The Astronomical Journal (Jan 2023)
The DESI Bright Galaxy Survey: Final Target Selection, Design, and Validation
- ChangHoon Hahn,
- Michael J. Wilson,
- Omar Ruiz-Macias,
- Shaun Cole,
- David H. Weinberg,
- John Moustakas,
- Anthony Kremin,
- Jeremy L. Tinker,
- Alex Smith,
- Risa H. Wechsler,
- Steven Ahlen,
- Shadab Alam,
- Stephen Bailey,
- David Brooks,
- Andrew P. Cooper,
- Tamara M. Davis,
- Kyle Dawson,
- Arjun Dey,
- Biprateep Dey,
- Sarah Eftekharzadeh,
- Daniel J. Eisenstein,
- Kevin Fanning,
- Jaime E. Forero-Romero,
- Carlos S. Frenk,
- Enrique Gaztañaga,
- Satya Gontcho A Gontcho,
- Julien Guy,
- Klaus Honscheid,
- Mustapha Ishak,
- Stéphanie Juneau,
- Robert Kehoe,
- Theodore Kisner,
- Ting-Wen Lan,
- Martin Landriau,
- Laurent Le Guillou,
- Michael E. Levi,
- Christophe Magneville,
- Paul Martini,
- Aaron Meisner,
- Adam D. Myers,
- Jundan Nie,
- Peder Norberg,
- Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille,
- Will J. Percival,
- Claire Poppett,
- Francisco Prada,
- Anand Raichoor,
- Ashley J. Ross,
- Sasha Gaines,
- Christoph Saulder,
- Eddie Schlafly,
- David Schlegel,
- David Sierra-Porta,
- Gregory Tarle,
- Benjamin A. Weaver,
- Christophe Yèche,
- Pauline Zarrouk,
- Rongpu Zhou,
- Zhimin Zhou,
- Hu Zou
Affiliations
- ChangHoon Hahn
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- Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University , Peyton Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA ; [email protected]; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Michael J. Wilson
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Institute for Computational Cosmology, Department of Physics, Durham University , South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK
- Omar Ruiz-Macias
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- Institute for Computational Cosmology, Department of Physics, Durham University , South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK
- Shaun Cole
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- Institute for Computational Cosmology, Department of Physics, Durham University , South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK
- David H. Weinberg
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- Department of Astronomy and the Center for Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, The Ohio State University , 140 West 18th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
- John Moustakas
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Siena College , 515 Loudon Road, Loudonville, NY 12211, USA
- Anthony Kremin
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Jeremy L. Tinker
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- Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, Department of Physics, New York University , New York, NY 10003, USA
- Alex Smith
- Institute for Computational Cosmology, Department of Physics, Durham University , South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK; IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay , F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France; Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh , Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK
- Risa H. Wechsler
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University , 382 Via Pueblo Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University , Stanford, CA 94305, USA; SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
- Steven Ahlen
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- Physics Dept., Boston University , 590 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA
- Shadab Alam
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- Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh , Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK
- Stephen Bailey
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- David Brooks
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University College London , Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
- Andrew P. Cooper
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- Institute of Astronomy and Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University , 101 Kuang-Fu Rd. Sec. 2, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan
- Tamara M. Davis
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- School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Queensland , 4101, Australia
- Kyle Dawson
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Utah , 115 South 1400 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
- Arjun Dey
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- NSF’s NOIRLab , 950 N. Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA
- Biprateep Dey
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy and Pittsburgh Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology Center (PITT PACC), University of Pittsburgh , 3941 O’Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
- Sarah Eftekharzadeh
- Universities Space Research Association , NASA Ames Research Centre, USA
- Daniel J. Eisenstein
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- Center for Astrophysics ∣ Harvard & Smithsonian, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Kevin Fanning
- Department of Physics, The Ohio State University , 191 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA; Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics, The Ohio State University , 191 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
- Jaime E. Forero-Romero
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- Departamento de Física, Universidad de los Andes , Cra. 1 No. 18A-10, Bogotá, Colombia
- Carlos S. Frenk
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- Institute for Computational Cosmology, Department of Physics, Durham University , South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK
- Enrique Gaztañaga
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- Institut de Cìencies de l’Espai , IEEC-CSIC, Campus UAB, Carrer de Can Magrans s/n, E-08913 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
- Satya Gontcho A Gontcho
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester , 500 Joseph C. Wilson Boulevard, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
- Julien Guy
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Klaus Honscheid
- Department of Physics, The Ohio State University , 191 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
- Mustapha Ishak
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- Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Dallas , Richardson, TX 75080, USA
