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Cosmology before noon with multiple galaxy populations

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2024-12-25 v2

Abstract

Near-future facilities observing the high-redshift universe (2<z<52<z<5) will have an opportunity to take advantage of "multi-tracer" cosmology by observing multiple tracers of the matter density field: Lyman alpha emitters (LAE), Lyman break galaxies (LBG), and CMB lensing κ\kappa. In this work we use Fisher forecasts to investigate the effect of multi-tracers on next-generation facilities. In agreement with previous work, we show that multiple tracers improve constraints primarily from degeneracy breaking, instead of the traditional intuition of sample variance cancellation. Then, we forecast that for both BBN and CMB primary priors, the addition of lensing and LAEs onto a LBG-only sample will gain 25\% or more in many parameters, with the largest gains being factor of 10\sim10 improvement for fEDEf_{\rm EDE}. We include a preliminary approach towards modelling the impact of radiative transfer (RT) on forecasts involving LAEs by introducing a simplified model at linear theory level. Our results, albeit preliminary, show that the while RT influences LAE-only forecasts strongly, its effect on composite multi-tracer forecasts are limited.

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@article{arxiv.2401.13166,
  title  = {Cosmology before noon with multiple galaxy populations},
  author = {Haruki Ebina and Martin White},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.13166},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

41 pages, 18 figures; minor revisions to match version accepted by JCAP

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