1. SUNBIRD: a simulation-based model for full-shape density-split clustering.
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Cuesta-Lazaro, Carolina, Paillas, Enrique, Yuan, Sihan, Cai, Yan-Chuan, Nadathur, Seshadri, Percival, Will J, Beutler, Florian, de Mattia, Arnaud, Eisenstein, Daniel J, Forero-Sanchez, Daniel, Padilla, Nelson, Pinon, Mathilde, Ruhlmann-Kleider, Vanina, Sánchez, Ariel G, Valogiannis, Georgios, and Zarrouk, Pauline
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STATISTICAL correlation ,GALAXY clusters ,LARGE scale structure (Astronomy) ,ACCESS to information - Abstract
Combining galaxy clustering information from regions of different environmental densities can help break cosmological parameter degeneracies and access non-Gaussian information from the density field that is not readily captured by the standard two-point correlation function (2PCF) analyses. However, modelling these density-dependent statistics down to the non-linear regime has so far remained challenging. We present a simulation-based model that is able to capture the cosmological dependence of the full shape of the density-split clustering (DSC) statistics down to intra-halo scales. Our models are based on neural-network emulators that are trained on high-fidelity mock galaxy catalogues within an extended-ΛCDM framework, incorporating the effects of redshift-space, Alcock–Paczynski distortions, and models of the halo–galaxy connection. Our models reach sub-per cent level accuracy down to |$1 \, h^{-1}\text{Mpc}$| and are robust against different choices of galaxy–halo connection modelling. When combined with the galaxy 2PCF, DSC can tighten the constraints on ω
cdm , σ8 , and ns by factors of 2.9, 1.9, and 2.1, respectively, compared to a 2PCF-only analysis. DSC additionally puts strong constraints on environment-based assembly bias parameters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2024
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