Irvine; University of California, Santa Cruz; University College London; University of Florida; University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; University of Pennsylvania; University of Pittsburgh; University of Portsmouth; University of Queensland; University of Rochester; University of Toronto; University of Utah; University of Waterloo; University of Wyoming; University of Zurich; UK Regional Participation Group; and Yale University. This work has made use of data from the European Space Agency (ESA) mission Gaia (https://www.cosmos.esa.int/gaia), processed by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC; https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dpac/consortium). Funding for the DPAC has been provided by national institutions, in particular the institutions participating in the Gaia Multilateral Agreement., With funding from the Spanish government through the Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence accreditation SEV-2017-0709.

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16. The Robotic Multiobject Focal Plane System of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)

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Silber, Joseph Harry, primary, Fagrelius, Parker, additional, Fanning, Kevin, additional, Schubnell, Michael, additional, Aguilar, Jessica Nicole, additional, Ahlen, Steven, additional, Ameel, Jon, additional, Ballester, Otger, additional, Baltay, Charles, additional, Bebek, Chris, additional, Beard, Dominic Benton, additional, Besuner, Robert, additional, Cardiel-Sas, Laia, additional, Casas, Ricard, additional, Castander, Francisco Javier, additional, Claybaugh, Todd, additional, Dobson, Carl, additional, Duan, Yutong, additional, Dunlop, Patrick, additional, Edelstein, Jerry, additional, Emmet, William T., additional, Elliott, Ann, additional, Evatt, Matthew, additional, Gershkovich, Irena, additional, Guy, Julien, additional, Harris, Stu, additional, Heetderks, Henry, additional, Heetderks, Ian, additional, Honscheid, Klaus, additional, Illa, Jose Maria, additional, Jelinsky, Patrick, additional, Jelinsky, Sharon R., additional, Jimenez, Jorge, additional, Karcher, Armin, additional, Kent, Stephen, additional, Kirkby, David, additional, Kneib, Jean-Paul, additional, Lambert, Andrew, additional, Lampton, Mike, additional, Leitner, Daniela, additional, Levi, Michael, additional, McCauley, Jeremy, additional, Meisner, Aaron, additional, Miller, Timothy N., additional, Miquel, Ramon, additional, Mundet, Juliá, additional, Poppett, Claire, additional, Rabinowitz, David, additional, Reil, Kevin, additional, Roman, David, additional, Schlegel, David, additional, Serrano, Santiago, additional, Van Shourt, William, additional, Sprayberry, David, additional, Tarlé, Gregory, additional, Tie, Suk Sien, additional, Weaverdyck, Curtis, additional, Zhang, Kai, additional, Azzaro, Marco, additional, Bailey, Stephen, additional, Becerril, Santiago, additional, Blackwell, Tami, additional, Bouri, Mohamed, additional, Brooks, David, additional, Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth, additional, Castro, Jose Peñate, additional, Derwent, Mark, additional, Dey, Arjun, additional, Dhungana, Govinda, additional, Doel, Peter, additional, Eisenstein, Daniel J., additional, Fahim, Nasib, additional, Garcia-Bellido, Juan, additional, Gaztañaga, Enrique, additional, A Gontcho, Satya Gontcho, additional, Gutierrez, Gaston, additional, Hörler, Philipp, additional, Kehoe, Robert, additional, Kisner, Theodore, additional, Kremin, Anthony, additional, Kronig, Luzius, additional, Landriau, Martin, additional, Le Guillou, Laurent, additional, Martini, Paul, additional, Moustakas, John, additional, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, additional, Peng, Xiyan, additional, Percival, Will, additional, Prada, Francisco, additional, Prieto, Carlos Allende, additional, de Rivera, Guillermo Gonzalez, additional, Sanchez, Eusebio, additional, Sanchez, Justo, additional, Sharples, Ray, additional, Soares-Santos, Marcelle, additional, Schlafly, Edward, additional, Weaver, Benjamin Alan, additional, Zhou, Zhimin, additional, Zhu, Yaling, additional, and Zou, Hu, additional

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

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

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2022
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19. The DESI sky continuum monitor system

