Clustering of dark matter tracers: renormalizing the bias parameters

Details Clustering of dark matter tracers: renormalizing the bias parameters Clustering of dark matter tracers: renormalizing the bias parameters

2006-09-14

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0609413v2

Phys.Rev. D74 (2006) 103512; Erratum-ibid. D74 (2006) 129901

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

fixed factor of 2 in one term, results not qualitatively changed

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.74.103512

A commonly used perturbative method for computing large-scale clustering of tracers of mass density, like galaxies, is to model the tracer density field as a Taylor series in the local smoothed mass density fluctuations, possibly adding a stochastic component. I suggest a set of parameter redefinitions, eliminating problematic perturbative correction terms, that should represent a modest improvement, at least, to this method. As presented here, my method can be used to compute the power spectrum and bispectrum to 4th order in initial density perturbations, and higher order extensions should be straightforward. While the model is technically unchanged at this order, just reparameterized, the renormalized model is more elegant, and should have better convergence behavior, for three reasons: First, in the usual approach the effects of beyond-linear-order bias parameters can be seen at asymptotically large scales, while after renormalization the linear model is preserved in the large-scale limit, i.e., the effects of higher order bias parameters are restricted to relatively high k. Second, while the standard approach includes smoothing to suppress large perturbative correction terms, resulting in dependence on the arbitrary cutoff scale, no cutoff-sensitive terms appear explicitly after my redefinitions (and, relatedly, my correction terms are less sensitive to high-k, non-linear, power). Third, the 3rd order bias parameter disappears entirely, so my model has one fewer free parameter than usual (this parameter was redundant at the order considered). This model predicts a small modification of the baryonic acoustic oscillation (BAO) signal, in real space, supporting the robustness of BAO as a probe of dark energy, and providing a complete perturbative description over the relevant range of scales.

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