$\nu\scriptstyle{\rm CO}N{\rm CEPT}$: Cosmological neutrino simulations from the non-linear Boltzmann hierarchy
Abstract
In this paper the non-linear effect of massive neutrinos on cosmological structures is studied in a conceptually new way. We have solved the non-linear continuity and Euler equations for the neutrinos on a grid in real space in -body simulations, and closed the Boltzmann hierarchy at the non-linear Euler equation using the stress and pressure perturbations from linear theory. By comparing with state-of-the art cosmological neutrino simulations, we are able to simulate the non-linear neutrino power spectrum very accurately. This translates into a negligible error in the matter power spectrum, and so our code is ideally suited for extracting the neutrino mass from future high precision non-linear observational probes such as Euclid.
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@article{arxiv.1712.03944,
title = {$\nu\scriptstyle{\rm CO}N{\rm CEPT}$: Cosmological neutrino simulations from the non-linear Boltzmann hierarchy},
author = {Jeppe Dakin and Jacob Brandbyge and Steen Hannestad and Troels Haugbølle and Thomas Tram},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.03944},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication in JCAP. 29 pages, 10 figures