Massive neutrinos and degeneracies in Lyman-alpha forest simulations
Abstract
Using a suite of hydrodynamical simulations with cold dark matter, baryons, and neutrinos, we present a detailed study of the effect of massive neutrinos on the 1-D and 3-D flux power spectra of the Lyman-α (Lyα) forest. The presence of massive neutrinos in cosmology induces a scale- and time-dependent suppression of structure formation that is strongest on small scales. Measuring this suppression is a key method for inferring neutrino masses from cosmological data, and is one of the main goals of ongoing and future surveys like eBOSS, DES, LSST, Euclid or DESI . The clustering in the Lyα forest traces the quasi-linear power at late times and on small scales. In combination with observations of the cosmic microwave background, the forest therefore provides some of the tightest constraints on the sum of the neutrino masses. However there is a well-known degeneracy between Σmν and the amplitude of perturbations in the linear matter power spectrum. We study the corresponding degeneracy in the 1-D flux power spectrum of the Lyα forest, and for the first time also study this degeneracy in the 3-D flux power spectrum. We show that the non-linear effects of massive neutrinos on the Lyα forest, beyond the effectmore »
- Authors:
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- Univ. College London (United Kingdom)
- Univ. College London, Dorking, Surrey (United Kingdom). Mullard Space Science Laboratory
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Univ. of California, Riverside, CA (United States)
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Stockholm Univ. (Sweden). AlbaNova, Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); Royal Society; National Science Foundation (NSF); Science Research Council of Sweden
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1631649
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; ST/R000476/1; AST-1817256; ST/P002307/1; ST/R002452/; ST/R00689X/1
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 2020; Journal Issue: 04; Journal ID: ISSN 1475-7516
- Publisher:
- Institute of Physics (IOP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
Citation Formats
Pedersen, Christian, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Kitching, Thomas D., McDonald, Patrick, Bird, Simeon, Slosar, Anže, Rogers, Keir K., and Pontzen, Andrew. Massive neutrinos and degeneracies in Lyman-alpha forest simulations. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2020/04/025.
Pedersen, Christian, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Kitching, Thomas D., McDonald, Patrick, Bird, Simeon, Slosar, Anže, Rogers, Keir K., & Pontzen, Andrew. Massive neutrinos and degeneracies in Lyman-alpha forest simulations. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2020/04/025
Pedersen, Christian, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Kitching, Thomas D., McDonald, Patrick, Bird, Simeon, Slosar, Anže, Rogers, Keir K., and Pontzen, Andrew. Fri .
"Massive neutrinos and degeneracies in Lyman-alpha forest simulations". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2020/04/025. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1631649.
@article{osti_1631649,
title = {Massive neutrinos and degeneracies in Lyman-alpha forest simulations},
author = {Pedersen, Christian and Font-Ribera, Andreu and Kitching, Thomas D. and McDonald, Patrick and Bird, Simeon and Slosar, Anže and Rogers, Keir K. and Pontzen, Andrew},
abstractNote = {Using a suite of hydrodynamical simulations with cold dark matter, baryons, and neutrinos, we present a detailed study of the effect of massive neutrinos on the 1-D and 3-D flux power spectra of the Lyman-α (Lyα) forest. The presence of massive neutrinos in cosmology induces a scale- and time-dependent suppression of structure formation that is strongest on small scales. Measuring this suppression is a key method for inferring neutrino masses from cosmological data, and is one of the main goals of ongoing and future surveys like eBOSS, DES, LSST, Euclid or DESI . The clustering in the Lyα forest traces the quasi-linear power at late times and on small scales. In combination with observations of the cosmic microwave background, the forest therefore provides some of the tightest constraints on the sum of the neutrino masses. However there is a well-known degeneracy between Σmν and the amplitude of perturbations in the linear matter power spectrum. We study the corresponding degeneracy in the 1-D flux power spectrum of the Lyα forest, and for the first time also study this degeneracy in the 3-D flux power spectrum. We show that the non-linear effects of massive neutrinos on the Lyα forest, beyond the effect of linear power amplitude suppression, are negligible, and this degeneracy persists in the Lyα forest observables to a high precision. Here, we discuss the implications of this degeneracy for choosing parametrisations of the Lyα forest for cosmological analysis.},
doi = {10.1088/1475-7516/2020/04/025},
journal = {Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics},
number = 04,
volume = 2020,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Apr 17 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Fri Apr 17 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}
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