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Redshift space power spectrum beyond Einstein-de Sitter kernels

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2021-04-16 v2

Abstract

We develop a framework to compute the redshift space power spectrum (PS), with kernels beyond Einstein-de Sitter (EdS), that can be applied to a wide variety of generalized cosmologies. We build upon a formalism that was recently employed for standard cosmology in Chen, Vlah & White (2020), and utilize an expansion of the density-weighted velocity moment generating function that explicitly separates the magnitude of the kk-modes and their angle to the line-of-sight direction dependencies. We compute the PS for matter and biased tracers to 1-loop Perturbation Theory (PT) and show that the expansion has a correct infrared and ultraviolet behavior, free of unwanted divergences. We also add Effective Field Theory (EFT) counterterms, necessary to account for small-scale contributions to PT, and employ an IR-resummation prescription to properly model the smearing of the BAO due to large scale bulk flows within Standard-PT. To demonstrate the applicability of our formalism, we apply it on the Λ\LambdaCDM and the Hu-Sawicki f(R)f(R) models, and compare our numerical results against the ELEPHANT suite of NN-body simulations, finding very good agreement up to k=0.27Mpc1hk= 0.27\, \text{Mpc}^{-1} h at z=0.5z=0.5 for the first three non-vanishing Legendre multipoles of the PS. To our knowledge, the model presented in this work is the most accurate theoretical EFT-PT for modified gravity to date, being the only one that accounts for beyond linear local biasing in redshift-space. Hence, we argue our RSD modeling is a promising tool to construct theoretical templates in order to test deviations from Λ\LambdaCDM using real data obtained from the next stage of cosmological surveys such as DESI and LSST.

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@article{arxiv.2012.05077,
  title  = {Redshift space power spectrum beyond Einstein-de Sitter kernels},
  author = {Alejandro Aviles and Georgios Valogiannis and Mario A. Rodriguez-Meza and Jorge L. Cervantes-Cota and Baojiu Li and Rachel Bean},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.05077},
  year   = {2021}
}

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56 pages, 11 figures, version 2 with minor changes

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