Preliminary Target Selection for the DESI Emission Line Galaxy (ELG) Sample.

DESI will precisely constrain cosmic expansion and the growth of structure by collecting $\sim$35 million redshifts across $\sim$80% of cosmic history and one third of the sky to study Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) and Redshift Space Distortions (RSD). We present a preliminary target selection for an Emission Line Galaxy (ELG) sample, which will comprise about half of all DESI tracers. The selection consists of a $g$-band magnitude cut and a $(g-r)$ vs. $(r-z)$ color box, which we validate using HSC/PDR2 photometric redshifts and DEEP2 spectroscopy. The ELG target density should be $\sim$2400 deg$^{-2}$, with $\sim$65% of ELG redshifts reliably within a redshift range of $0.6

Keywords:

• Galaxy
• COSMIC cancer database
• Photometry (optics)
• Baryon acoustic oscillations
• Astrophysics
• Emission spectrum
• Redshift
• Redshift-space distortions
• Sky
• Physics

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