The Mira-Titan Universe. II. Matter Power Spectrum Emulation
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
- Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States); Kavli Inst. for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, Chiba (Japan)
- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
- Simon Fraser Univ., Burnaby, BC (Canada)
- Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Arlington, VA (United States). Virginia Bioinformatics Inst.
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States); Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)
We introduce a new cosmic emulator for the matter power spectrum covering eight cosmological parameters. Targeted at optical surveys, the emulator provides accurate predictions out to a wavenumber k ~ 5Mpc-1 and redshift z ≤ 2. Besides covering the standard set of CDM parameters, massive neutrinos and a dynamical dark energy of state are included. The emulator is built on a sample set of 36 cosmological models, carefully chosen to provide accurate predictions over the wide and large parameter space. For each model, we have performed a high-resolution simulation, augmented with sixteen medium-resolution simulations and TimeRG perturbation theory results to provide accurate coverage of a wide k-range; the dataset generated as part of this project is more than 1.2Pbyte. With the current set of simulated models, we achieve an accuracy of approximately 4%. Because the sampling approach used here has established convergence and error-control properties, follow-on results with more than a hundred cosmological models will soon achieve ~1% accuracy. We compare our approach with other prediction schemes that are based on halo model ideas and remapping approaches. The new emulator code is publicly available.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC52-06NA25396
- OSTI ID:
- 1417158
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-17-21941; TRN: US1800993
- Journal Information:
- The Astrophysical Journal (Online), Vol. 847, Issue 1; ISSN 1538-4357
- Publisher:
- Institute of Physics (IOP)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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