Corentin Ravoux - CNRS/LPCA Clermont-Ferrand
Synergistic power of combined cosmological observables - 29 October 2025



ACCEL² simulation
with Bastien Carreres, Julian Bautista, Damiano Rosselli, Alex Kim and many others

Dark Energy

Recent DESI DR2 BAO + CMB + SNIa results: stronger hints for varying dark energy
DESI DR2 BAO 2025
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Dark Energy

Shankaranarayanan et al. 2022
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Cosmic web



Walther et al. 2021
Chabanier et al. 2019
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fσ8 parameter
Cosmic web velocities
Normalized matter overdensity
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fσ8 parameter
Cosmic web velocities
Normalized matter overdensity
Logarithmic growth rate of linear perturbations
8 Mpc/h
Amplitude of the matter perturbations in spheres of 8 Mpc/h comoving radius (matter power spectrum amplitude)
in GR
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Measuring fσ8
Peculiar velocities (PV)
Redshift Space Distortions (RSD)


Ravoux et al. 2022
He et al. 2018
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fσ8 constraints

from Julian Bautista
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fσ8 measurement with peculiar velocities
ACCEL² simulation
ACCEL² simulation

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Hubble diagram
Perfect standard candle in an expanding Universe
from Bastien Carreres
Standard candle = object with fixed luminosity
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Hubble diagram
Peculiar velocities
from Bastien Carreres
Perfect standard candle in an expanding Universe
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Hubble diagram
Noise sources (intrinsic scatter, local environment, instruments...)
from Bastien Carreres
Standardizable candle in an expanding Universe
Peculiar velocities
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Hubble diagram
from Bastien Carreres
High redshifts = dark energy constraints (w, or w0,wa)
Low redshifts + calibration of the candle luminosity = H0 constraints
Hubble residuals = fσ8 constraints
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Type Ia supernovae

Betoule et al. 2014
Light-curve stretch
SN color
Parameters common for all SN Ia
"Redder is fainter"
"Luminous fade slowly"
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Type Ia supernovae
Carreres et al. 2023

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Likelihood-based field-level inference
ACCEL² simulation
ACCEL² simulation

Carreres et al. 2023
Ravoux et al. 2025
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Likelihood-based field-level estimator
Velocity from SNe Ia
Field covariance matrix computed from theory and coordinates
Parameters
Velocity example:
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Computing the field covariance


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Combining densities (RSD) and peculiar velocities
Velocities
Density field from galaxy surveys
Full field covariance matrix

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General covariance calculation
gg, gv, vv
Parameters to fit
Terms to integrate analytically
Power spectra terms to integrate numerically
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flip Field Level Inference Package
https://github.com/corentinravoux/flip

Contributors: Bastien Carreres, Damiano Rosselli and Alex G. Kim
Flip article: arxiv:2501.16852
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Field covariance models

Ravoux et al. 2025
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Combining DESI galaxy density and ZTF SNIa velocities on simulation
ACCEL² simulation
ACCEL² simulation

Ravoux et al. in prep
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ACCEL² simulation
Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF)


Dedicated spectroscopic telescope measuring transient spectra (SEDmachine)
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SN Ia simulation and analysis
SN Ia simulator
Survey parameters
SN Ia model
N-body host simulation
Realistic SN Ia light curves
Quality cuts
(Detection, spec-z selection, light curve quality...)
Light curve fit (SALT2)

Velocity estimation and simultaneous fit of fσ8 and velocity parameters
Simulation
Analysis
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snsim
https://github.com/bastiencarreres/snsim
Flux
Phase
Phase
Phase
Carreres et al. 2023
Main contributors: Bastien Carreres, Damiano Rosselli
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DESI



DESI collaboration 2022
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DESI


Silber et al. 2022
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DESI

63 million redshifts in 8 years
over 17,000 deg²
Primary science: BAO and RSD measurements
21
12
24
5
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DESI x ZTF simulation

from Julian Bautista
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Galaxy field
Supernovae velocities



Ravoux et al. in prep.
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Model for density & velocity fit

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ZTF velocity fit

Ravoux et al. in prep.

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DESI density fit
Ravoux et al. in prep.



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DESI x ZTF joint fit
Adding density improves fs8 constraints up to 60%
Different density configurations
Ravoux et al. in prep.


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Summary of PV estimations on realistic simulations

ZTF + DESI
(this talk)
ZTF (Carreres et al. 2023)
LSST (Rosselli et al. 2025)
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ACCEL² simulation



A word on wide-angle in clustering



Plane parallel models
Wide angle models



Plane parallel model
Parameters to fit
Terms to integrate analytically
Power spectra terms to integrate numerically
Plane parallel model
Plane parallel model
Linear sum of matrix with parameters to fit as coefficients
Plane parallel model
Hankel transform
Plane parallel model
Terms pre-computed analytically with symbolic code generaltion
Wide angle model
linear sum of matrix





flip validations


Disagreement due to different power spectrum model
Ravoux et al. 2025
Ravoux et al. 2025
Survey dependent Fisher forecast

Howlett et al. 2017
Ravoux et al. 2025
Rubin - LSST

Telescope mount assembly

AuxTel: 1.2m atmospheric telescop
Rubin - LSST: instrument



ZTF results
Carreres et al. 2023
Carreres et al. 2023
ZTF results

Carreres et al. 2023
Carreres et al. 2023
LSST simulations

Rosselli et al. 2025
LSST simulations


Rosselli et al. 2025
LSST simulations

Rosselli et al. 2025
LSST results


Carreres et al. 2025
LSST results

Rosselli et al. 2025