The DESI Experiment Part II: Instrument Design

Kavli Affiliate: Kevin Reil | Summary: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 […]


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

Kavli Affiliate: Kevin Reil | Summary: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 […]


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Accurate Polarization Calibration at 800 MHz with the Green Bank Telescope

Kavli Affiliate: Kiyoshi Wesley Masui | Summary:Polarization leakage of foreground synchrotron emission is a critical issue in HI intensity mapping experiments. While the sought-after HI emission is unpolarized, polarized foregrounds such as Galactic and extragalactic synchrotron radiation, if coupled with instrumental impurity, can mimic or overwhelm the HI signals. In this paper we present the […]


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Constraint on the inflow/outflow rates in star-forming galaxies at z~1.4 from molecular gas observations

Kavli Affiliate: Naoyuki Tamura | Summary:We constrain the rate of gas inflow into and outflow from a main-sequence star-forming galaxy at z~1.4 by fitting a simple analytic model for the chemical evolution in a galaxy to the observational data of the stellar mass, metallicity, and molecular gas mass fraction. The molecular gas mass is derived […]


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Mapping the Microscale Origins of MRI Contrast with Subcellular NV Diamond Magnetometry

Kavli Affiliate: Mikhail Shapiro | Summary:Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a widely used biomedical imaging modality that derives much of its contrast from microscale magnetic field gradients in biological tissues. However, the connection between these sub-voxel field patterns and MRI contrast has not been studied experimentally. Here, we describe a new method to map subcellular […]


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