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A cosmological full-shape power spectra analysis using pre- and post-reconstructed density fields

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2025-04-22 v2

Abstract

In this work, we investigate a joint fitting approach based on theoretical models of power spectra associated with density-field reconstruction. Specifically, we consider the matter auto-power spectra before and after baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) reconstruction, as well as the cross-power spectrum between the pre- and post-reconstructed density fields. We present redshift-space models for these three power spectra at the one-loop level within the framework of standard perturbation theory (SPT), and perform a joint analysis using three types of power spectra, and quantify their impact on parameter constraints. When restricting the analysis to wavenumbers k0.2hMpc1k \leq 0.2\,h\,\mathrm{Mpc}^{-1} and adopting a smoothing scale of Rs=15h1MpcR_{\mathrm{s}} = 15\,h^{-1}\,\mathrm{Mpc}, we find that incorporating all three power spectra improves parameter constraints by approximately 11%16%11\%\text{--}16\% compared to using only the post-reconstruction power spectrum, with the Figure of Merit (FoM) increasing by 10.5%10.5\%. These results highlight the advantages of leveraging multiple power spectra in BAO reconstruction, ultimately enabling more precise cosmological parameter estimation.

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@article{arxiv.2503.20574,
  title  = {A cosmological full-shape power spectra analysis using pre- and post-reconstructed density fields},
  author = {Weibing Zhang and Ruiyang Zhao and Xiaoyong Mu and Kazuya Koyama and Ryuichi Takahashi and Yuting Wang and Gong-Bo Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.20574},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

11 + 4 pages; 3 + 3 figures; version accepted to RAA

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