Removable Matter-Power-Spectrum Covariance from Bias Fluctuations

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2011-03-28

arxiv.org/abs/1103.5476v2

Astrophys. J. 736 (2011) 8

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

Accepted to ApJ. 5 pages, 5 figures; slight clarifications to match accepted version

Scientific paper

10.1088/0004-637X/736/1/8

We find a simple, accurate model for the covariance matrix of the real-space cosmological matter power spectrum on slightly nonlinear scales (k~0.1-0.8 h/Mpc at z=0), where off-diagonal matrix elements become substantial. The model includes a multiplicative, scale-independent modulation of the power spectrum. It has only one parameter, the variance (among realizations) of the variance of the nonlinear density field in cells, with little dependence on the cell size between 2-8 Mpc/h. Furthermore, we find that this extra covariance can be modeled out by instead measuring the power spectrum of (delta/sigma_cell), i.e. the ratio of the overdensity to its dispersion in cells a few Mpc in size. Dividing delta by sigma_cell essentially removes the non-Gaussian part of the covariance matrix, nearly diagonalizing it.

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