571 research outputs found
Prospects for determination of thermal history after inflation with future gravitational wave detectors
Thermal history of the Universe between inflation and big-bang
nucleosynthesis has not yet been revealed observationally. It will be probed by
the detection of primordial gravitational waves generated during inflation,
which contain information on the reheating temperature as well as the equation
of state of the Universe after inflation. Based on Fisher information
formalism, we examine how accurately the tensor-to-scalar ratio and reheating
temperature after inflation can be simultaneously determined with space-based
gravitational wave detectors such as the DECI-hertz Interferometer
Gravitational-wave Observatory (DECIGO) and the Big-Bang Observer (BBO). We
show that the reheating temperature is best determined if it is around 10^7 GeV
for tensor-to-scalar ratio of around 0.1, and explore the detectable parameter
space. We also find that equation of state of the early Universe can be also
determined accurately enough to distinguish different equation-of-state
parameters if the inflationary gravitational waves are successfully detected.
Thus future gravitational wave detectors provide a unique and promising
opportunity to reveal the thermal history of the Universe around 10^7 GeV.Comment: 21 pages, 8 figure
Nonlinear power spectrum in the presence of massive neutrinos: perturbation theory approach, galaxy bias and parameter forecasts
Future or ongoing galaxy redshift surveys can put stringent constraints on
neutrinos masses via the high-precision measurements of galaxy power spectrum,
when combined with cosmic microwave background (CMB) information. In this paper
we develop a method to model galaxy power spectrum in the weakly nonlinear
regime for a mixed dark matter (CDM plus finite-mass neutrinos) model, based on
perturbation theory (PT) whose validity is well tested by simulations for a CDM
model. In doing this we carefully study various aspects of the nonlinear
clustering and then arrive at a useful approximation allowing for a quick
computation of the nonlinear power spectrum as in the CDM case. The nonlinear
galaxy bias is also included in a self-consistent manner within the PT
framework. Thus the use of our PT model can give a more robust understanding of
the measured galaxy power spectrum as well as allow for higher sensitivity to
neutrino masses due to the gain of Fourier modes beyond the linear regime.
Based on the Fisher matrix formalism, we find that BOSS or Stage-III type
survey, when combined with Planck CMB information, gives a precision of total
neutrino mass constraint, sigma(m_nu,tot) 0.1eV, while Stage-IV type survey may
achieve sigma(m_nu,tot) 0.05eV, i.e. more than a 1-sigma detection of neutrino
masses. We also discuss possible systematic errors on dark energy parameters
caused by the neutrino mass uncertainty. The significant correlation between
neutrino mass and dark energy parameters is found, if the information on power
spectrum amplitude is included. More importantly, for Stage-IV type survey, a
best-fit dark energy model may be biased and falsely away from the underlying
true model by more than the 1-sigma statistical errors, if neutrino mass is
ignored in the model fitting.Comment: 33 pages, 11 figure
The impact of Lyman- radiative transfer on large-scale clustering in the Illustris simulation
Lyman- emitters (LAEs) are a promising probe of the large-scale
structure at high redshift, . In particular, the Hobby-Eberly
Telescope Dark Energy Experiment aims at observing LAEs at 1.9 3.5 to
measure the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) scale and the Redshift-Space
Distortion (RSD). However, Zheng et al. (2011) pointed out that the complicated
radiative transfer (RT) of the resonant Lyman- emission line generates
an anisotropic selection bias in the LAE clustering on large scales, Mpc. This effect could potentially induce a systematic error in the BAO and
RSD measurements. Also, Croft et al. (2016) claims an observational evidence of
the effect in the Lyman- intensity map, albeit statistically
insignificant. We aim at quantifying the impact of the Lyman- RT on the
large-scale galaxy clustering in detail. For this purpose, we study the
correlations between the large-scale environment and the ratio of an apparent
Lyman- luminosity to an intrinsic one, which we call the `observed
fraction', at . We apply our Lyman- RT code by post-processing
the full Illustris simulations. We simply assume that the intrinsic luminosity
of the Lyman- emission is proportional to the star formation rate of
galaxies in Illustris, yielding a sufficiently large sample of LAEs to measure
the anisotropic selection bias. We find little correlations between large-scale
environment and the observed fraction induced by the RT, and hence a smaller
anisotropic selection bias than what was claimed by Zheng et al. (2011). We
argue that the anisotropy was overestimated in the previous work due to the
insufficient spatial resolution: it is important to keep the resolution such
that it resolves the high density region down to the scale of the interstellar
medium, physical kpc. (abridged)Comment: 11 pages, published in A&
Modeling the reconstructed BAO in Fourier space
The density field reconstruction technique, which was developed to partially
