Modeling Nonlinear Evolution of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations: Convergence Regime of N-body Simulations and Analytic Models

Details Modeling Nonlinear Evolution of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations: Convergence Regime of N-body Simulations and Analytic Models Modeling Nonlinear Evolution of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations: Convergence Regime of N-body Simulations and Analytic Models

2008-10-05

arxiv.org/abs/0810.0813v2

Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan 61, pp.321-332 (2009)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

23 pages, 14 figures, accepted by PASJ

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We use a series of cosmological N-body simulations and various analytic models to study the evolution of the matter power spectrum in real space in a \Lambda Cold Dark Matter universe. We compare the results of N-body simulations against three analytical model predictions; standard perturbation theory, renormalized perturbation theory, and the closure approximation. We include the effects from finite simulation box size in the comparison. We determine the values of the maximum wavenumbers, k^{lim}_{1%} and k^{lim}_{3%}, below which the analytic models and the simulation results agree to within 1 and 3 percent, respectively. We then provide a simple empirical function which describes the convergence regime determined by comparison between our simulations and the analytical models. We find that if we use the Fourier modes within the convergence regime alone, the characteristic scale of baryon acoustic oscillations can be determined within 1% accuracy from future surveys with a volume of a few h^{-3}Gpc^3 at z\sim1 or z\sim3 in the absence of any systematic distortion of the power spectrum.

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