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The Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure and Multi-tracer

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2022-07-14 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study the performance of the perturbative bias expansion when combined with the multi-tracer technique, and their impact on the extraction of cosmological parameters. We consider two populations of tracers of large-scale structure and perform a series of Markov chain Monte Carlo analysis for those two tracers separately. The constraints in ωcdm\omega_{\rm cdm} and hh using multi-tracer are less biased and approximately 60%60\% better than those obtained for a single tracer. The multi-tracer approach also provides stronger constraints on the bias expansion parameters, breaking degeneracies between them and with their error being typically half of the single-tracer case. Finally, we studied the impacts caused in parameter extraction when including a correlation between the stochastic field of distinct tracers. We also include a study with galaxies showing that multi-tracer still lead to substantial gains in the cosmological parameters.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2108.11363,
  title  = {The Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure and Multi-tracer},
  author = {Thiago Mergulhão and Henrique Rubira and Rodrigo Voivodic and L. Raul Abramo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.11363},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

32 pages, 14 figures. The new appendix includes galaxy analysis