First spectrotomographic weak lensing measurements on A1767 and A2065 with HSC data yield shear signals consistent with dynamical masses.
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The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC) will use five cosmological probes: galaxy clusters, large scale structure, supernovae, strong lensing, and weak lensing. This Science Requirements Document (SRD) quantifies the expected dark energy constraining power of these probes individually and together, with conservative assumptions about analysis methodology and follow-up observational resources based on our current understanding and the expected evolution within the field in the coming years. We then define requirements on analysis pipelines that will enable us to achieve our goal of carrying out a dark energy analysis consistent with the Dark Energy Task Force definition of a Stage IV dark energy experiment. This is achieved through a forecasting process that incorporates the flowdown to detailed requirements on multiple sources of systematic uncertainty. Future versions of this document will include evolution in our software capabilities and analysis plans along with updates to the LSST survey strategy.
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Filter-substrate refraction causes dominant lateral shifts yielding 0.3-0.4% PSF size and ellipticity residuals across most Roman bands that exceed weak lensing requirements by an order of magnitude, while longitudinal defocus shifts remain negligible.
Inverting Fisher biases enables quick checks on whether specific systematics explain cosmological tensions.
Assuming τ=0.11±0.006 yields a 2σ positive neutrino mass detection (Σmν=0.10^{+0.04}_{-0.05} eV) and removes CMB-DESI tensions within ΛCDM.
A generalized Chaplygin-type solid unifies dark matter and dark energy via an early pressureless phase transitioning to a late solid phase that supports acceleration and produces distinct low-redshift perturbation signatures.
GalSBI extended with optimal transport subhalo matching and SBI to forward-model galaxy population plus clustering, validated against DES Y3 and HSC data with public code release.
Field-level inference from weak lensing maps yields significantly tighter cosmological constraints than power-spectrum analysis when using the same forward-modeling pipeline, especially on small scales.
Rest-frame optical galaxy SEDs from a 16-parameter SPS model are captured by five disentangled VAE latents (mass, young stars, dust, soft/hard ionization); metallicity and age are not independent drivers.
An interacting sterile neutrino component via pseudoscalar mediator reconciles CMB and DESI DR2 BAO measurements with 2.7 sigma preference and reduces H0 tension to 2.4 sigma.
FRB dispersion measures directly constrain suppression of the matter power spectrum due to feedback at k ~ 0.1-3 h/Mpc, reduce posterior variance by a factor of ~8 at k~1 h/Mpc, and exclude extreme large-scale feedback scenarios at ~2 sigma.
An emulator trained on modified-gravity simulations enables MCMC forecasts showing that LSST plus CMB lensing constrains the lensing combination Sigma(z)=mu(1+eta)/2 much better than mu or eta alone, especially at z>2.
COLA-based hybrid emulator reproduces nonlinear power spectrum boosts in w0wa models to <2% error vs EuclidEmulator2 and produces <0.3σ shifts in LSST-like cosmic shear parameter constraints.
The parity-odd intrinsic alignment power spectrum probes the collapsed limit of the parity-odd primordial trispectrum and can tighten constraints on parity-violating PNG when bias parameters are calibrated from N-body simulations.
Fixing the covariance at an incorrect cosmology in cluster count analyses leaves Ω_c, σ_8, and w estimates unbiased but distorts their uncertainties, driven by S_8 amplitude effects; a single update at the recovered best-fit cosmology restores correct normalization for LSST-like surveys.
Galaxy size-mass relations exhibit double power-law breaks at different pivot masses for quiescent versus bulge-dominated samples, coinciding with AGN activity scales.
A minimal bias model yields unbiased LambdaCDM constraints up to k_max=0.7 h/Mpc but biases neutrino mass estimates, while higher-order bias mimics baryonic suppression in LSST 3x2pt analyses using the new MGL pipeline.
Uniform discretization in scale factor and 2048^3 particle resolution allow reducing mass shells to ~50 and downsampling high-redshift particles with only 0.1-0.3 sigma impact on higher-order cosmic shear statistics under LSST-like conditions.
Calibration uncertainties during supernova light-curve fitting cause roughly 50% degradation in dark energy figure of merit for Stage IV surveys, dominating over 13% degradation from model training errors and showing near-degeneracy with cosmology.
A coordinated Rubin-DESI supernova survey could distinguish dynamical dark energy from Lambda CDM at over 5 sigma in one year using 2300 spectroscopically confirmed SNe Ia at low redshift.
Fisher forecasts show the weak lensing bispectrum reduces errors on CPL w0 and IDE coupling parameters but leaves f(R) scalaron constraints essentially unchanged after full marginalization over nuisance parameters.
IRMaGiC extends redMaGiC to z=1-2 using joint LSST optical and Roman infrared data, reducing photo-z scatter and bias for LRGs.
Edge discontinuities in coadds cause significant shear biases only in extreme cases such as two-input-image stacks or 25% PSF size jumps, and these cases can be flagged and removed with a simple PSF variation statistic.
Pantheon+ releases 1701 light curves from 1550 spectroscopically confirmed Type Ia supernovae across 18 surveys for cosmological inference.
Cosmological data can constrain only a handful of EFT parameters for single-scalar dark energy; extended models show modest preference over Λ but remain underdetermined and challenged by fifth forces and screening.
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Recoupled Dark Radiation reconciling CMB and DESI BAO measurements
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Cosmological gravity on all scales V: MCMC forecasts combining large scale structure and CMB lensing for binned phenomenological modified gravity
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Parity Violation in Galaxy Shapes: Primordial Non-Gaussianity
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Cosmology-dependent covariance in galaxy cluster number counts: consequences for parameter inference
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Balancing bias, baryons, and scale cuts in LSST 3x2pt analysis
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Optimization of Weak Lensing Lightcone Simulations for Higher-Order Statistics in the LSST era
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Testing $\Lambda$CDM versus dynamical dark energy in one year: A DESI spectroscopic follow-up program for Rubin supernovae
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Exploring Beyond {\Lambda}CDM with the Weak Lensing Power Spectrum and Bispectrum
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