arXiv · 2105.12114
On the road to percent accuracy V: the non-linear power spectrum beyond $Λ$CDM with massive neutrinos and baryonic feedback
Abstract
In the context of forthcoming galaxy surveys, to ensure unbiased constraints on cosmology and gravity when using non-linear structure information, percent-level accuracy is required when modelling the power spectrum. This calls for frameworks that can accurately capture the relevant physical effects, while allowing for deviations from $Λ$CDM. Massive neutrino and baryonic physics are two of the most relevant such effects. We present an integration of the halo model reaction frameworks for massive neutrinos and beyond-$Λ$CDM cosmologies. The integrated halo model reaction, combined with a pseudo power spectrum modelled by HMCode2020 is then compared against $N$-body simulations that include both massive neutrinos and an $f(R)$ modification to gravity. We find that the framework is 4% accurate down to at least $k\approx 3 \, h/{\rm Mpc}$ for a modification to gravity of $|f_{\rm R0}|\leq 10^{-5}$ and for the total neutrino mass $M_ν\equiv \sum m_ν\leq 0.15$ eV. We also find that the framework is 4% consistent with EuclidEmulator2 as well as the Bacco emulator for \B{most of the considered} $νw$CDM cosmologies down to at least $k \approx 3 \, h$/Mpc. Finally, we compare against hydrodynamical simulations employing HMCode2020's baryonic feedback modelling on top of the halo model reaction. For $νΛ$CDM cosmologies we find 2% accuracy for $M_ν\leq 0.48$eV down to at least $k\approx 5h$/Mpc. Similar accuracy is found when comparing to $νw$CDM hydrodynamical simulations with $M_ν= 0.06$eV. This offers the first non-linear, theoretically general means of accurately including massive neutrinos for beyond-$Λ$CDM cosmologies, and further suggests that baryonic, massive neutrino and dark energy physics can be reliably modelled independently.
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Benjamin Bose, Bill S. Wright, Matteo Cataneo, Alkistis Pourtsidou, Carlo Giocoli, Lucas Lombriser, Ian G. McCarthy, Marco Baldi, Simon Pfeifer, Qianli Xia. 2021-09-25. On the road to percent accuracy V: the non-linear power spectrum beyond $Λ$CDM with massive neutrinos and baryonic feedback. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras%2Fstab2731
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