{"id":119,"date":"2025-12-19T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/galaxyexplorer.org\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2026-01-22T02:59:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T06:59:25","slug":"desi-dr1-an-independent-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyexplorer.org\/blog\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"DESI DR1 &#8211; An Independent Study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This year, I&#8217;ve decided to take on the challenge of wrangling with Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument data again. This time, instead of the Early Data Release, which contains pruned and polished data, I&#8217;m using the full Data Release 1 which was released in April of 2025, just a month before I presented my EDR results at the National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main difference between the EDR and DR1 is the amount of data available, where I now have nearly 10 times as much data to work with. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I decided to continue researching baryon acoustic oscillations as I felt that there was a lot of knowledge to be gained, even though I spent a full year researching the topic last year. While my project did end up taking me to both NJSHS and VJAS, I know there&#8217;s still a lot of room for improvement, such as using less approximations with my mock datasets as well as implementing new methodologies to increase overall accuracy. I&#8217;ll try my best to keep updating my progress as I continue my work this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, I&#8217;ve decided to take on the challenge of wrangling with Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument data again. This time, instead of the Early Data Release, which contains pruned and polished data, I&#8217;m using the full Data Release 1 which was released in April of 2025, just a month before I presented my EDR results [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyexplorer.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyexplorer.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyexplorer.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyexplorer.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyexplorer.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyexplorer.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyexplorer.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyexplorer.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyexplorer.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyexplorer.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}