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Tie, Suk Sien, primary, Kirkby, David, additional, Martini, Paul, additional, Poppett, Claire L., additional, Pappalardo, Daniel, additional, Schlegel, David J., additional, Shover, Jon, additional, Guy, Julien, additional, Fanning, Kevin, additional, Honscheid, Klaus, additional, Lampton, Michael, additional, Jelinsky, Patrick N., additional, Besuner, Robert W., additional, Zhang, Kai, additional, Brooks, David, additional, Doel, Peter, additional, Duan, Yutong, additional, Gastanaga, Enrique, additional, Kehoe, Robert, additional, Landriau, Martin, additional, Levi, Michael, additional, Prada, Francisco, additional, and Tarle, Gregory, additional

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2020
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21. Overview of the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys

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Dey, Arjun, primary, Schlegel, David J., additional, Lang, Dustin, additional, Blum, Robert, additional, Burleigh, Kaylan, additional, Fan, Xiaohui, additional, Findlay, Joseph R., additional, Finkbeiner, Doug, additional, Herrera, David, additional, Juneau, Stéphanie, additional, Landriau, Martin, additional, Levi, Michael, additional, McGreer, Ian, additional, Meisner, Aaron, additional, Myers, Adam D., additional, Moustakas, John, additional, Nugent, Peter, additional, Patej, Anna, additional, Schlafly, Edward F., additional, Walker, Alistair R., additional, Valdes, Francisco, additional, Weaver, Benjamin A., additional, Yèche, Christophe, additional, Zou, Hu, additional, Zhou, Xu, additional, Abareshi, Behzad, additional, Abbott, T. M. C., additional, Abolfathi, Bela, additional, Aguilera, C., additional, Alam, Shadab, additional, Allen, Lori, additional, Alvarez, A., additional, Annis, James, additional, Ansarinejad, Behzad, additional, Aubert, Marie, additional, Beechert, Jacqueline, additional, Bell, Eric F., additional, BenZvi, Segev Y., additional, Beutler, Florian, additional, Bielby, Richard M., additional, Bolton, Adam S., additional, Briceño, César, additional, Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth J., additional, Butler, Karen, additional, Calamida, Annalisa, additional, Carlberg, Raymond G., additional, Carter, Paul, additional, Casas, Ricard, additional, Castander, Francisco J., additional, Choi, Yumi, additional, Comparat, Johan, additional, Cukanovaite, Elena, additional, Delubac, Timothée, additional, DeVries, Kaitlin, additional, Dey, Sharmila, additional, Dhungana, Govinda, additional, Dickinson, Mark, additional, Ding, Zhejie, additional, Donaldson, John B., additional, Duan, Yutong, additional, Duckworth, Christopher J., additional, Eftekharzadeh, Sarah, additional, Eisenstein, Daniel J., additional, Etourneau, Thomas, additional, Fagrelius, Parker A., additional, Farihi, Jay, additional, Fitzpatrick, Mike, additional, Font-Ribera, Andreu, additional, Fulmer, Leah, additional, Gänsicke, Boris T., additional, Gaztanaga, Enrique, additional, George, Koshy, additional, Gerdes, David W., additional, A Gontcho, Satya Gontcho, additional, Gorgoni, Claudio, additional, Green, Gregory, additional, Guy, Julien, additional, Harmer, Diane, additional, Hernandez, M., additional, Honscheid, Klaus, additional, Huang, Lijuan (Wendy), additional, James, David J., additional, Jannuzi, Buell T., additional, Jiang, Linhua, additional, Joyce, Richard, additional, Karcher, Armin, additional, Karkar, Sonia, additional, Kehoe, Robert, additional, Kneib, Jean-Paul,, additional, Kueter-Young, Andrea, additional, Lan, Ting-Wen, additional, Lauer, Tod R., additional, Guillou, Laurent Le, additional, Van Suu, Auguste Le, additional, Lee, Jae Hyeon, additional, Lesser, Michael, additional, Levasseur, Laurence Perreault, additional, Li, Ting S., additional, Mann, Justin L., additional, Marshall, Robert, additional, Martínez-Vázquez, C. E., additional, Martini, Paul, additional, du Mas des Bourboux, Hélion, additional, McManus, Sean, additional, Meier, Tobias Gabriel, additional, Ménard, Brice, additional, Metcalfe, Nigel, additional, Muñoz-Gutiérrez, Andrea, additional, Najita, Joan, additional, Napier, Kevin, additional, Narayan, Gautham, additional, Newman, Jeffrey A., additional, Nie, Jundan, additional, Nord, Brian, additional, Norman, Dara J., additional, Olsen, Knut A. G., additional, Paat, Anthony, additional, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, additional, Peng, Xiyan, additional, Poppett, Claire L., additional, Poremba, Megan R., additional, Prakash, Abhishek, additional, Rabinowitz, David, additional, Raichoor, Anand, additional, Rezaie, Mehdi, additional, Robertson, A. N., additional, Roe, Natalie A., additional, Ross, Ashley J., additional, Ross, Nicholas P., additional, Rudnick, Gregory, additional, Safonova, Sasha, additional, Saha, Abhijit, additional, Sánchez, F. Javier, additional, Savary, Elodie, additional, Schweiker, Heidi, additional, Scott, Adam, additional, Seo, Hee-Jong, additional, Shan, Huanyuan, additional, Silva, David R., additional, Slepian, Zachary, additional, Soto, Christian, additional, Sprayberry, David, additional, Staten, Ryan, additional, Stillman, Coley M., additional, Stupak, Robert J., additional, Summers, David L., additional, Tie, Suk Sien, additional, Tirado, H., additional, Vargas-Magaña, Mariana, additional, Vivas, A. Katherina, additional, Wechsler, Risa H., additional, Williams, Doug, additional, Yang, Jinyi, additional, Yang, Qian, additional, Yapici, Tolga, additional, Zaritsky, Dennis, additional, Zenteno, A., additional, Zhang, Kai, additional, Zhang, Tianmeng, additional, Zhou, Rongpu, additional, and Zhou, Zhimin, additional

