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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 466, 期 1, 页码 780-797出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw3196
关键词
cosmology: theory; large scale structure of Universe
资金
- NASA [NNX15AL17G]
- U.S. Department of Energy [DEAC02-76SF00515]
- Fermi Research Alliance, LLC [De-AC02-07CH11359]
- United States Department of Energy
We evaluate the covariance matrix of the matter power spectrum using perturbation theory up to dominant terms at 1-loop order and compare it to numerical simulations. We decompose the covariance matrix into the disconnected (Gaussian) part, trispectrum from the modes outside the survey (supersample variance) and trispectrum from the modes inside the survey, and show how the different components contribute to the overall covariance matrix. We find the agreement with the simulations is at a 10 per cent level up to k similar to 1 h Mpc(-1). We show that all the connected components are dominated by the large-scale modes (k < 0.1 h Mpc(-1)), regardless of the value of the wave vectors k, k(1) of the covariance matrix, suggesting that one must be careful in applying the jackknife or bootstrap methods to the covariance matrix. We perform an eigenmode decomposition of the connected part of the covariance matrix, showing that at higher k, it is dominated by a single eigenmode. The full covariance matrix can be approximated as the disconnected part only, with the connected part being treated as an external nuisance parameter with a known scale dependence, and a known prior on its variance for a given survey volume. Finally, we provide a prescription for how to evaluate the covariance matrix from small box simulations without the need to simulate large volumes.
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