Non-linear CMB lensing with neutrinos and baryons: FLAMINGO simulations versus fast approximations

Upadhye, A, Kwan, J, McCarthy, IG orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-1286-483X, Salcido, J, Helly, JC, Kugel, R, Schaller, M, Schaye, J, Braspenning, J, Elbers, W, Frenk, CS, Van Daalen, MP, Vandenbroucke, B and Broxterman, JC (2024) Non-linear CMB lensing with neutrinos and baryons: FLAMINGO simulations versus fast approximations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 529 (2). pp. 1862-1876. ISSN 0035-8711

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Abstract

Weak lensing of the cosmic microwave background is rapidly emerging as a powerful probe of neutrinos, dark energy, and new physics. We present a fast computation of the non-linear CMB lensing power spectrum that combines non-linear perturbation theory at early times with power spectrum emulation using cosmological simulations at late times. Comparing our calculation with light-cones from the FLAMINGO 5.6 Gpc cube dark-matter-only simulation, we confirm its accuracy to () up to multipoles L = 3000 (L = 5000) for a νΛCDM cosmology consistent with current data. Clustering suppression due to small-scale baryonic phenomena such as feedback from active galactic nuclei can reduce the lensing power by. To our perturbation theory and emulator-based calculation, we add SP(k), a new fitting function for this suppression, and confirm its accuracy compared to the FLAMINGO hydrodynamic simulations to at L = 5000, with similar accuracy for massive neutrino models. We further demonstrate that scale-dependent suppression due to neutrinos and baryons approximately factorize, implying that a careful treatment of baryonic feedback can limit biasing neutrino mass constraints.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences; Astronomy & Astrophysics
Subjects: Q Science > QB Astronomy
Q Science > QC Physics
Divisions: Astrophysics Research Institute
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date of acceptance: 2 March 2024
Date of first compliant Open Access: 25 September 2024
Date Deposited: 25 Sep 2024 14:22
Last Modified: 04 Jul 2025 08:30
DOI or ID number: 10.1093/mnras/stae663
URI: https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/24269
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