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2019
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22. DESI commissioning instrument metrology

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Coles, Rebecca A., primary, Tie, Suk Sien, primary, Ross, Ashley J., primary, Derwent, Mark A., primary, O'Brien, Thomas P., primary, Martini, Paul, primary, and Brooks, David D., primary

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2018
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24. A study of quasar selection in the supernova fields of the Dark Energy Survey

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Tie, Suk Sien, Martini, Paul, Mudd, Dale, Ostrovski, F., Reed, Sophie L., Lidman, Chris, Kochanek, C.S., Davis, Tamara M., Sharp, Robert G., Uddin, Syed, King, Anthea L., Wester, William Carl, Tucker, Bradley, Tucker, Douglas L., Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth, Carollo, Daniela, Childress, Michael, Glazebrook, Karl, Hinton, Samuel, Lewis, Geraint F., Macaulay, Edward, O'Neill, C. R., Abbott, Timothy M. C., Abdalla, Filipe B., Annis, James T., Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien, Bertin, Emmanuel, Brooks, D., Carnero Rosell, Aurelio, Carrasco Kind, Matías, Carretero Palacios, Jorge, Cunha, Carlos Eduardo, Costa, Luiz N. da, DePoy, Darren L., Desai, S., Doel, Peter, Eifler, Tim, Evrard, August E., Finley, David A., Flaugher, Brenna, Fosalba Vela, Pablo, Frieman, Joshua A., García-Bellido, Juan, Gaztañaga, Enrique, Gerdes, David W., Goldstein, Daniel Abraham, Gruen, Daniel, Gruendl, Robert A., Gutierrez, Gaston R., Honscheid, K., James, David J., Kuehn, Kyler, Kuropatkin, Nikolay P., Lima, Marcos Vinicius Borges Teixeira, Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba, Marshall, Jennifer L., Menanteau, Felipe, Miller, Christopher J., Miquel, Ramon, Nichol, Robert C., Nord, Brian Dennis, Ogando, Ricardo L.C., Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro, Romer, Anita K., Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio, Santiago, Basilio Xavier, Scarpine, Victor Emanuel, Schubnell, Michael, Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio, Smith, Robert Christopher, Soares-Santos, Marcelle, Sobreira, Flávia, Suchyta, Eric, Swanson, Molly E. C., Tarle, Gregory, Thomas, D., Walker, Alistair, and DES Collaboration

Subjects
Mapeamentos astronômicos, Fotometria astronômica, Catalogos astronomicos, general [Quasars], Quasars
Abstract

