Early Results Using the Lyman-alpha Forest in DESI

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is a multi-object spectrograph on the 4-m Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. The main goal of DESI is to measure with unprecedented precision the expansion history of the Universe with the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) technique and the growth rate of structure with Redshift Space Distortions.

In this talk I will present initial results using the Lyman-alpha forest of high redshift quasars (z ~2-3) from the first two months of DESI data, and compare them with previous measurements.

*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 (MICINN), and by the DESI Member Institutions: https://www.desi.lbl.gov/collaborating-institutions.The authors are honored to be permitted to conduct scientific research on Iolkam Du’ag (Kitt Peak), a mountain with particular significance to the Tohono O’odham Nation.

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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

2023 APS April Meeting

Volume 68, Number 6

Minneapolis, Minnesota (Apr 15-18)Virtual (Apr 24-26); Time Zone: Central Time

Session U14: Large Scale Structure Surveys: Updates from DESI and Other Projects

Abstract: U14.00005 : Early Results Using the Lyman-alpha Forest in DESI*

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