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Cosmological Constraints from Bias-Robust Wavelet Scattering Statistics for Stage-IV Galaxy Surveys

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2026-05-27 v1

Abstract

A central challenge in precision cosmology with galaxy surveys is to extract non-Gaussian information from large-scale structure while controlling systematic uncertainties such as tracer bias. Conventional clustering statistics, such as the two-point correlation function (2PCF), capture limited nonlinear information and typically require explicit bias modeling, which can introduce systematic errors if the adopted bias prescription is inaccurate. To address this problem, we introduce RwstR^{\rm wst}, a bias-robust statistic constructed from mm-mode ratios of the wavelet scattering transform (WST). Using simulation-based inference, we train a Gaussian-process-regression emulator on the \texttt{Kun} simulation suite and use \texttt{JiuTian} simulations for covariance estimation and validation. The emulator achieves percent-level accuracy, sufficient for the expected observational uncertainties. We show that RwstR^{\rm wst} yields unbiased constraints on Ωm\Omega_m, σ8\sigma_8, nsn_s, and w0w_0, and improves the breaking of the Ωm\Omega_m--σ8\sigma_8 degeneracy by about a factor of two compared with 2PCF. Its constraining power remains stable across a broad range of tracer-bias scenarios, demonstrating that RwstR^{\rm wst} can mitigate bias-induced systematics without explicit bias modeling. These results establish RwstR^{\rm wst} as a powerful and robust statistic for precision cosmology with Stage-IV surveys.

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@article{arxiv.2605.27087,
  title  = {Cosmological Constraints from Bias-Robust Wavelet Scattering Statistics for Stage-IV Galaxy Surveys},
  author = {Zhujun Jiang and Xu Xiao and Fenfen Yin and Xiao-Dong Li and Le Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.27087},
  year   = {2026}
}

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15 pages, 7 figures