We present a study of quasar selection using the supernova fields of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We used a quasar catalog from an overlapping portion of the SDSS Stripe 82 region to quantify the completeness and efficiency of selection methods involving color, probabilistic modeling, variability, and combinations of color/ probabilistic modeling with variability. In all cases, we considered only objects that appear as point sources in the DES images. We examine color selection methods based on the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mid- IR W1 - W2 color, a mixture of WISE and DES colors (g − i and i - W1), and a mixture of Vista Hemisphere Survey and DES colors (g − i and i − K ). For probabilistic quasar selection, we used XDQSO, an algorithm that employs an empirical multi-wavelength flux model of quasars to assign quasar probabilities. Our variability selection uses the multi-band χ2-probability that sources are constant in the DES Year 1 griz-band light curves. The completeness and efficiency are calculated relative to an underlying sample of point sources that are detected in the required selection bands and pass our data quality and photometric error cuts. We conduct our analyses at two magnitude limits, i85% for both i-band magnitude limits and efficiencies of >80% to the bright limit and >60% to the faint limit; however, the giW1 and giW1+variability methods give the highest quasar surface densities. The XDQSOz method and combinations of W1W2/giW1/XDQSOz with variability are among the better selection methods when both high completeness and high efficiency are desired. We also present the OzDES Quasar Catalog of 1263 spectroscopically confirmed quasars from three years of OzDES observation in the 30 deg2 of the DES supernova fields. The catalog includes quasars with redshifts up to z4 and brighter than i = 22 mag, although the catalog is not complete up to this magnitude limit.

