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Convolution Lagrangian perturbation theory for biased tracers beyond general relativity

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2019-03-29 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We compare analytic predictions for real and Fourier space two-point statistics for biased tracers from a variety of Lagrangian Perturbation Theory approaches against those from state of the art N-body simulations in f(R)f(R) Hu-Sawicki and the nDGP braneworld modified gravity theories. We show that the novel physics of gravitational collapse in scalar tensor theories with the chameleon or the Vainshtein screening mechanism can be effectively factored in with bias parameters analytically predicted using the Peak-Background Split formalism when updated to include the environmental sensitivity of modified gravity theories as well as changes to the halo mass function. We demonstrate that Convolution Lagrangian Perturbation Theory (CLPT) and Standard Perturbation Theory (SPT) approaches provide accurate analytic methods to predict the correlation function and power spectra, respectively, for biased tracers in modified gravity models and are able to characterize both the BAO, power-law and small scale regimes needed for upcoming galaxy surveys such as DESI, Euclid, LSST and WFIRST.

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@article{arxiv.1901.03763,
  title  = {Convolution Lagrangian perturbation theory for biased tracers beyond general relativity},
  author = {Georgios Valogiannis and Rachel Bean},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.03763},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

29 pages, 11 figures. Updated to match published version in PRD. Codes for the calculation of the MG growth factors and LPT 2-point statistics can be found at https://github.com/CornellCosmology/bias_MG_LPT_products

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