Cosmological perturbation theory for baryons and dark matter I: one-loop corrections in the RPT framework

Details Cosmological perturbation theory for baryons and dark matter I: one-loop corrections in the RPT framework Cosmological perturbation theory for baryons and dark matter I: one-loop corrections in the RPT framework

2009-10-28

arxiv.org/abs/0910.5220v2

Phys.Rev.D81:023524,2010

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

39 pages, 14 figures. Accepted for publication in the PRD. Refs added. Typos corrected. Some clarifying notes added

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.81.023524

We generalize the `renormalized' perturbation theory (RPT) formalism of Crocce & Scoccimarro (2006a) to deal with multiple fluids in the Universe and here we present calculations up to the one-loop level. We apply the approach to the non-linear evolution of baryon and cold dark matter (CDM) perturbations, evolving from distinct sets of initial conditions. In current models of structure formation, it is standard practice to treat baryons and CDM as an effective single component fluid. In this approximation, one uses a weighed sum of late-time baryon and CDM transfer functions to set initial conditions. Here, we explore whether this approach can be used for high precision work. We show that, even for a pure linear treatment, there is a large-scale scale-dependent bias between baryons and CDM for WMAP5 cosmology. This bias is >1% until the present day, when it is driven towards unity through gravitational relaxation. Using the RPT formalism we test this approximation in the non-linear regime, and show that the CDM power spectrum in the 2-component fluid differs from that obtained from a 1-component fluid by ~3% on scales of order k~0.05 h/Mpc at z=10, and by ~0.5% at z=0. However, for the case of baryons the situation is worse and we find that the power spectrum is suppressed by ~15% on scales k~0.05 h/Mpc at z=10, and by ~3-5% at z=0, relative to the total matter. Importantly, besides the suppression of the spectrum, baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) are amplified for baryon and damped for CDM spectra. Thus, high precision modeling of baryons can not be probed through CDM only simulations; detection significance of BAO will be amplified in probes that study baryonic matter. Total mass can be modeled accurately using a 1-component fluid approach at all times. (Abridged)

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