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2017

25. The DESI Experiment Part I: Science,Targeting, and Survey Design

Author

Aghamousa, Amir, Aguilar, Jessica, Ahlen, Steve, Alam, Shadab, Allen, Lori E., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Annis, James, Bailey, Stephen, Balland, Christophe, Ballester, Otger, Baltay, Charles, Beaufore, Lucas, Bebek, Chris, Beers, Timothy C., Bell, Eric F., Bernal, José Luis, Besuner, Robert, Beutler, Florian, Blake, Chris, Bleuler, Hannes, Blomqvist, Michael, Blum, Robert, Bolton, Adam S., Briceno, Cesar, Brooks, David, Brownstein, Joel R., Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth, Burden, Angela, Burtin, Etienne, Busca, Nicolás G., Cahn, Robert N., Cai, Yan-Chuan, Cardiel-Sas, Laia, Carlberg, Raymond G., Carton, Pierre-Henri, Casas, Ricard, Castander, Francisco J., Cervantes-Cota, Jorge L., Claybaugh, Todd M., Close, Madeline, Coker, Carl T., Cole, Shaun, Comparat, Johan, Cooper, Andrew P., Cousinou, M. -C., Crocce, Martin, Cuby, Jean-Gabriel, Cunningham, Daniel P., Davis, Tamara M., Dawson, Kyle S., de La Macorra, Axel, de Vicente, Juan, Delubac, Timothée, Derwent, Mark, Dey, Arjun, Dhungana, Govinda, Ding, Zhejie, Doel, Peter, Duan, Yutong T., Ealet, Anne, Edelstein, Jerry, Eftekharzadeh, Sarah, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Elliott, Ann, Escoffier, Stephanie, Evatt, Matthew, Fagrelius, Parker, Fan, Xiaohui, Fanning, Kevin, Farahi, Arya, Farihi, Jay, Favole, Ginevra, Feng, Yu, Fernandez, Enrique, Findlay, Joseph R., Finkbeiner, Douglas P., Fitzpatrick, Michael J., Flaugher, Brenna, Flender, Samuel, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Forero-Romero, Jaime E., Fosalba, Pablo, Frenk, Carlos S., Fumagalli, Michele, Gaensicke, Boris T., Gallo, Giuseppe, Garcia-Bellido, Juan, Gaztanaga, Enrique, Fusillo, Nicola Pietro Gentile, Gerard, Terry, Gershkovich, Irena, Giannantonio, Tommaso, Gillet, Denis, Gonzalez-De-Rivera, Guillermo, Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta, Gott, Shelby, Graur, Or, Gutierrez, Gaston, Guy, Julien, Habib, Salman, Heetderks, Henry, Heetderks, Ian, Heitmann, Katrin, Hellwing, Wojciech A., Herrera, David A., Ho, Shirley, Holland, Stephen, Honscheid, Klaus, Huff, Eric, Hutchinson, Timothy A., Huterer, Dragan, Hwang, Ho Seong, Laguna, Joseph Maria Illa, Ishikawa, Yuzo, Jacobs, Dianna, Jeffrey, Niall, Jelinsky, Patrick, Jennings, Elise, Jiang, Linhua, Jimenez, Jorge, Johnson, Jennifer, Joyce, Richard, Jullo, Eric, Juneau, Stéphanie, Kama, Sami, Karcher, Armin, Karkar, Sonia, Kehoe, Robert, Kennamer, Noble, Kent, Stephen, Kilbinger, Martin, Kim, Alex G., Kirkby, David, Kisner, Theodore, Kitanidis, Ellie, Kneib, Jean-Paul, Koposov, Sergey, Kovacs, Eve, Koyama, Kazuya, Kremin, Anthony, Kron, Richard, Kronig, Luzius, Kueter-Young, Andrea, Lacey, Cedric G., Lafever, Robin, Lahav, Ofer, Lambert, Andrew, Lampton, Michael, Landriau, Martin, Lang, Dustin, Lauer, Tod R., Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Guillou, Laurent Le, van Suu, Auguste Le, Lee, Jae Hyeon, Lee, Su-Jeong, Leitner, Daniela, Lesser, Michael, Levi, Michael E., L'Huillier, Benjamin, Li, Baojiu, Liang, Ming, Lin, Huan, Linder, Eric, Loebman, Sarah R., Lukić, Zarija, Ma, Jun, Maccrann, Niall, Magneville, Christophe, Makarem, Laleh, Manera, Marc, Manser, Christopher J., Marshall, Robert, Martini, Paul, Massey, Richard, Matheson, Thomas, Mccauley, Jeremy, Mcdonald, Patrick, Mcgreer, Ian D., Meisner, Aaron, Metcalfe, Nigel, Miller, Timothy N., Miquel, Ramon, Moustakas, John, Myers, Adam, Naik, Milind, Newman, Jeffrey A., Nichol, Robert C., Nicola, Andrina, da Costa, Luiz Nicolati, Nie, Jundan, Niz, Gustavo, Norberg, Peder, Nord, Brian, Norman, Dara, Nugent, Peter, O'Brien, Thomas, Oh, Minji, Olsen, Knut A. G., Padilla, Cristobal, Padmanabhan, Hamsa, Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Palmese, Antonella, Pappalardo, Daniel, Paris, Isabelle, Park, Changbom, Patej, Anna, Peacock, John A., Peiris, Hiranya V., Peng, Xiyan, Percival, Will J., Perruchot, Sandrine, Pieri, Matthew M., Pogge, Richard, Pollack, Jennifer E., Poppett, Claire, Prada, Francisco, Prakash, Abhishek, Probst, Ronald G., Rabinowitz, David, Raichoor, Anand, Ree, Chang Hee, Refregier, Alexandre, Régal, Xavier, Reid, Beth, Reil, Kevin, Rezaie, Mehdi, Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie, Ronayette, Samuel, Roodman, Aaron, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossi, Graziano, Rozo, Eduardo, Ruhlmann-Kleider, Vanina, Rykoff, Eli S., Sabiu, Cristiano, Samushia, Lado, Sanchez, Eusebio, Sanchez, Javier, Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Michael, Schubnell, Michael, Secroun, Aurélia, Seljak, Uros, Seo, Hee-Jong, Serrano, Santiago, Shafieloo, Arman, Shan, Huanyuan, Sharples, Ray, Sholl, Michael J., Shourt, William V., Silber, Joseph H., Silva, David R., Sirk, Martin M., Slosar, Anze, Smith, Alex, Smoot, George F., Som, Debopam, Song, Yong-Seon, Sprayberry, David, Staten, Ryan, Stefanik, Andy, Tarlè, Gregory, Tie, Suk Sien, Tinker, Jeremy L., Tojeiro, Rita, Valdes, Francisco, Valenzuela, Octavio, Valluri, Monica, Vargas-Magaña, Mariana, Verde, Licia, Walker, Alistair R., Wang, Jiali, Wang, Yuting, Weaver, Benjamin A., Weaverdyck, Curtis, Wechsler, Risa H., Weinberg, David H., White, Martin, Yang, Qian, Yeche, Christophe, Zhang, Tianmeng, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Yi, Zhou, Xu, Zhou, Zhimin, Zhu, Yaling, Zou, Hu, Zu, Ying, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI), Okayama University, University of California [Berkeley], University of California, National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO), Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC), Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [Berkeley] (LBNL), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Institut de Física d’Altes Energies [Barcelone] (IFAE), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Yale University [New Haven], Ohio State University [Columbus] (OSU), The University of Notre Dame [Sydney], Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan, University of Michigan [Ann Arbor], University of Michigan System-University of Michigan System, Institut de Ciencies del Cosmos (ICCUB), Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Space Sciences Laboratory [Berkeley] (SSL), University of California-University of California, University of Portsmouth, University of British Columbia (UBC), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - 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Subjects
[PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR.IM] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract

DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) is a Stage IV ground-based dark energy experiment that will study baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) and the growth of structure through redshift-space distortions with a wide-area galaxy and quasar redshift survey. To trace the underlying dark matter distribution, spectroscopic targets will be selected in four classes from imaging data. We will measure luminous red galaxies up to $z=1.0$. To probe the Universe out to even higher redshift, DESI will target bright [O II] emission line galaxies up to $z=1.7$. Quasars will be targeted both as direct tracers of the underlying dark matter distribution and, at higher redshifts ($ 2.1 < z < 3.5$), for the Ly-$\alpha$ forest absorption features in their spectra, which will be used to trace the distribution of neutral hydrogen. When moonlight prevents efficient observations of the faint targets of the baseline survey, DESI will conduct a magnitude-limited Bright Galaxy Survey comprising approximately 10 million galaxies with a median $z\approx 0.2$. In total, more than 30 million galaxy and quasar redshifts will be obtained to measure the BAO feature and determine the matter power spectrum, including redshift space distortions.

Published
2016

27. Lyman-alpha forest cosmology with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)

Author

Tie, Suk Sien

Subjects
Astronomy, Astrophysics
Abstract

The Lyman-alpha (Lya) forest is a unique probe of large scale structure for the study of matter clustering and cosmology. It probes a redshift range not currently accessible by galaxies and unrealizable by the redshifted 21 cm line, while also containing small scale information not imprinted in the larger scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) fluctuations and galaxy distributions. Measurement of the baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the forest thus complements cosmological constraints from other tracers of large scale structure. For study of the intergalatic medium (IGM), measurements of the forest constrain the process of reionization. We make the first theoretical prediction of the 3PCF of the Lya forest on sub-BAO scales, using a novel method that bootstraps results from a small-volume hydrodynamic simulation to a large-volume N-body simulation. We show that the flux 3PCF scales hierarchically with the square of the 2PCF, consistent with structure formation from gravitational instabilities and as predicted by perturbation theory. A fluctuating UV background changes the 2PCF and 3PCF of the Lya forest at all scales to give systematically larger values as the UV background becomes more inhomogeneous. A combination of the two- and three-point clustering measurements could therefore allow better separation between UV background fluctuations and other astrophysical and cosmological parameters. We conduct a comprehensive study of quasar selection methods by quantifying their completeness and efficiency using data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) supernova fields. We show that probabilistic selection with XDQSOz and the combination of color or probabilistic selection with variability information are highly efficient and produce highly complete quasar samples. These selection methods could facilitate selecting quasar sight-lines to observe the Lya forest for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI).We describe the DESI Sky Continuum Monitor System that tracks the night sky brightness as part of the DESI dynamic exposure time calculator (ETC) to help produce more uniform data quality and maximize observing efficiency. The Sky Monitors have been completed, delivered, and commissioned, and we show that they achieve the performance necessary for the dynamic ETC. We detail our efforts to enhance and validate the DESI anticollision (AC) software for the fiber positioners. We create a collision lookup table to replace on-the-fly collision checking, and show that it improves the code run time and produces comparable accuracy as real-time collision checking. By investigating persistent collisions and running simulations, we contribute towards new path adjustments to avoid collisions. Finally, we demonstrate the functionality of the AC software using real hardware in a series of end-to-end tests, which serves as a significant step towards operating the AC software on the entire DESI focal plane. Collectively, our work represents a series of undertakings encompassing aspects of simulations, observations, and instrumentation towards a successful Lya forest cosmology program for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI).

Published
2020

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