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$\texttt{matryoshka}$: Halo Model Emulator for the Galaxy Power Spectrum

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2022-02-08 v2

Abstract

We present matryoshka\texttt{matryoshka}, a suite of neural network based emulators and accompanying Python package that have been developed with the goal of producing fast and accurate predictions of the nonlinear galaxy power spectrum. The suite of emulators consists of four linear component emulators, from which fast linear predictions of the power spectrum can be made, allowing all nonlinearities to be included in predictions from a nonlinear boost component emulator. The linear component emulators includes an emulator for the matter transfer function that produces predictions in 0.0004 s\sim 0.0004 \ \mathrm{s}, with an error of <0.08%<0.08\% (at 1σ1\sigma level) on scales 104 h Mpc1<k<101 h Mpc110^{-4} \ h \ \mathrm{Mpc}^{-1}<k<10^1 \ h \ \mathrm{Mpc}^{-1}. In this paper we demonstrate matryoshka\texttt{matryoshka} by training the nonlinear boost component emulator with analytic training data calculated with HALOFIT, that has been designed to replicate training data that would be generated using numerical simulations. Combining all the component emulator predictions we achieve an accuracy of <0.75%< 0.75\% (at 1σ1\sigma level) when predicting the real space nonlinear galaxy power spectrum on scales 0.0025 h Mpc1<k<1 h Mpc10.0025 \ h \ \mathrm{Mpc}^{-1}<k<1 \ h \ \mathrm{Mpc}^{-1}. We use matryoshka\texttt{matryoshka} to investigate the impact of the analysis setup on cosmological constraints by conducting several full shape analyses of the real space galaxy power spectrum. Specifically we investigate the impact of the minimum scale (or kmaxk_\mathrm{max}), finding an improvement of 1.8×\sim 1.8\times in the constraint on σ8\sigma_8 by pushing kmaxk_\mathrm{max} from kmax=0.25 h Mpc1k_\mathrm{max}=0.25 \ h \ \mathrm{Mpc}^{-1} to kmax=0.85 h Mpc1k_\mathrm{max}=0.85 \ h \ \mathrm{Mpc}^{-1}, highlighting the potential gains when using clustering emulators such as matryoshka\texttt{matryoshka} in cosmological analyses.

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@article{arxiv.2109.15236,
  title  = {$\texttt{matryoshka}$: Halo Model Emulator for the Galaxy Power Spectrum},
  author = {Jamie Donald-McCann and Florian Beutler and Kazuya Koyama and Minas Karamanis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.15236},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

18 pages, 15 figures, 3 tables, MNRAS accepted 23/01/22. Code available at https://github.com/JDonaldM/Matryoshka