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A comparison between Shapefit compression and Full-Modelling method with PyBird for DESI 2024 and beyond

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2026-02-04 v6

Abstract

DESI aims to provide one of the tightest constraints on cosmological parameters by analysing the clustering of more than thirty million galaxies. However, obtaining such constraints requires special care in validating the methodology and efforts to reduce the computational time required through data compression and emulation techniques. In this work, we perform a rigorous validation of the PyBird power spectrum modelling code with both a traditional emulated Full-Modelling approach and the model-independent ShapeFit compression approach. By using cubic box simulations that accurately reproduce the clustering and precision of the DESI survey, we find that the cosmological constraints from ShapeFit and Full-Modelling are consistent with each other at the 0.5σ\sim0.5\sigma level for the Λ\LambdaCDM model. Both ShapeFit and Full-Modelling are also consistent with the true Λ\LambdaCDM simulation cosmology down to a scale of kmax=0.20hMpc1k_{\mathrm{max}} = 0.20 h\mathrm{Mpc}^{-1} even after including the hexadecapole. For extended models such as the wCDM and the oCDM models, we find that including the hexadecapole can significantly improve the constraints and reduce the modelling errors with the same kmaxk_{\mathrm{max}}. While their discrepancies between the constraints from ShapeFit and Full-Modelling are more significant than Λ\LambdaCDM, they remain consistent within 0.7σ0.7\sigma. Lastly, we also show that the constraints on cosmological parameters with the correlation function evaluated from PyBird down to smin=30h1Mpcs_{\mathrm{min}} = 30 h^{-1} \mathrm{Mpc} are unbiased and consistent with the constraints from the power spectrum.

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@article{arxiv.2404.07283,
  title  = {A comparison between Shapefit compression and Full-Modelling method with PyBird for DESI 2024 and beyond},
  author = {Y. Lai and C. Howlett and M. Maus and H. Gil-Marín and H. E. Noriega and S. Ramírez-Solano and P. Zarrouk and J. Aguilar and S. Ahlen and O. Alves and A. Aviles and D. Brooks and S. Chen and T. Claybaugh and T. M. Davis and K. Dawson and A. de la Macorra and P. Doel and J. E. Forero-Romero and E. Gaztañaga and S. Gontcho A Gontcho and K. Honscheid and S. Juneau and M. Landriau and M. Manera and R. Miquel and E. Mueller and S. Nadathur and G. Niz and N. Palanque-Delabrouille and W. Percival and C. Poppett and M. Rezaie and G. Rossi and E. Sanchez and M. Schubnell and D. Sprayberry and G. Tarlé and M. Vargas-Magaña and L. Verde and S. Yuan and R. Zhou and H. Zou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.07283},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

Correction for mapping the PyBird bias parameters to the velocileptor bias parameters in Table 2 and Table 11. This correction does not change the result since the error is absorbed by other nuisance parameters

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