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Can a multi-tracer approach improve the constraints on the turnover scale at low redshift?

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2025-08-12 v2

Abstract

The turnover scale of the power spectrum is related to the size of the particle horizon at the matter-radiation equality, which can be used as a standard ruler to constrain cosmological parameters. In this work, we apply a model-independent method to mock datasets to forecast constraints on the turnover scale below a redshift of 0.5, investigating for the first time with a multi-tracer approach. We find that combining the galaxy density with peculiar velocity does not improve the turnover scale constraints for current or currently planned surveys because either the cosmological volume or the effective number density of peculiar velocities is too low. However, we demonstrate that when combining the galaxy power spectrum from 4HS with the HI power spectrum from SKA1-B2, the constraints on the turnover scale improve by 30%\sim30\% compared to using only a single tracer. We demonstrate for the first time that combining DESI, 4HS, and an SKA Phase 1 Band 2 survey could achieve a 5%\sim5\% level constraint on the turnover scale and a 90%\sim90\% probability of detecting the turnover below a redshift of 0.5. Lastly, we also demonstrate that combining the DESI BGS redshift sample with the LRG, ELG, and QSO samples could break the degeneracy between rHr_H and Ωm\Omega_m and improve their constraints by 25%\sim25\% and 45%\sim45\%, respectively, compared to only using the high redshift samples. The constraints on the particle horizon at the matter-radiation equality rHr_H and the matter density Ωm\Omega_m could then further improve by 20%\sim20\% and 30%\sim30\%, respectively, when combining the full set of DESI redshift tracers with 4HS and SKA1-B2.

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@article{arxiv.2507.11823,
  title  = {Can a multi-tracer approach improve the constraints on the turnover scale at low redshift?},
  author = {Yan Lai and Cullan Howlett and Tamara Davis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.11823},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

37 pages, 12 figures, and 8 tables. Revised version. Comments are welcome