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Preliminary Target Selection for the DESI Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS)

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arxiv 2010.11283 v1 pith:JZZ7D4TW submitted 2020-10-21 astro-ph.GA

Preliminary Target Selection for the DESI Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS)

Omar Ruiz-Macias , Pauline Zarrouk , Shaun Cole , Peder Norberg , Carlton Baugh , David Brooks , Arjun Dey , Yutong Duan
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Sarah Eftekharzadeh Daniel J. Eisenstein Jaime E. Forero-Romero Enrique Gazta\~naga ChangHoon Hahn Robert Kehoe Martin Landriau Dustin Lang Michael E. Levi John Lucey Aaron M. Meisner John Moustakas Adam D. Myers Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille Claire Poppett Francisco Prada Anand Raichoor David J. Schlegel Michael Schubnell Gregory Tarl\'e David H. Weinberg M. J. Wilson Christophe Y\`eche
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The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will execute a nearly magnitude-limited survey of low redshift galaxies ($0.05 \leq z \leq 0.4$, median $z \approx 0.2$). Clustering analyses of this Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS) will yield the most precise measurements to date of baryon acoustic oscillations and redshift-space distortions at low redshift. DESI BGS will comprise two target classes: (i) BRIGHT ($r<19.5$~mag), and (ii) FAINT ($19.5<r<20$~mag). Here we present a summary of the star-galaxy separation, and different photometric and geometrical masks, used in BGS to reduce the number of spurious targets. The selection results in a total density of $\sim 800$ objects/deg$^2$ for the BRIGHT and $\sim 600$ objects/deg$^2$ for the FAINT selections.A full characterization of the BGS selection can be found in Ruiz-Macias et al. (2020).

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