Bibcode
Bos, E. G. Patrick; Kitaura, Francisco-Shu; van de Weygaert, Rien
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 488, Issue 2, p.2573-2604
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2019
Citations
15
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Description
We present a self-consistent Bayesian formalism to sample the primordial
density fields compatible with a set of dark matter density tracers
after a cosmic evolution observed in redshift space. Previous works on
density reconstruction did not self-consistently consider redshift space
distortions or included an additional iterative distortion correction
step. We present here the analytic solution of coherent flows within a
Hamiltonian Monte Carlo posterior sampling of the primordial density
field. We test our method within the Zel'dovich approximation,
presenting also an analytic solution including tidal fields and
spherical collapse on small scales. Our resulting reconstructed fields
are isotropic and their power spectra are unbiased compared to the true
field defined by our mock observations. Novel algorithmic
implementations are introduced regarding the mass assignment kernels
when defining the dark matter density field and optimization of the
time-step in the Hamiltonian equations of motions. Our algorithm, dubbed
BARCODE, promises to be specially suited for analysis of the dark matter
cosmic web down to scales of a few megaparsecs. This large-scale
structure is implied by the observed spatial distribution of galaxy
clusters - such as obtained from X-ray, Sunyaev-Zel'dovich, or weak
lensing surveys - as well as that of the intergalactic medium sampled by
the Ly α forest or perhaps even by deep hydrogen intensity
mapping. In these cases, virialized motions are negligible, and the
tracers cannot be modelled as point-like objects. It could be used in
all of these contexts as a baryon acoustic oscillation reconstruction
algorithm.
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