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The Bacco Simulation Project: Bacco Hybrid Lagrangian Bias Expansion Model in Redshift Space

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2023-03-29 v3

Abstract

We present an emulator that accurately predicts the power spectrum of galaxies in redshift space as a function of cosmological parameters. Our emulator is based on a 2nd-order Lagrangian bias expansion that is displaced to Eulerian space using cosmological NN-body simulations. Redshift space distortions are then imprinted using the non-linear velocity field of simulated particles and haloes. We build the emulator using a forward neural network trained with the simulations of the BACCO project, which covers an 8-dimensional parameter space including massive neutrinos and dynamical dark energy. We show that our emulator provides unbiased cosmological constraints from the monopole, quadrupole, and hexadecapole of a mock galaxy catalogue that mimics the BOSS-CMASS sample down to nonlinear scales (k0.6k\sim0.6[h/h/Mpc]3^{3}). This work opens up the possibility of robustly extracting cosmological information from small scales using observations of the large-scale structure of the Universe.

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@article{arxiv.2207.06437,
  title  = {The Bacco Simulation Project: Bacco Hybrid Lagrangian Bias Expansion Model in Redshift Space},
  author = {Marcos Pellejero-Ibanez and Raul E. Angulo and Matteo Zennaro and Jens Stuecker and Sergio Contreras and Giovanni Arico and Francisco Maion},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.06437},
  year   = {2023}
}

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16 pages, 9 figures