Preliminary Target Selection for the DESI Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) Sample

Author(s): Zhou, Rongpu; Newman, Jeffrey A; Dawson, Kyle S; Eisenstein, Daniel J; Brooks, David D; Dey, Arjun; Dey, Biprateep; Duan, Yutong; Eftekharzadeh, Sarah; Gaztanaga, Enrique; Kehoe, Robert; Landriau, Martin; Levi, Michael E; Licquia, Timothy C; Meisner, Aaron M; Moustakas, John; Myers, Adam D; Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie; Poppett, Claire; Prada, Francisco; Raichoor, Anand; Schlegel, David J; Schubnell, Michael; Staten, Ryan; Tarle, Gregory; Yeche, Christophe | Abstract: The DESI survey will observe more than 8 million candidate luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the redshift range $0.3