H. Zhang, Marco Bonici, A. Rocher, Will J. Percival, Arnaud de Mattia, J. Aguilar, S. P. Ahlen, Otávio Alves, Alejandro Avilés, Antón Baleato Lizancos, D. Bianchi, David J. Brooks, Andrei Cuceu, Axel de la Macorra, P. Doel, Simone Ferraro, N. Findlay, Andreu Font-Ribera, D. Forero-Sánchez, J. E. Forero-Romero, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, G. Gutiérrez, ChangHoon Hahn, Cullan Howlett, Mustapha Ishak, Minas Karamanis, R. Kehoe, D. Kirkby, Anthony Kremin, O. Lahav, Yan Lai, Martin Landriau, L. Le Guillou, M. E. Levi, Marc Manera, M Maus, Aaron Meisner, Ramon Miquel, James Morawetz, John Moustakas, S. Nadathur, Jeffrey A. Newman, Gustavo Niz, H. E. Noriega, N. Palanque‐Delabrouille, Mathilde Pinon, Francisco Prada, Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols, Graziano Rossi, Shun Saito, Lado Samushia, E. Sánchez, David J. Schlegel, M. Schubnell, Hee‐Jong Seo, David Sprayberry, G. Tarlé, Benjamin Alan Weaver, Ruiyang Zhao, Rongpu Zhou
Abstract We present an analysis of DESI Data Release 1 (DR1) that incorporates Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD)-informed priors into Full-Shape (FS) modeling of the power spectrum based on cosmological perturbation theory (PT). By leveraging physical insights from the galaxy-halo connection, these HOD-informed priors on nuisance parameters substantially mitigate projection effects in extended cosmological models that allow for dynamical dark energy. The resulting credible intervals now encompass the posterior maximum from the baseline analysis using gaussian priors, eliminating a significant posterior shift observed in baseline studies. In the ΛCDM framework, a combined DESI DR1 FS information and constraints from the DESI DR1 baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) — including Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) constraints and a weak prior on the scalar spectral index — yields Ω m = 0.2994 ± 0.0090 and σ 8 = 0.836 +0.024 -0.027 , representing improvements of approximately 4% and 23% over the baseline analysis, respectively. For the w 0 w a CDM model, our results from various data combinations are highly consistent, with all configurations converging to a region with w 0 > -1 and w a < 0. This convergence not only suggests intriguing hints of dynamical dark energy but also underscores the robustness of our HOD-informed prior approach in delivering reliable cosmological constraints.