Cosmological inference from a joint DESI DR1 full-shape power spectrum and bispectrum analysis
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: The galaxy bispectrum directly probes the non-linear gravitational evolution of large-scale structure (LSS) and can break parameter degeneracies that remain in power-spectrum analyses. We present a joint full-shape cosmological analysis of three luminous red galaxy (LRG) redshift bins and the quasar (QSO) sample from the first Data Release (DR1) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). We model the redshift-space power spectrum at one loop and the tree-level bispectrum within the Effective Field Theory of LSS. The bispectrum is decomposed in the Tripolar Spherical Harmonics basis, for which the convolution with the survey window function can be formulated as a direct linear transformation of the theoretical multipoles. Our power-spectrum constraints are in good agreement with the official DESI DR1 full-modelling results. We investigate the impact of including the bispectrum in the inference, finding that the monopole substantially improves the constraints on the cold dark matter density and amplitude of matter fluctuations by 9-18% and 8-20%, respectively, in the individual-tracer analyses. The corresponding reductions are 15% and 10% for the combined LRG sample, and 6% and 4% when all tracers are combined. In a restricted test using the first LRG bin, the bispectrum quadrupole changes the marginalised uncertainties by only a few percent. Extending the analysis to $w_0w_a$CDM substantially broadens the cosmological posteriors, while the bispectrum produces only a mild change in the allowed dark-energy parameter region, which remains sensitive to the adopted prior ranges. Our results demonstrate the potential of higher-order clustering statistics to improve cosmological constraints, while providing a framework for incorporating the bispectrum into full-shape analyses of current and future spectroscopic galaxy surveys.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Institutions: Royal Observatory, University of Edinburgh, University of Michigan, University of Hertfordshire, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, University of Sussex, Ohio University, University of Waterloo, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA Paris-Saclay - Etablissement de Saclay, Institut de Recherche sur les Lois Fondamentales de l'Univers
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funders: National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Durham University, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Office of Science, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Dirección General de Asuntos del Personal Académico, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Division of Astronomical Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Awards: G1044631029, G1079818582, G1143651532, G1286236842, G1468651527, G1813527838, DiRAC-2.5 - the pathway to DiRAC Phase 3, G1863003419, G2309215924, G2368581224, G2843074508, G3363198467, G419881185, G4251892262, G42916606, G4498713678, G4501827968, G498139845, G5385953647, DiRAC-2.5 DC - Operations 2017-2020, G6652958823, G6876926712, Management and Operations of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, G7354628648, DiRAC: Memory Intensive 2.5y, DiRAC: Memory Intensive 2.5x
OpenAlex ID: W7216341140