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EnglishWe explore the scale dependence of halo bias using real-space cross-correlation measurements in N-body simulations and in PINOCCHIO, an algorithm based on Lagrangian Perturbation Theory. Recent work has shown how to interpret such real-space measurements in terms of k-dependent bias in Fourier space, and how to remove the k-dependence to reconstruct the k-independent peak-background split halo bias parameters. We compare our reconstruction of the linear bias, which requires no free parameters, with previous estimates from N-body simulations which were obtained directly in Fourier space at large scales, and find very good agreement. Our reconstruction of the quadratic bias is similarly parameter-free, although in this case there are no previous Fourier space measurements to compare with. Our analysis of N-body simulations explicitly tests the predictions of the excursion set peaks (ESP) formalism of Paranjape et al. for the scale dependence of bias; we find that the ESP predictions accurately describe our measurements. In addition, our measurements in PINOCCHIO serve as a useful, successful consistency check between PINOCCHIO and N-body simulations that is not accessible to traditional measurements.
| Titolo: | Bias deconstructed: unravelling the scale dependence of halo bias using real-space measurements |
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| Data di pubblicazione: | 2013 |
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| Abstract: | We explore the scale dependence of halo bias using real-space cross-correlation measurements in N-body simulations and in PINOCCHIO, an algorithm based on Lagrangian Perturbation Theory. Recent work has shown how to interpret such real-space measurements in terms of k-dependent bias in Fourier space, and how to remove the k-dependence to reconstruct the k-independent peak-background split halo bias parameters. We compare our reconstruction of the linear bias, which requires no free parameters, with previous estimates from N-body simulations which were obtained directly in Fourier space at large scales, and find very good agreement. Our reconstruction of the quadratic bias is similarly parameter-free, although in this case there are no previous Fourier space measurements to compare with. Our analysis of N-body simulations explicitly tests the predictions of the excursion set peaks (ESP) formalism of Paranjape et al. for the scale dependence of bias; we find that the ESP predictions accurately describe our measurements. In addition, our measurements in PINOCCHIO serve as a useful, successful consistency check between PINOCCHIO and N-body simulations that is not accessible to traditional measurements. |
| Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11368/2741301 |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt1578 |
| Appare nelle tipologie: | 1.1 Articolo in Rivista |
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