Collaborators within DESI hope the experiment’s data will benefit researchers and enable those without access to large telescopes to advance their work. A major component of the data release is documentation to support other scientists, even those unfamiliar with the project, in understanding its contents. 

“We’re still discovering all the things you can do with this dataset, and we want the community to be able to try out all their creative ideas,” said Anthony Kremin, a project scientist at Berkeley Lab who co-led processing of the new data release. “There are endless kinds of interesting science you can do when you combine our data with outside information.”

The DESI DR1 paper is available on the DESI Data website and will be posted on the online repository, arXiv. Videos discussing the data release are available on the DESI YouTube channel. Members of the collaboration presented the data release alongside DESI’s newest dark energy analysis (which uses three years of data) in talks today at the American Physical Society’s Global Physics Summit in Anaheim, California.

DESI is supported by the DOE Office of Science and by the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science national user facility. Additional support for DESI is provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation; the Science and Technology 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 Humanities, Sciences, and Technologies of Mexico; the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain; and by the DESI member institutions.

The DESI collaboration is honored to be permitted to conduct scientific research on I’oligam Du’ag (Kitt Peak), a mountain with particular significance to the Tohono O’odham Nation.

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