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穿越结构形成非线性区段的原初锐利特征

Primordial Sharp Features through the Nonlinear Regime of Structure Formation

Clément Stahl, Denis Werth, Vivian Poulin

AI总结:

本文通过N体模拟研究原初锐利特征在非线性结构形成中的存留问题,发现局域功率增强/减弱和暗晕质量函数振荡可保留特征信息,为小尺度约束暴胀物理开辟新途径。

摘要:

暴胀期间慢滚状态的突然违反是许多紫外完备暴胀模型的自然预言,会在原初功率谱中产生锐利特征。在大尺度上,这些特征为研究暴胀物理提供了独特窗口,其约束主要来自宇宙微波背景对线性演化的原初涨落的观测。然而,在较小尺度上,原初特征能否在晚期非线性宇宙学演化中存活尚不清楚,因为预期它们会被模耦合抹平。本文通过专门的N体数值模拟来探讨这一问题。我们证明,尽管振荡型模式会随时间的推移被非线性效应逐渐抹除,原初锐利特征的特征信号仍可穿过结构形成的非线性区段而存留下来。这些信号表现为物质功率谱中的局域功率增强或减弱,其幅度和位置原则上可用于恢复原初特征的尺度,以及在暗晕质量函数中呈现振荡型模式。这些发现一方面凸显了在小尺度上约束暴胀物理的能力,另一方面也揭示了与非线性结构形成区段中其他物理过程(如非冷暗物质候选者)可能存在的简并所带来的挑战。我们的结果为在大尺度结构和星系物理中探测暴胀物理开辟了新途径,并强调了发展更精细理论工具以稳健约束原初特征的必要性。

英文摘要:

Sudden violations of the slow-roll regime during inflation, a natural prediction of many UV-complete inflationary models, give rise to sharp features in the primordial power spectrum. At large scales, these features provide a unique window into the physics of inflation, with constraints primarily derived from Cosmic Microwave Background observations of linearly evolved primordial fluctuations. However, on smaller scales, it is less clear whether primordial features would survive the late-time nonlinear cosmological evolution, as they are expected to be washed out by mode coupling. In this paper, we run dedicated N-body simulations to tackle this question. We demonstrate that, while oscillatory-like patterns are erased over time by nonlinearities, signatures of primordial sharp features can persist through the nonlinear regime of structure formation. Those take the form of a localised power enhancement or decrease in the matter power spectrum, whose amplitude and position can in principle be used to recover the scale of the primordial feature, and an oscillatory pattern in the halo mass function. While these findings highlight the power for constraining inflationary physics at small scales, they also show the challenges posed by potential degeneracies with other physical processes relevant in the nonlinear regime of structure formation such as non-cold dark matter candidates. Our results open new avenues for probing inflationary physics in large scale structures and galactic physics and emphasise the need for refined theoretical tools to robustly constrain primordial features.

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