- Prieto, Carlos Allende
- Cooper, Andrew P
- Dey, Arjun
- Gänsicke, Boris T
- Koposov, Sergey E
- Li, Ting
- Manser, Christopher
- Nidever, David L
- Rockosi, Constance
- Wang, Mei-Yu
- Aguado, David S
- Blum, Robert
- Brooks, David
- Eisenstein, Daniel J
- Duan, Yutong
- Eftekharzadeh, Sarah
- Gaztañaga, Enrique
- Kehoe, Robert
- Landriau, Martin
- Lee, Chien-Hsiu
- Levi, Michael E
- Meisner, Aaron M
- Myers, Adam D
- Najita, Joan
- Olsen, Knut
- Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie
- Poppett, Claire
- Prada, Francisco
- Schlegel, David J
- Schubnell, Michael
- Tarlé, Gregory
- Valluri, Monica
- Wechsler, Risa H
- Yèche, Christophe
- et al.
The DESI Milky Way Survey (MWS) will observe $\ge$8 million stars between $16
< r < 19$ mag, supplemented by observations of brighter targets under poor
observing conditions. The survey will permit an accurate determination of
stellar kinematics and population gradients; characterize diffuse substructure
in the thick disk and stellar halo; enable the discovery of extremely
metal-poor stars and other rare stellar types; and improve constraints on the
Galaxy's 3D dark matter distribution from halo star kinematics. MWS will also
enable a detailed characterization of the stellar populations within 100 pc of
the Sun, including a complete census of white dwarfs. The target catalog from
the preliminary selection described here is public.