Browsing by Autor "Arnaud de Mattia"

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Constraining the phase shift of relativistic species in DESI BAOs
(Oxford University Press, 2025) Abbé M Whitford; Cullan Howlett; M. Vargas-Magaña; S. Fromenteau; T. M. Davis; Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols; Arnaud de Mattia; S. P. Ahlen; D. Bianchi; David Brooks
ABSTRACT In the early Universe, neutrinos decouple quickly from the primordial plasma and propagate without further interactions. The impact of free-streaming neutrinos is to create a temporal shift in the gravitational potential that impacts the acoustic waves known as baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs), resulting in a non-linear spatial shift in the Fourier-space BAO signal. In this work, we make use of and extend upon an existing methodology to measure the phase shift amplitude $\beta _{\phi }$ and apply it to the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 1 (DR1) BAOs with an anisotropic BAO fitting pipeline. We validate the fitting methodology by testing the pipeline with two publicly available fitting codes applied to highly precise cubic box simulations and realistic simulations representative of the DESI DR1 data. We find further study towards the methods used in fitting the BAO signal will be necessary to ensure accurate constraints on $\beta _{\phi }$ in future DESI data releases. Using DESI DR1, we present individual measurements of the anisotropic BAO distortion parameters and the $\beta _{\phi }$ for the different tracers, and additionally a combined fit to $\beta _{\phi }$ resulting in $\beta _{\phi } = 2.7 \pm 1.7$. After including a prior on the distortion parameters from constraints using Planck we find $\beta _{\phi } = 2.7^{+0.60}_{-0.67}$ suggesting $\beta _{\phi } &gt; 0$ at 4.3$\sigma$ significance. This result may hint at a phase shift that is not purely sourced from the standard model expectation for $N_{\rm {eff}}$ or could be a upwards statistical fluctuation in the measured $\beta _{\phi }$; this result relaxes in models with additional freedom beyond Lambda-cold dark matter.
DESI 2024: Constraints on physics-focused aspects of dark energy using DESI DR1 BAO data
(American Physical Society, 2025) K. Lodha; A. Shafieloo; R. Calderón; E. Linder; Wuhyun Sohn; Jorge L. Cervantes–Cota; Arnaud de Mattia; J. García-Bellido; M Ishak; William L. Matthewson
Baryon acoustic oscillation data from the first year of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) provide near percent-level precision of cosmic distances in seven bins over the redshift range $z=0.1--4.2$. This paper is the follow-up to the original DESI BAO cosmology paper [A. G. Adame et al. (DESI Collaboration), arXiv:2404.03002], which considered the conventional ${w}_{0}{w}_{a}$ cold dark matter (CDM) model. We use the novel DESI data, together with other cosmic probes, to constrain the background expansion history using some well-motivated physical classes of dark energy. In particular, we explore three physics-focused behaviors of dark energy from the equation of state and energy density perspectives: the thawing class (matching many simple quintessence potentials), emergent class (where dark energy comes into being recently, as in phase transition models), and mirage class [where phenomenologically the distance to cosmic microwave background (CMB) last scattering is close to that from a cosmological constant $\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Lambda}}$ despite dark energy dynamics]. All three classes fit the data at least as well as $\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Lambda}}\mathrm{CDM}$, and indeed can improve on it by $\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Delta}}{\ensuremath{\chi}}^{2}\ensuremath{\approx}\ensuremath{-}5$ to $\ensuremath{-}17$ for the combination of DESI BAO with CMB and supernova data while having one more parameter. The mirage class does essentially as well as ${w}_{0}{w}_{a}\mathrm{CDM}$ and exhibits moderate to strong Bayesian evidence preference with respect to $\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Lambda}}\mathrm{CDM}$. These classes of dynamical behaviors highlight worthwhile avenues for further exploration into the nature of dark energy.
Early time solution as an alternative to the late time evolving dark energy with DESI DR2 BAO
(American Physical Society, 2025) E. Chaussidon; Martin White; Arnaud de Mattia; Rafaela Gsponer; S. P. Ahlen; Davide Bianchi; D. Brooks; T. Claybaugh; S. Cole; A. Cuceu
Supplementary material to DESI's publication 'Early time solution as an alternative to the late time evolving dark energy with DESI DR2 BAO' to comply with the data management plan.