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Gan Gu

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Efficient estimators for power spectrum and bispectrum multipole measurements

Large galaxy surveys demand fast and scalable estimators for anisotropic clustering statistics beyond the monopole. We present a suite of efficient FFT-based estimators for power-spectrum and bispectrum multipoles, built upon exact conjugation and parity symmetries of spherical-harmonic--weighted Fourier transforms of real fields. These symmetries eliminate redundant magnetic sub-configurations, thereby reducing the computational cost by a factor of 2. For the Yamamoto power-spectrum multipoles, we further decrease the cost of high-order even multipoles by algebraically expressing ${L}_{2n}$ in terms of lower-order Legendre polynomials, thereby measuring modified high-order multipoles using only low-$\ell$ fields with a small and controlled deviation from the traditional definition. We introduce a new TripoSH bispectrum estimator obtained by compressing the Scoccimarro bispectrum along an alternative triangle side, which substantially reduces the FFT scaling for commonly used quadrupole configurations in the large-$k$-bin limit. We also derive an analytic treatment of bispectrum shot noise by integrating spherical-harmonic kernels over the triangle-constrained $k$-space volumes, avoiding additional FFTs or costly spherical-Bessel evaluations and enabling fast and accurate shot-noise subtraction. Based on these optimizations, we also introduce CosmoNPC, an open-source Python package for large-scale-structure clustering measurements.

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Nonlinear Information from DESI Luminous Red Galaxies: An Emulator-Based Analysis of Pre- and Post-Reconstruction Power Spectra

We present joint measurements of the pre- and post-reconstruction power spectra, $P_{\rm pre}$ and $P_{\rm post}$, together with their cross-power spectrum, $P_{\rm cross}$, for the Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) in the DESI Data Release 1 (DR1). We jointly analyse these observables with an emulator-based full-shape modeling framework, thereby, for the first time, we extract complementary nonlinear information from the galaxy density field before and after reconstruction in real survey data. Specifically, including $P_{\rm post}$ and $P_{\rm cross}$ in addition to $P_{\rm pre}$ (hereafter $P_{\rm all}$) yields an improvement of approximately $18$-$27\%$ in the $\sigma_8$ constraint in both $\Lambda$CDM and $w$CDM, depending on the redshift bin, relative to the $P_{\rm pre}$-only analysis with the cosmic microwave background distance priors (hereafter CMB). In $w$CDM, the joint CMB+$P_{\rm all}$ analysis can tighten the constraints on $w$ by approximately $5$-$15\%$ across the two LRG redshift bins, compared to the CMB+$P_{\rm pre}$ combination. Further incorporating the Type Ia supernova dataset and comparing the cosmological constraints in $w$CDM from each individual power-spectrum component with those from the full combination, we find that $P_{\rm all}$ consistently provides the tightest constraints. From the joint CMB+$P_{\rm all}$+DES-Dovekie dataset, we obtain $\Omega_m = 0.314 \pm 0.0048$ and $w = -0.988 \pm 0.023$ for the \texttt{LRG1} sample, and $\Omega_m = 0.318 \pm 0.0046$ and $w = -0.988 \pm 0.025$ for \texttt{LRG2}. These results demonstrate that combining pre- and post-reconstruction power spectra with their cross-correlation enables DESI to harvest additional nonlinear information, leading to tighter constraints on cosmological parameters.

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Dynamical Dark Energy in light of the DESI DR2 Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations Measurements

Understanding whether cosmic acceleration arises from a cosmological constant or a dynamical component is a central goal of cosmology, and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) enables stringent tests with high-precision distance measurements. We analyze baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements from DESI Data Release 1 (DR1) and Data Release 2 (DR2), combined with Type Ia supernovae and a cosmic microwave background (CMB) distance prior. With the larger statistical power and wider redshift coverage of DR2, the preference for dynamical dark energy does not diminish relative to DR1. Using both a shape-function reconstruction and non-parametric approaches with a Horndeski-motivated correlation prior, we find that the dark-energy equation of state $w(z)$ varies with redshift. BAO data alone yield modest constraints, but in combination with independent supernova compilations and the CMB prior they strengthen the evidence for dynamics. Bayesian model comparison shows moderate support for departures from $\Lambda$CDM when multiple degrees of freedom in $w(z)$ are allowed, corresponding to $\approx3\sigma$ tension with $\Lambda$CDM (and higher for some data sets). Despite methodological differences, our results are consistent with companion DESI papers, underscoring the complementarity of approaches. Possible systematics remain under study; forthcoming DESI, \emph{Euclid}, and next-generation CMB data will provide decisive tests.

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Dynamical dark energy in light of cosmic distance measurements I: a demonstration using simulated datasets

We develop methods to extract key dark energy information from cosmic distance measurements including the BAO scales and supernovae luminosity distances. Demonstrated using simulated datasets of the complete DESI, LSST and Roman surveys designed for BAO and SNe distance measurements, we show that using our method, the dynamical behaviour of the energy, pressure, equation of state (with its time derivative) of dark energy and the cosmic deceleration function can all be accurately recovered from high-quality data, which allows for robust diagnostic tests for dark energy models.

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Non-parametric dark energy reconstruction using the tomographic Alcock-Paczynski test

The tomographic Alcock-Paczynski (AP) method can result in tight cosmological constraints by using small and intermediate clustering scales of the large scale structure (LSS) of the galaxy distribution. By focusing on the redshift dependence, the AP distortion can be distinguished from the distortions produced by the redshift space distortions (RSD). In this work, we combine the tomographic AP method with other recent observational datasets of SNIa+BAO+CMB+$H_0$ to reconstruct the dark energy equation-of-state $w$ in a non-parametric form. The result favors a dynamical DE at $z\lesssim1$, and shows a mild deviation ($\lesssim2σ$) from $w=-1$ at $z=0.5-0.7$. We find the addition of the AP method improves the low redshift ($z\lesssim0.7$) constraint by $\sim50\%$.

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