feasibility of detecting dark energy using bispectrum
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Feasibility of detecting dark energy using bispectrum. Yipeng Jing Shanghai Astronomical Observatory. Hong Guo and YPJ, in preparation. Exploring Dark Energy ----Physical Principles. Measuring the luminosity distance---standard candles Measuring the angular distance---standard rulers - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Feasibility of detecting dark energy using bispectrum
Yipeng Jing
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
Hong Guo and YPJ, in preparation
Exploring Dark Energy----Physical Principles
• Measuring the luminosity distance---standard candles
• Measuring the angular distance---standard rulers• Measuring the shape of a known object• Measuring the dynamical evolution of the structur
es----linear growth factor D(z)• Dynamical DE or w(z): measuring the geometry o
r DM dynamics at z=0—2
Power spectrum
Bispectrum
Reduced Bispectrum
Density Fluctuation
Definition of the bispectrum
Basics about the bispectrum method to measure the linear growth factor
General properties of bispectrum
• The quantity measures the correlation of the densities at three points in space;
• It is vanished for Gaussian density fluctuation field;
• But it is generated by gravitational clustering of matter;
• It can be also induced by selecting the density field in a biased way (e.g. the galaxy density field)
Bias Relation
2nd order Perturbation Theory
Q_m depends on the shape of P(k) only
Can measure D(z) through measuring b_1
On sufficiently large scale
Why Bispectrum
• In principle, one can measure the growth factor by measuring the power spectrum and the bispectrum since D(z) =1/b, without relying on the assumptions on bias and dynamics etc; measure sigma_8 and DE;
• Bispectrum is of great use in its own right: non-Gaussian features (inflation), bias factor (galaxy formation), nonlinear evolution
The key problems when measuring the growth factor
• Nonlinear evolution of dark matter clustering;
• Nonlinear coupling of galaxies to dark matter;
• Is there any systematic bias in measuring D(z)? On which scales ?
• Feasibility to measure with next generation of galaxy surveys (especially for those at high redshift) ?
• Simulation requirement: Large volume and high resolution
Cosmological N-body simulations at SHAO with 10243 particles (PP-PM, Jing et al. 2007)
Box size
(Mpc/h)
M_p
(M_sun/h)
realizations
LCDM1 150 2.2E7 3
LCDM2 300 1.8 E9 4
LCDM3 600 1.5 E10 4
LCDM4 1200 1.2 E 11 4
LCDM5 1800 4.0 E 11 4
Distribution of dark matter and galaxies ---simulations
Density of dark matterGalaxy distribution based on a semi-analytical model (Kang et al. 2005). Red for E and blue for S galaxies
Test of the 2nd order Perturbation Theory
Valid on scales larger than that of k=0.1 h/Mpc (less than 10%)
Halo model: not perfect but helpful
Halo model: understanding the nonlinear evolution (but two-halo term sensitive to upper l
imit in the integral)
Test of the bias model
• Using Semi-Analytic Model of Millennium Simulation (Croton et al. 2006) to build Mock sample of “galaxies”.
• mock galaxies: 600 Mpc/h (3 realizations) and 1200 Mpc/h (4 realizations)
500 Mpc/h
1200 Mpc/hMillennium Simulation
Probability of galaxies in halos
Systematics: a few percent level;
Non-linear Q_m used;
Valid on slightly smaller scales
(k<0.2 h/Mpc)
Error bars need to be estimated carefully
b2: may tell about galaxy formation
Positive for brightest galaxies (M_r<-22.5), negative for bright and faint galaxies
Error bars of bispectrumare comparable to the Gaussian fluctuation on large scales k<0.1 h/Mpc (Dark Matter)
Error bars of B_g comparable to the Gaussian case
Mock galaxies
Preliminary conclusions• 2nd perturbation theory for the bispectrum of dark
matter is valid for k<0.1 Mpc/h at redshift 0 • Also valid for variance Delta^2(k)<0.3 at high red
shift;• The bias expansion valid on slightly larger scales
(about <0.1 Mpc/h)• The error is close to the Gaussian one • Unbiased measurement of b1 and b2, therefore, da
rk energy and galaxy formation, promising• Feasibility study with ongoing redshift surveys, es
pecially at high redshifts, is being undertaken;• Accurate prediction for Q_m needs to be done (cf.
loop-corrections, Sccocimarro et al.)