Abstract / Description of output
We present an accurate non-linear matter power spectrum prediction
scheme for a variety of extensions to the standard cosmological
paradigm, which uses the tuned halo model previously developed in Mead
et al. We consider dark energy models that are both minimally and
non-minimally coupled, massive neutrinos and modified gravitational
forces with chameleon and Vainshtein screening mechanisms. In all cases,
we compare halo-model power spectra to measurements from high-resolution
simulations. We show that the tuned halo-model method can predict the
non-linear matter power spectrum measured from simulations of
parametrized w(a) dark energy models at the few per cent level for k
<10 h Mpc-1, and we present theoretically motivated
extensions to cover non-minimally coupled scalar fields, massive
neutrinos and Vainshtein screened modified gravity models that result in
few per cent accurate power spectra for k <10 h Mpc-1.
For chameleon screened models, we achieve only 10 per cent accuracy for
the same range of scales. Finally, we use our halo model to investigate
degeneracies between different extensions to the standard cosmological
model, finding that the impact of baryonic feedback on the non-linear
matter power spectrum can be considered independently of modified
gravity or massive neutrino extensions. In contrast, considering the
impact of modified gravity and massive neutrinos independently results
in biased estimates of power at the level of 5 per cent at scales k >
0.5 h Mpc-1. An updated version of our publicly available
HMCODE can be found at https://github.com/alexander-mead/hmcode.
Original language | English |
---|---|
Pages (from-to) | 1468-1488 |
Journal | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
Volume | 459 |
Issue number | 2 |
Early online date | 23 Mar 2016 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jun 2016 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- cosmology: theory
- dark energy
- large scale structure of Universe