Abstract

In this contribution we will discuss the non-linear effects in the baryon acoustic oscillations and present a systematic and controllable way to account for them within time-sliced perturbation theory.

Highlights

  • Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) are widely used to establish the distance-redshift relation enabling to constrain the expansion history and the composition of the Universe [1, 2]

  • Even though rBAO is significantly larger than the characteristic scale of non-linear clustering 2πk−N1L ∼ 20 Mpc/h, the leading correction computed in Eulerian standard perturbation theory (SPT) failed to capture the behavior seen in N-body data

  • At leading order the effect of bulk motions is to worsen the correlation between galaxies at separations of order rBAO, which results in the suppression of the BAO peak

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Summary

Introduction

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) are widely used to establish the distance-redshift relation enabling to constrain the expansion history and the composition of the Universe [1, 2]. Even though rBAO is significantly larger than the characteristic scale of non-linear clustering 2πk−N1L ∼ 20 Mpc/h, the leading correction computed in Eulerian standard perturbation theory (SPT) failed to capture the behavior seen in N-body data (see Fig. 1, left panel). This disagreement is caused by large-scale bulk flows whose interaction with short modes is amplified if the distribution of matter has a feature. In this short contribution we will present a new way to systematically describe the non-linear evolution of BAO in the framework of time-sliced perturbation theory (TSPT) [9, 10]

Interaction with bulk flows: a simple physical picture
Overview of Time-Sliced Perturbation Theory
IR - resummation in TSPT
Comparison with N-body data
Conclusions

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