Gualdi, D;
Gil-Marin, H;
Schuhmann, RL;
Manera, M;
Joachimi, B;
Lahav, O;
(2019)
Enhancing BOSS bispectrum cosmological constraints with maximal compression.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
, 484
(3)
pp. 3713-3730.
10.1093/mnras/stz051.
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Abstract
We apply two compression methods to the galaxy power spectrum monopole/quadrupole and bispectrum monopole measurements from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR12 CMASS sample. Both methods reduce the dimension of the original data vector to the number of cosmological parameters considered, using the Karhunen–Loeve (KL) algorithm with an ` analytic covariance model. In the first case, we infer the posterior through Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling from the likelihood of the compressed data vector (MC– KL). The second, faster option, works by first Gaussianizing and then orthogonalizing the parameter space before the compression; in this option (G-PCA) we only need to run a lowresolution preliminary MCMC sample for the Gaussianization to compute our posterior. Both compression methods accurately reproduce the posterior distributions obtained by standard MCMC sampling on the CMASS data set for a k-space range of 0.03–0.12 h Mpc−1 . The compression enables us to increase the number of bispectrum measurements by a factor of ∼23 over the standard binning (from 116 to 2734 triangle bins used), which is otherwise limited by the number of mock catalogues available. This reduces the 68 per cent credible intervals for the parameters (b1, b2, f, σ8) by (−24.8 per cent, −52.8 per cent, −26.4 per cent, −21 per cent), respectively. Using these methods for future redshift surveys such as DESI, Euclid, and PFS will drastically reduce the number of simulations needed to compute accurate covariance matrices and will facilitate tighter constraints on cosmological parameters.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Enhancing BOSS bispectrum cosmological constraints with maximal compression |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/stz051 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz051 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | methods: analytical – cosmological parameters – large-scale structure of Universe. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10067035 |
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