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The Backup Program of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument’s Milky Way Survey

  • Authors: Arjun Dey, Sergey E. Koposov, Joan R. Najita, Andrew P. Cooper, B. T. Gänsicke, Adam D. Myers, A. Raichoor, Daniel J. Eisenstein, E. F. Schlafly, D. Schlegel, C. Allende Prieto, Leandro Beraldo e Silva, Ting S. Li, M. Valluri, Stéphanie Juneau, Mika Lambert, S. Li, Guillaume F. Thomas, Wenting Wang, Alexander H. Riley, N. Kizhuprakkat, J. Aguilar, S. Ahlen, S. Bailey, D. Bianchi, D. Brooks, T. Claybaugh, A. Cuceu, A. de la Macorra, J. Della Costa, Biprateep Dey, P. Doel, A. Font-Ribera, J. E. Forero-Romero, E. Gaztañaga, S. Gontcho A Gontcho, G. Gutierrez, J. Guy, C. Hahn, K. Honscheid, M. Ishak, J. Jimenez, R. Kehoe, D. Kirkby, T. Kisner, A. Kremin, C. Lamman, M. Landriau, L. Le Guillou, M. E. Levi, M. Manera, P. Martini, A. Meisner, R. Miquel, J. Moustakas, S. Nadathur, N. Palanque-Delabrouille, W. J. Percival, I. Pérez-Ràfols, F. Prada, G. Rossi, E. Sanchez, M. Schubnell, J. Silber, D. Sprayberry, G. Tarlé, B. A. Weaver, R. H. Wechsler, R. Zhou, H. Zou

Arjun Dey et al 2026 The Astronomical Journal 171 .

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Caption: Figure 5.

Distribution of sky conditions for the exposures taken for the MWBP (blue) and the MWS (orange). The four panels (clockwise from top left) show the seeing FWHM, airmass, transparency, and r-band sky brightness.

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