@article {2023arXiv230520016N, title = {Detecting and Characterizing Mg II absorption in DESI Survey Validation Quasar Spectra}, journal = {arXiv e-prints}, year = {2023}, pages = {arXiv:2305.20016}, keywords = {Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies}, doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2305.20016}, author = {Napolitano, Lucas and Pandey, Agnesh and Myers, Adam D. and Lan, Ting-Wen and Anand, Abhijeet and Aguilar, Jessica and Ahlen, Steven and Alexander, David M. and Brooks, David and Canning, Rebecca and Circosta, Chiara and de la Macorra, Axel and Doel, Peter and Eftekharzadeh, Sarah and Fawcett, Victoria A. and Font-Ribera, Andreu and Garcia-Bellido, Juan and Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A and Le Guillou, L. and Guy, Julien and Honscheid, Klaus and Juneau, Stephanie and Kisner, T. and Landriau, Martin and Meisner, Aaron M. and Miquel, Ramon and Moustakas, J. and Percival, Will J. and Prochaska, J. Xavier and Schubnell, Michael and Tarl{\'e}, Gregory and Weaver, B. A. and Weiner, Benjamin and Zhou, Zhimin and Zou, Hu and Zou, Siwei} }