An improved fitting formula for the dark matter bispectrum
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
2012-03-08 v2
Abstract
In this paper we present an improved fitting formula for the dark matter bispectrum motivated by the previous phenomenological approach of Scoccimarro & Couchman (2001). We use a set of LCDM simulations to calibrate the fitting parameters in the k-range of 0.03 h/Mpc<k<0.4 h/Mpc and in the redshift range of 0<z<1.5. This new proposed fit describes well the BAO-features although it was not designed to. The deviation between the simulations output and our analytic prediction is typically less than 5% and in the worst case is never above 10%. We envision that this new analytic fitting formula will be very useful in providing reliable predictions for the non-linear dark matter bispectrum for LCDM models.
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@article{arxiv.1111.4477,
title = {An improved fitting formula for the dark matter bispectrum},
author = {Héctor Gil-Marín and Christian Wagner and Frantzeska Fragkoudi and Raul Jimenez and Licia Verde},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.4477},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
16 pages, 5 figures. Published in JCAP