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Extending CSST Emulator to post-DESI era

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2025-10-13 v1

Abstract

The recent DESI BAO measurements have revealed a potential deviation from a cosmological constant, suggesting a dynamic nature of dark energy. To rigorously test this result, complementary probes such as weak gravitational lensing are crucial, demanding highly accurate and efficient predictions of the nonlinear matter power spectrum within the w0waw_0w_aCDM framework. However, most existing emulators fail to cover the full parameter posterior from DESI DR2+CMB constraints in the w0\mboxwaw_0\mbox{-}w_a plane. In this work, we extend the spectral equivalence method outlined in Casarini et al. 2016 to use auxiliary w0waw_0w_aCDM models for approximating the power spectrum of a target w0waw_0w_aCDM cosmology, moving beyond the previous use of wwCDM auxiliaries. Incorporating this enhanced module, the extended CSST Emulator achieves a prediction accuracy of 1%\leq1\% over the 1σ1\sigma confidence region from DESI DR2+CMB constraints for z3z\leq3, validated by additional dynamic dark energy simulations. The emulator's applicable parameter space has been generalized to fully encompass the 2σ2\sigma region, greatly enhancing its utility for cosmological analysis in the post-DESI era.

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@article{arxiv.2510.09503,
  title  = {Extending CSST Emulator to post-DESI era},
  author = {Zhao Chen and Yu Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.09503},
  year   = {2025}
}

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15 pages; 5 figures

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