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Revisiting the effects of baryon physics on small-scale redshift space distortions

Kwan, J, McCarthy, IG and Salcido, J (2024) Revisiting the effects of baryon physics on small-scale redshift space distortions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 533 (3). pp. 3570-3584. ISSN 0035-8711

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Abstract

Redshift space distortions are an important probe of the growth of large-scale structure and for constraining cosmological parameters in general. As galaxy redshift surveys approach per cent level precision in their observations of the two point clustering statistics, it is timely to review what effects baryons and associated processes such as feedback may have on small-scale clustering in redshift space. Contrary to previous studies in the literature, we show using the large-volume BAHAMAS hydrodynamic simulations that the effect of baryons can be as much as 1 per cent in the k ∼ 0.1 h Mpc−1 range for the monopole and 5 per cent for quadrupole, and that this could rise to as much as 10 per cent at k ∼ 10 h Mpc−1 in both measurements. For the halo power spectra, this difference can be as much 3-4 per cent in the monopole on scales of 0.05 < k < 0.3 h Mpc−1 for 1013 h−1 M haloes. We find that these deviations can be mitigated to the sub- per cent level in the both the monopole and quadrupole up to k ∼ 0.3 h Mpc−1 if the baryon corrected halo masses are used to calculate the redshift space power spectra. Finally, we use the COSMO-OWLS simulation suite to explore the changes in the redshift space power spectra with different feedback prescriptions, finding that there is a maximum of 15–20 per cent difference between the redshift space monopole and quadrupole with and without baryons at k ∼ 1–2 h Mpc−1 within these models.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: galaxies: haloes; large-scale structure of Universe; cosmology: theory; 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)
SWORD Depositor: A Symplectic
Date Deposited: 13 Nov 2024 12:09
Last Modified: 13 Nov 2024 12:15
DOI or ID number: 10.1093/mnras/stae1968
URI: https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/24755
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