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

DESI Collaboration, Amir Aghamousa, Aguilar, Jessica, Steve Ahlen, Shadab Alam, Allen, Lori E., Carlos Prieto, J. Annis, S. Bailey, Christophe Balland, O. Ballester, C. Baltay, L. Beaufore, C. Bebek, Timothy C. Beers, Eric F. Bell, José Luis Bernal, Robert Besuner, Florian Beutler, Chris Blake, Hannes Bleuler, Michael Blomqvist, Robert Blum, A. Bolton, César Briceño, David J. Brooks, Joel R. Brownstein, E. Buckley‐Geer, A. Burden, Etienne Burtin, Nicolás G. Busca, R. N. Cahn, Yan-Chuan Cai, L. Cardiel-Sas, Raymond G. Carlberg, Pierre-Henri Carton, R. Casas, F. J. Castander, Jorge L. Cervantes–Cota, T. Claybaugh, Madeline Close, Carl T. Coker, Shaun Cole, Johan Comparat, Andrew P. Cooper, M.-C. Cousinou, Martín Crocce, Jean-Gabriel Cuby, Daniel P. Cunningham, Tamara M. Davis, Kyle S. Dawson, Axel de La Macorra, Juan de Vicente, Timothée Delubac, Mark Derwent, Arjun Dey, Govinda Dhungana, Zhejie Ding, Peter Doel, Yutong T. Duan, Anne Ealet, Jerry Edelstein, Sarah Eftekharzadeh, Daniel Eisenstein, Ann Elliott, S. Escoffier, Matthew Evatt, Parker Fagrelius, Xiaohui Fan, Kevin Fanning, Arya Farahi, Jay Farihi, Ginevra Favole, Feng Yu, Enrique Fernandez, Joseph Findlay, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Michael J. Fitzpatrick, B. Flaugher, Samuel Flender, Andreu Font-Ribera, J. E. Forero-Romero, P. Fosalba, Carlos S. Frenk, Michele Fumagalli, Boris Gaensicke, Giuseppe Gallo, J. García-Bellido, E. Gaztañaga, N. P. Gentile Fusillo, Terry Gerard, Irena Gershkovich, Tommaso Giannantonio, Denis Gillet, Guillermo Gonzalez-De-Rivera, Violeta González-Pérez, Shelby Gott, Or Graur, Gaston Gutierrez, Julien Guy, Salman Habib, Henry Heetderks, Ian Heetderks, Katrin Heitmann, Wojciech A. Hellwing, David A. Herrera, Shirley Ho, S. Holland, Klaus Honscheid, Eric Huff, Timothy A. Hutchinson, Dragan Huterer, Ho Seong Hwang, Joseph Maria Illa Laguna, Yuzo Ishikawa, Dianna Jacobs, Niall Jeffrey, Patrick Jelinsky, Elise Jennings, Lin‐Hua Jiang, Jorge Jiménez, Jennifer L. Johnson, Richard Joyce, Eric Jullo, Stéphanie Juneau, Sami Kama, Armin Karcher, Sonia Karkar, Robert Kehoe, Noble Kennamer, Stephen J Kent, M. Kilbinger, Alex Kim, D. Kirkby, Theodore Kisner, Ellie Kitanidis, Jean‐Paul Kneib, S. E. Koposov, E. Kovacs, K. Koyama, Anthony Kremin, Richard G. Kron, Luzius Kronig, Andrea Kueter-Young, C. G. Lacey, Robin Lafever, Ofer Lahav, Andrew Lambert, M. Lampton, Martin Landriau, Dustin Lang, Tod R. Lauer, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Guillou, Laurent Le, Van Suu, Auguste Le, Jaehyeon Lee, Su-Jeong Lee, Daniela Leitner, Michael Lesser, M. E. Levi, Benjamin L’Huillier, Baojiu Li, Ming Liang, Huan Lin, Eric Linder, Sarah R. Loebman, Zarija Lukić, Jun Ma, N. MacCrann, Christophe Magneville, Laleh Makarem, Marc Manera, Christopher J. Manser, Robert Marshall, Paul Martini, R. Massey, T. Matheson, Jeremy McCauley, Patrick McDonald, Ian D. Mcgreer, Aaron Meisner, N. Metcalfe, Timothy N. Miller, Ramon Miquel, John Moustakas, Adam Myers, Milind Naik, Jeffrey A. Newman, Robert C. Nichol, Andrina Nicola, Luiz Nicolati da Costa, J. Nie, Gustavo Niz, P. Norberg, B. Nord, Dara Norman, P. Nugent, Thomas O'Brien, Minji Oh, Knut Olsen, C. Padilla Aranda, Hamsa Padmanabhan, Nikhil Padmanabhan, N. Palanque‐Delabrouille, A. Palmese, Daniel Pappalardo, Isabelle Paris, Changbom Park, Anna Patej, J. A. Peacock, Hiranya V. Peiris, Xiyan Peng, Will J. Percival, S. Perruchot, Matthew M. Pieri, Richard Pogge, Jennifer E. Pollack, Claire Poppett, Francisco Prada, Abhishek Prakash, R. G. Probst, D. Rabinowitz, Anand Raichoor, Chang H. Ree, Alexandre Réfrégier, Xavier Régal, Beth Reid, Kevin Reil, Mehdi Rezaie, Constance M. Rockosi, Natalie Roe, Samuel Ronayette, A. Roodman, Ashley J. Ross, Nicholas P. Ross, Graziano Rossi, Eduardo Rozo, V. Ruhlmann-Kleider, E. S. Rykoff, Cristiano G. Sabiu, Lado Samushia, E. Sánchez, Javier Sánchez, David J. Schlegel, Michael Schneider, M. Schubnell, A. Secroun, Uros Seljak, Hee‐Jong Seo, S. Serrano, Arman Shafieloo, Huanyuan Shan, R. M. Sharples, Michael J. Sholl, William Van Shourt, J. Silber, David R. Silva, Martin M. Sirk, Anže Slosar, A. G. Smith, George F. Smoot, Debopam Som, Yong-Seon Song, David Sprayberry, Ryan Staten, Andy Stefanik, G. Tarlé, Suk Sien Tie, Jeremy L. Tinker, Rita Tojeiro, Francisco Valdes, O. Valenzuela, Monica Valluri, M. Vargas-Magaña, Licia Verde, A. R. Walker, Jiali Wang, Yuting Wang, Benjamin A. Weaver, Curtis Weaverdyck, Risa H. Wechsler, David H. Weinberg, Martin White, Qian Yang, Christophe Yèche, Tianmeng Zhang, Gong‐Bo Zhao, Yi Zheng, Xu Zhou, Zhimin Zhou, Yaling Zhu, Hu Zou, Ying Zu

arXiv (Cornell University), 2016