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作为大质量中微子与重子物理灵敏探针的暗晕双谱

The halo bispectrum as a sensitive probe of massive neutrinos and baryon physics

Victoria Yankelevich, Ian G. McCarthy, Juliana Kwan, Sam G. Stafford, Jia Liu

AI总结:

本研究利用BAHAMAS模拟套件探究重子物理与大质量中微子对暗晕双谱的影响,发现暗晕成团通常受重子物理增强,双谱对恒星形成反馈效率和中微子质量高度敏感且二者效应可分离,为下一代巡天高精度测量提供支持。

摘要:

功率谱一直是大尺度结构宇宙学研究的主力工具。然而,现今的物质分布具有高度非高斯性,高阶关联函数中也蕴含着重要的宇宙学信息。与此同时,此前研究已表明重子物理(尤其是活动星系核(AGN)反馈)会强烈影响两点统计量,但迄今为止其对高阶函数的影响探索仍较为有限。本文中,我们使用BAHAMAS(重子与宇宙学大尺度结构模拟项目)宇宙流体动力学模拟套件,探究重子物理与大质量中微子对暗晕双谱的影响。与受重子物理抑制的物质成团不同,我们发现暗晕成团通常会得到增强。该效应的强度及其延伸的尺度取决于暗晕的选取方式。在小尺度上(k > 1 $h$ Mpc$^{-1}$,由星系群/星系团的卫星星系主导),我们发现双谱对恒星形成与反馈的效率高度敏感,使其成为检验星系形成模型的绝佳试验场。我们表明,反馈效应与大质量中微子的效应在很大程度上是可分离的(相互独立),并且大质量中微子几乎在所有尺度上(直至自由流动长度,重子物理占主导的最小尺度除外)都会强烈抑制暗晕双谱。双谱在最大尺度上对中微子的强敏感性、以及在最小尺度上对星系形成物理的强敏感性,为下一代宽场巡天即将开展的高精度测量带来了良好前景。

英文摘要:

The power spectrum has been a workhorse for cosmological studies of large-scale structure. However, the present-day matter distribution is highly non-Gaussian and significant cosmological information is also contained in higher-order correlation functions. Meanwhile, baryon physics (particularly AGN feedback) has previously been shown to strongly affect the two-point statistics but there has been limited exploration of its effects on higher-order functions to date. Here we use the BAHAMAS suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations to explore the effects of baryon physics and massive neutrinos on the halo bispectrum. In contrast to matter clustering which is suppressed by baryon physics, we find that the halo clustering is typically enhanced. The strength of the effect and the scale over which it extends depends on how haloes are selected. On small scales (k > 1 $h$ Mpc$^{-1}$, dominated by satellites of groups/clusters), we find that the bispectrum is highly sensitive to the efficiency of star formation and feedback, making it an excellent testing ground for galaxy formation models. We show that the effects of feedback and the effects of massive neutrinos are largely separable (independent of each other) and that massive neutrinos strongly suppress the halo bispectrum on virtually all scales up to the free-streaming length (apart from the smallest scales, where baryon physics dominates). The strong sensitivity of the bispectrum to neutrinos on the largest scales and galaxy formation physics on the smallest scales bodes well for upcoming precision measurements from the next generation of wide-field surveys.

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