The DESI Experiment, a whitepaper for Snowmass 2013

By M. Levi, C. Bebek, Timothy C. Beers, R. Blum, Robert Cahn, Daniel J. Eisenstein, B. Flaugher, K. Honscheid, R. Kron, Ofer Lahav and 4 more. 2013

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The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is a massively multiplexed fiber-fed spectrograph that will make the next major advance in dark energy in the timeframe 2018-2022. On the Mayall telescope, DESI will obtain spectra and redshifts for at least 18 million emission-line galaxies, 4 million luminous red galaxies and 3 million quasi-stellar objects, in order to: probe the effects of dark energy on the expansion history using baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), measure the gravitational growth history through redshift-space distortions, measure the sum of neutrino masses, and investigate the signatures of primordial inflation. The resulting 3-D galaxy maps at z 2 will make 1%-level measurements of the distance scale in 35 redshift bins, thus providing unprecedented constraints on cosmological models.

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Cosmic X-ray surveys of distant active galaxies (2015, background): “…Euclid; Mayall-DESI; SDSS IV-eBOSS; Subaru-PFS; VISTA-4MOST; VLT-MOONS; e.g., Laureijs et al 2011; Abdalla et al 2012; de Jong et al 2012; Levi et al 2013; Sugai et al 2014; Takada et al 2014; Cirasuolo et al 2014) will provide the spectroscopic complement to large-area and…”
Dark energy in the swampland (2018, background): “This is the main goal of Stage-4 surveys such as DESI, LSST, Euclid, and others [11].”
Project Overview of the Beijing–Arizona Sky Survey (2017, methodology): “The survey is designed to probe the expansion history of the universe at 0 < z < 3.5 using the baryon acoustic oscillation scale, and to map the dark matter and gravitational growth through redshift space distortions (Schlegel et al. 2011; Levi et al. 2013).”
The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Cosmological implications of the configuration-space clustering wedges (2016, methodology): “The application of the methodology presented here to galaxy samples from future surveys such as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (Levi et al. 2013) and the ESA space mission Euclid (Laureijs et al. 2011) will help to push our tests of the CDM paradigm to even higher accuracies.”
A 6% measurement of the Hubble parameter at z∼0.45: direct evidence of the epoch of cosmic re-acceleration (2016, background): “From this point of view, future missions like Euclid [81], WFIRST [82], DESI [83] and LSST [84] will represent an ideal starting point at these high redshifts.”
CMB-S4 Science Case, Reference Design, and Project Plan (2019, background): “Furthermore, many new data sets in many wavelength ranges will be available on the timescale of CMB-S4 that will both be deeper and have wider sky coverage than many of the studies carried out so far, including: LSST [347] for both photometric galaxy catalogs and weak lensing; DESI [376] for spectro”
Lensing is Low: Cosmology, Galaxy Formation, or New Physics? (2016, methodology): “Assembly bias and the details of the galaxy–halo connection may become an important systematic effect for RSD constraints from upcoming surveys such as DESI (Levi et al. 2013).”
Simultaneous constraints on the growth of structure and cosmic expansion from the multipole power spectra of the SDSS DR7 LRG sample (2013, background): “…Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) (for the latest data release (DR), see Ahn et al. (2013)), WiggleZ dark energy survey (Blake et al. 2009a), Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) Survey (Ellis et al. 2012), Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) (Levi et al. 2013) and Euclid (Laureijs et al. 2011).”
SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 12: galaxy target selection and large-scale structure catalogues (2015, methodology): “…to the next generation with a new MOS being developed for the Hobby–Eberly telescope (HETDEX; Hill et al. 2008), the Mayall telescope (DESI; Levi et al. 2013), the VISTA telescope (4MOST; de Jong et al. 2014), the William Herschel Telescope (WEAVE; Dalton et al. 2014), the Subaru…”
A systematic search for changing-look quasars in SDSS (2015, background): “On the longer term, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will survey ∼ 2.4× 106 quasars (Levi et al. 2013), providing ample opportunity for obtaining additional spectroscopic epochs for highly-variable AGN.”