\textit{Unbiased} cosmology inference from biased tracers using the EFT likelihood

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/11/008zbMATH Open1486.85022arXiv2004.06707OpenAlexW3095235344MaRDI QIDQ5035270FDOQ5035270

Authors: Fabian Schmidt, Giovanni Cabass, Jens Jasche, Guilhem Lavaux 

Publication date: 21 February 2022

Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present updates on the cosmology inference using the effective field theory (EFT) likelihood presented previously in Schmidt et al., 2018, Elsner et al., 2019 [1,2]. Specifically, we add a cutoff to the initial conditions that serve as starting point for the matter forward model. We show that this cutoff, which was not employed in any previous related work, is important to regularize loop integrals that otherwise involve small-scale, non-perturbative modes. We then present results on the inferred value of the linear power spectrum normalization $sigm{a}_8$ from rest-frame halo catalogs using both second- and third-order bias expansions, imposing uniform priors on all bias parameters. Due to the perfect bias-$sigm{a}_8$ degeneracy at linear order, constraints on $sigm{a}_8$ rely entirely on nonlinear information. The results show the expected convergence behavior when lowering the cutoff in wavenumber, $Lambda$. When including modes up to $kleqLambda=0.1,h,{mMpc}^{-1}$ in the second-order case, $sigm{a}_8$ is recovered to within $lesssim6,\mathrm{\%}$ for a range of halo masses and redshifts. The systematic bias shrinks to $4,\mathrm{\%}$ or less for the third-order bias expansion on the same range of scales. Together with additional evidence we provide, this shows that the residual mismatch in $sigm{a}_8$ can be attributed to higher-order bias contributions. We conclude that the EFT likelihood is able to infer unbiased cosmological constraints, within expected theoretical systematic errors, from physical biased tracers on quasilinear scales

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06707

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zbMATH Keywords

gravitygalaxy clusteringgalaxy surveyscosmological parameters from LSS

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Feynman diagrams (81T18) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Nonlinear higher-order PDEs (35G20) Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints (70H45) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15) Effective quantum field theories (81T12)

Cites Work

• The Large-Sample Distribution of the Likelihood Ratio for Testing Composite Hypotheses
• Rapid Computation of the Discrete Fourier Transform
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• The effective field theory of cosmological large scale structures
• Large-scale galaxy bias
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Cited In (9)

• The power of locality: primordial non-Gaussianity at the map level
• The renormalization group for large-scale structure: primordial non-Gaussianities
• Modeling the marked spectrum of matter and biased tracers in real- and redshift-space
• The EFT likelihood for large-scale structure in redshift space
• Sigma-eight at the percent level: the EFT likelihood in real space
• Cosmology inference from a biased density field using the EFT-based likelihood
• The likelihood for LSS: stochasticity of bias coefficients at all orders
• An \(n\)-th order Lagrangian forward model for large-scale structure
• BAO scale inference from biased tracers using the EFT likelihood

Uses Software

• GADGET
• MINUIT

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