Forecast Cosmological Constraints with the 1D Wavelet Scattering Transform and the Lyman-$α$ forest
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| author | Tohfa, Hurum Maksora Bird, Simeon Ho, Ming-Feng Qezlou, Mahdi Fernandez, Martin |
| author_facet | Tohfa, Hurum Maksora Bird, Simeon Ho, Ming-Feng Qezlou, Mahdi Fernandez, Martin |
| contents | We make forecasts for the constraining power of the 1D Wavelet Scattering Transform (WST) when used with a Lyman-$α$ forest cosmology survey. Using mock simulations and a Fisher matrix, we show that there is considerable cosmological information in the scattering transform coefficients not captured by the flux power spectrum. We estimate mock covariance matrices assuming uncorrelated Gaussian pixel noise for each quasar, at a level drawn from a simple lognormal model. The extra information comes from a smaller estimated covariance in the first-order wavelet power, and from second-order wavelet coefficients which probe non-Gaussian information in the forest. Forecast constraints on cosmological parameters from the WST are more than an order of magnitude tighter than for the power spectrum, shrinking a $4D$ parameter space by a factor of $10^6$. Should these improvements be realised with DESI, inflationary running would be constrained to test common inflationary models predicting $α_s = - 6\times 10^{-4}$ and neutrino mass constraints would be improved enough for a $5-σ$ detection of the minimal neutrino mass. |
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| spellingShingle | Forecast Cosmological Constraints with the 1D Wavelet Scattering Transform and the Lyman-$α$ forest Tohfa, Hurum Maksora Bird, Simeon Ho, Ming-Feng Qezlou, Mahdi Fernandez, Martin Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics We make forecasts for the constraining power of the 1D Wavelet Scattering Transform (WST) when used with a Lyman-$α$ forest cosmology survey. Using mock simulations and a Fisher matrix, we show that there is considerable cosmological information in the scattering transform coefficients not captured by the flux power spectrum. We estimate mock covariance matrices assuming uncorrelated Gaussian pixel noise for each quasar, at a level drawn from a simple lognormal model. The extra information comes from a smaller estimated covariance in the first-order wavelet power, and from second-order wavelet coefficients which probe non-Gaussian information in the forest. Forecast constraints on cosmological parameters from the WST are more than an order of magnitude tighter than for the power spectrum, shrinking a $4D$ parameter space by a factor of $10^6$. Should these improvements be realised with DESI, inflationary running would be constrained to test common inflationary models predicting $α_s = - 6\times 10^{-4}$ and neutrino mass constraints would be improved enough for a $5-σ$ detection of the minimal neutrino mass. |
| title | Forecast Cosmological Constraints with the 1D Wavelet Scattering Transform and the Lyman-$α$ forest |
| topic | Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06010 |