reverse the nonlinear degradation of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO)
feature in the galaxy redshift surveys, has been successful in substantially
improving the cosmology constraints from recent galaxy surveys such as Baryon
Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). We estimate the efficiency of the
reconstruction method as a function of various reconstruction details. To
directly quantify the BAO information in nonlinear density fields before and
after reconstruction, we calculate the cross-correlations (i.e., propagators)
of the pre(post)-reconstructed density field with the initial linear field
using a mock galaxy sample that is designed to mimic the clustering of the BOSS
CMASS galaxies. The results directly provide the BAO damping as a function of
wavenumber that can be implemented into the Fisher matrix analysis. We focus on
investigating the dependence of the propagator on a choice of smoothing filters
and on two major different conventions of the redshift-space density field
reconstruction that have been used in literature. By estimating the BAO
signal-to-noise for each case, we predict constraints on the angular diameter
distance and Hubble parameter using the Fisher matrix analysis. We thus
determine an optimal Gaussian smoothing filter scale for the signal-to-noise
level of the BOSS CMASS. We also present appropriate BAO fitting models for
different reconstruction methods based on the first and second order Lagrangian
perturbation theory in Fourier space. Using the mock data, we show that the
modified BAO fitting model can substantially improve the accuracy of the BAO
position in the best fits as well as the goodness of the fits.Comment: 21 pages, 7 figures, 1 table. Minor revisions. Matches version
accepted by MNRA
Simultaneous constraints on the growth of structure and cosmic expansion from the multipole power spectra of the SDSS DR7 LRG sample
The anisotropic galaxy clustering on large scales provides us with a unique
opportunity to probe into the gravity theory through the redshift-space
distortions (RSDs) and the Alcock-Paczynski effect. Using the multipole power
spectra up to hexadecapole (ell=4), of the Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) sample in
the data release 7 (DR7) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey II (SDSS-II), we
obtain simultaneous constraints on the linear growth rate f, angular diameter
distance D_A, and Hubble parameter H at redshift z = 0.3. For this purpose, we
first extensively examine the validity of a theoretical model for the
non-linear RSDs using mock subhalo catalogues from N-body simulations, which
are constructed to match with the observed multipole power spectra. We show
that the input cosmological parameters of the simulations can be recovered well
within the error bars by comparing the multipole power spectra of our
theoretical model and those of the mock subhalo catalogues. We also carefully
examine systematic uncertainties in our analysis by testing the dependence on
prior assumption of the theoretical model and the range of wavenumbers to be
used in the fitting. These investigations validate that the theoretical model
can be safely applied to the real data. Thus, our results from the SDSS DR7 LRG
sample are robust including systematics of theoretical modeling; f(z = 0.3)
sigma_8(z = 0.3) =0.49+-0.08(stat.)+-0.04(sys.), D_A (z = 0.3)
=968+-42(stat.)+-17(sys.)[Mpc], H (z = 0.3)
=81.7+-5.0(stat.)+-3.7(sys.)[km/s/Mpc]. We believe that our method to constrain
the cosmological parameters using subhaloes catalogues will be useful for more
refined samples like CMASS and LOWZ catalogues in the Baryon Oscillation
Spectroscopic Survey in SDSS-III.Comment: accepted for publication in MNRA
A complete FFT-based decomposition formalism for the redshift-space bispectrum
To fully extract cosmological information from nonlinear galaxy distribution
in redshift space, it is essential to include higher-order statistics beyond
the two-point correlation function. In this paper, we propose a new
decomposition formalism for computing the anisotropic bispectrum in redshift
space and for measuring it from galaxy samples. Our formalism uses tri-polar
spherical harmonic decomposition with zero total angular momentum to compress
the 3D modes distribution in the redshift-space bispectrum. This approach
preserves three fundamental properties of the Universe: statistical
homogeneity, isotropy, and parity-symmetry, allowing us to efficiently separate
the anisotropic signal induced by redshift-space distortions (RSDs) and the
Alcock-Paczy\'{n}ski (AP) effect from the isotropic bispectrum. The relevant
expansion coefficients in terms of the anisotropic signal are reduced to one
multipole index , and the modes are induced only by the RSD or AP
effects. Our formalism has two advantages: (1) we can make use of Fast Fourier
Transforms (FFTs) to measure the bispectrum; (2) it gives a simple expression
to correct for the survey geometry, i.e., the survey window function. As a
demonstration, we measure the decomposed bispectrum from the Baryon Oscillation
Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Data Release 12, and, for the first time, present a
detection of the anisotropic bispectrum in the mode.Comment: 23 pages, 13 figure
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