Reconstruction of primordial density fields

Details Reconstruction of primordial density fields Reconstruction of primordial density fields

2005-01-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0501217v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 365 (2006) 939-959

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Version to appear in MNRAS, 24 pages, 21 figures appearing (uses 35 figure files), 1 table

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09774.x

The Monge-Ampere-Kantorovich (MAK) reconstruction is tested against cosmological N-body simulations. Using only the present mass distribution sampled with particles, and the assumption of homogeneity of the primordial distribution, MAK recovers for each particle the non-linear displacement field between its present position and its Lagrangian position on a primordial uniform grid. To test the method, we examine a standard LCDM N-body simulation with Gaussian initial conditions and 6 models with non-Gaussian initial conditions: a chi-squared model, a model with primordial voids and four weakly non-Gaussian models. Our extensive analyses of the Gaussian simulation show that the level of accuracy of the reconstruction of the nonlinear displacement field achieved by MAK is unprecedented, at scales as small as about 3 Mpc. In particular, it captures in a nontrivial way the nonlinear contribution from gravitational instability, well beyond the Zel'dovich approximation. This is also confirmed by our analyses of the non-Gaussian samples. Applying the spherical collapse model to the probability distribution function of the divergence of the displacement field, we also show that from a well-reconstructed displacement field, such as that given by MAK, it is possible to accurately disentangle dynamical contributions induced by gravitational clustering from possible initial non-Gaussianities, allowing one to efficiently test the non-Gaussian nature of the primordial fluctuations. In addition, a simple application of MAK using the Zel'dovich approximation allows one to also recover accurately the present-day peculiar velocity field on scales of about 8 Mpc.

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