Journal
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/09/007
Keywords
cosmological simulations; galaxy clustering; galaxy surveys; power spectrum
Funding
- Institute for Advanced Study through a Corning Glass Works Foundation grant
- NASA [NNX15AL17G]
- DOE [DE-FG02-12ER41854]
- NSF [PHY-1068380, PHY-1213563, PHY-1521097, AST-1409709]
- Division Of Physics
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1521097] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We study the local response to long wavelength fluctuations in cosmological N-body simulations, focusing on the matter and halo power spectra, halo abundance and nonlinear transformations of the density field. The long wavelength mode is implemented using an effective curved cosmology and a mapping of time and distances. The method provides an alternative, more direct, way to measure the isotropic halo biases. Limiting ourselves to the linear case, we find generally good agreement between the biases obtained from the curvature method and the traditional power spectrum method at the level of a few percent. We also study the response of halo counts to changes in the variance of the field and find that the slope of the relation between the responses to density and variance differs from the naive derivation assuming a universal mass function by approximately 8-20%. This has implications for measurements of the amplitude of local non-Gaussianity using scale dependent bias. We also analyze the halo power spectrum and halo-dark matter cross-spectrum response to long wavelength fluctuations and derive second order halo bias from it, as well as the super-sample variance contribution to the galaxy power spectrum covariance matrix.
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