bigbounce/spin-torsion cosmology research program
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DESI DR1

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument first data release. Our flagship anomaly catalog — the first full-DR1-scale autoencoder search (~90x prior EDR work).

QC PASS
22.5M spectra
195,829 anomalies (0.87%)
Optical spectroscopy (3600-9800 Å)
Readiness
QC PASS
DESI

Gold standard. 2,145 SNR-filtered, 1,127 uncataloged, 10 taxonomy families.

Cost~$200
Runtime~24h
Sources22.5M spectra
Anomalies195,829
Rate0.87%
BandOptical
Key Findings
Results that define how this survey should be used in the paper set.
  • 01195,829 anomalies from 22.5M spectra (0.87%)
  • 022,145 pass SNR filter, 120 gold (>)
  • 031,127 not in SIMBAD or NED (52.5% uncataloged)
  • 0410 taxonomy families: 76 AGN, 27 post-starburst, 363 blue compact
  • 0516 NEOWISE IR-variable anomalies incl. z=5.65 QSO
  • 06Central 9.4% multi-tracer fNL forecast (consistent with no improvement at <)
  • 07Injection/recovery: 0% false positive, 10–1,377x enrichment
Pipeline
ModelBigAE autoencoder (660K params, 128-dim latent)
WavelengthOptical spectroscopy (3600-9800 Å)
Cost~$200
Runtime~24h
Top Anomalies
RankRADecScoreType
#1213.3deg37.3deg3.01QSO (z=1.68)
#269.8deg0.3deg4.44Galaxy (z=0.96)
#3294.0deg66.0deg5.35Galaxy (z=0.98)