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Abstract There is untapped cosmological information in galaxy redshift surveys in the nonlinear regime. In this work, we use theAemulussuite of cosmologicalN-body simulations to construct Gaussian process emulators of galaxy clustering statistics at small scales (0.1–50h−1Mpc) in order to constrain cosmological and galaxy bias parameters. In addition to standard statistics—the projected correlation functionwp(rp), the redshift-space monopole of the correlation functionξ0(s), and the quadrupoleξ2(s)—we emulate statistics that include information about the local environment, namely the underdensity probability functionPU(s) and the density-marked correlation functionM(s). This extends the model ofAemulusIII for redshift-space distortions by including new statistics sensitive to galaxy assembly bias. In recovery tests, we find that the beyond-standard statistics significantly increase the constraining power on cosmological parameters of interest: includingPU(s) andM(s) improves the precision of our constraints on Ωmby 27%,σ8by 19%, and the growth of structure parameter,fσ8, by 12% compared to standard statistics. We additionally find that scales below ∼6h−1Mpc contain as much information as larger scales. The density-sensitive statistics also contribute to constraining halo occupation distribution parameters and a flexible environment-dependent assembly bias model, which is important for extracting the small-scale cosmological information as well as understanding the galaxy–halo connection. This analysis demonstrates the potential of emulating beyond-standard clustering statistics at small scales to constrain the growth of structure as a test of cosmic acceleration.
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Galaxy Clustering in the Mira-Titan Universe. I. Emulators for the Redshift Space Galaxy Correlation Function and Galaxy–Galaxy Lensing
Abstract We construct accurate emulators for the projected and redshift space galaxy correlation functions and excess surface density as measured by galaxy–galaxy lensing, based on halo occupation distribution modeling. Using the complete Mira-Titan suite of 111N-body simulations, our emulators vary over eight cosmological parameters and include the effects of neutrino mass and dynamical dark energy. We demonstrate that our emulators are sufficiently accurate for the analysis of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR12 CMASS galaxy sample over the range 0.5 ≤r≤ 50h−1Mpc. Furthermore, we show that our emulators are capable of recovering unbiased cosmological constraints from realistic mock catalogs over the same range. Our mock catalog tests show the efficacy of combining small-scale galaxy–galaxy lensing with redshift space clustering and that we can constrain the growth rate andσ8to 7% and 4.5%, respectively, for a CMASS-like sample using only the measurements covered by our emulator. With the inclusion of a cosmic microwave background prior onH0, this reduces to a 2% measurement of the growth rate.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2219212
- PAR ID:
- 10433298
- Publisher / Repository:
- DOI PREFIX: 10.3847
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- The Astrophysical Journal
- Volume:
- 952
- Issue:
- 1
- ISSN:
- 0004-637X
- Format(s):
- Medium: X Size: Article No. 80
- Size(s):
- Article No. 80
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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