Overview of the DESI Milky Way Survey

Overview of the DESI Milky Way Survey

We describe the Milky Way Survey (MWS) that will be undertaken with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) on the Mayall 4 m telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory. Over the next 5 yr DESI MWS will observe approximately seven million stars at Galactic latitudes ∣ b ∣ > 20°, with...

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Main Authors: Andrew P. Cooper, Sergey E. Koposov, Carlos Allende Prieto, Christopher J. Manser, Namitha Kizhuprakkat, Adam D. Myers, Arjun Dey, Boris T. Gänsicke, Ting S. Li, Constance Rockosi, Monica Valluri, Joan Najita, Alis Deason, Anand Raichoor, M.-Y. Wang, Y.-S. Ting, Bokyoung Kim, Andreia Carrillo, Wenting Wang, Leandro Beraldo e Silva, Jiwon Jesse Han, Jiani Ding, Miguel Sánchez-Conde, Jessica N. Aguilar, Steven Ahlen, Stephen Bailey, Vasily Belokurov, David Brooks, Katia Cunha, Kyle Dawson, Axel de la Macorra, Peter Doel, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Parker Fagrelius, Kevin Fanning, Andreu Font-Ribera, Jaime E. Forero-Romero, Enrique Gaztañaga, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Julien Guy, Klaus Honscheid, Robert Kehoe, Theodore Kisner, Anthony Kremin, Martin Landriau, Michael E. Levi, Paul Martini, Aaron M. Meisner, Ramon Miquel, John Moustakas, Jundan J. D. Nie, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Will J. Percival, Claire Poppett, Francisco Prada, Nabeel Rehemtulla, Edward Schlafly, David Schlegel, Michael Schubnell, Ray M. Sharples, Gregory Tarlé, Risa H. Wechsler, David H. Weinberg, Zhimin Zhou, Hu Zou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal
Subjects:
Milky Way stellar halo
Dwarf galaxies
Milky Way evolution
Milky Way Galaxy
Milky Way dark matter halo
Milky Way dynamics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acb3c0

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