Relativistic second-order initial conditions for simulations of large-scale structure

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2022/04/001MaRDI QIDQ5099231zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Julian Adamek, Juan Calles, Thomas Montandon, J. Noreña, Clément Stahl

Publication date 31 August 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.11249

zbMATH Keywords

non-Gaussianitycosmological simulationscosmological perturbation theory in GR and beyond

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Set functions and measures and integrals in infinite-dimensional spaces (Wiener measure, Gaussian measure, etc.) (28C20) Propagation of singularities; initial value problems on manifolds (58J47) Mathematical modeling or simulation for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-10)

Abstract: Relativistic corrections to the evolution of structure can be used to test general relativity on cosmological scales. They are also a well-known systematic contamination in the search for a primordial non-Gaussian signal. We present a numerical framework to generate RELativistic second-order Initial Conditions ($extttRELIC$) based on a generic (not necessarily separable) second-order kernel for the density perturbations. In order to keep the time complexity manageable we introduce a scale cut that separates long and short scales, and neglect the "short-short" coupling that will eventually be swamped by uncontrollable higher-order effects. To test our approach, we use the second-order Einstein-Boltzmann code $extttSONG$ to provide the numerical second-order kernel in a $Lambda$CDM model, and we demonstrate that the realisations generated by $extttRELIC$ reproduce the bispectra well whenever at least one of the scales is a "long" mode. We then present a generic algorithm that takes a perturbed density field as an inputand provides particle initial data that matches this input to arbitrary order in perturbations for a given particle-mesh scheme. We implement this algorithm in the relativistic N-body code $extttgevolution$ to demonstrate how our framework can be used to set precise initial conditions for cosmological simulations of large-scale structure.

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