- Stéphanie Juneau
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- NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory , 950 N. Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA
- Robert Kehoe
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University , 3215 Daniel Avenue, Dallas, TX 75275, USA
- Theodore Kisner
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Ting-Wen Lan
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- Department of Physics, National Taiwan University , Taipei 10617, Taiwan; Graduate Institute of Astrophysics, National Taiwan University , Taipei 10617, Taiwan
- Martin Landriau
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Laurent Le Guillou
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- Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Diderot , CNRS/IN2P3, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies, LPNHE, 4 place Jussieu, F-75252 Paris, France
- Michael E. Levi
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Christophe Magneville
- CEA Saclay , IRFU F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- Paul Martini
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- Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics, The Ohio State University , 191 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA; Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University , 4055 McPherson Laboratory, 140 W. 18th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
- Aaron Meisner
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- NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory , 950 N. Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA
- Adam D. Myers
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Wyoming , 1000 E. University, Dept. 3905, Laramie, WY 82071, USA
- Jundan Nie
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- National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences , A20 Datun Rd., Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101, People’s Republic of China
- Peder Norberg
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- Institute for Computational Cosmology, Department of Physics, Durham University , South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK; Center for Extragalactic Astronomy, Department of Physics, Durham University , South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK
- Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; CEA Saclay , IRFU F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- Will J. Percival
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- Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics, University of Waterloo , 200 University Avenue W, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo , 200 University Avenue W, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada; Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, 31 Caroline Street N, Waterloo, ON N2L 2Y5, Canada
- Claire Poppett
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Francisco Prada
- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC) , Glorieta de la Astronomía, s/n, E-18008 Granada, Spain
- Anand Raichoor
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Ashley J. Ross
- Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics, The Ohio State University , 191 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
- Sasha Gaines
- Physics Department, Yale University , P.O. Box 208120, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
- Christoph Saulder
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- Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute , 776, Daedeokdae-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34055, Republic of Korea
- Eddie Schlafly
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory , P.O. Box 808 L-211, Livermore, CA 94551, USA
- David Schlegel
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- David Sierra-Porta
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- Departamento de Física, Universidad de los Andes , Cra. 1 No. 18A-10, Bogotá, Colombia; Facultad de Ciencias Básicas. Universidad Tecnológica de Bolivar . Cartagena 130010, Colombia
- Gregory Tarle
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- Department of Physics, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
- Benjamin A. Weaver
- NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory , 950 N. Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA
- Christophe Yèche
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- CEA Saclay , IRFU F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- Pauline Zarrouk
- Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Diderot , CNRS/IN2P3, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies, LPNHE, 4 place Jussieu, F-75252 Paris, France
- Rongpu Zhou
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Zhimin Zhou
- National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences , A20 Datun Rd., Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101, People’s Republic of China
- Hu Zou
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- National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences , A20 Datun Rd., Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101, People’s Republic of China
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/accff8
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 165,
no. 6
p. 253
Abstract
Over the next 5 yr, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will use 10 spectrographs with 5000 fibers on the 4 m Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory to conduct the first Stage IV dark energy galaxy survey. At z 10 million galaxies spanning 14,000 deg ^2 . In this work, we present and validate the final BGS target selection and survey design. From the Legacy Surveys, BGS will target an r 80% fiber assignment efficiency. Finally, BGS Bright and BGS Faint will achieve >95% redshift success over any observing condition. BGS meets the requirements for an extensive range of scientific applications. BGS will yield the most precise baryon acoustic oscillation and redshift-space distortion measurements at z < 0.4. It presents opportunities for new methods that require highly complete and dense samples (e.g., N -point statistics, multitracers). BGS further provides a powerful tool to study galaxy populations and the relations between galaxies and dark matter.
Keywords
- Observational cosmology
- Cosmology
- Redshift surveys
- Galaxies
- Galactic and extragalactic astronomy
- Galaxy spectroscopy
