Shim, J;
Codis, S;
Pichon, C;
Pogosyan, D;
Cadiou, C;
(2021)
The clustering of critical points in the evolving cosmic web.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
, 502
(3)
pp. 3885-3910.
10.1093/mnras/stab263.
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Abstract
Focusing on both small separations and Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation scales, the cosmic evolution of the clustering properties of peak, void, wall, and filament-type critical points is measured using two-point correlation functions in $\Lambda$CDM dark matter simulations as a function of their relative rarity. A qualitative comparison to the corresponding theory for Gaussian Random fields allows us to understand the following observed features: i) the appearance of an exclusion zone at small separation, whose size depends both on rarity and on the signature (\ie the number of negative eigenvalues) of the critical points involved; ii) the amplification of the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation bump with rarity and its reversal for cross-correlations involving negatively biased critical points; iii) the orientation-dependent small-separation divergence of the cross-correlations of peaks and filaments (voids and walls) which reflects the relative loci of such points in the filament's (wall's) eigenframe. The most significant features of the correlations are tabulated. The (cross-) correlations involving the most non-linear critical points (peaks, voids) display significant variation with redshift, while those involving less non-linear critical points seem mostly insensitive to redshift evolution, which should prove advantageous to model. The relative distances to the maxima of the peak-to-wall and peak-to-void over that of the peak-to-filament cross-correlation are in ratios of $\sim\sqrt{2}$ and $\sim\sqrt{3}$, respectively which could be interpreted as an indication of the cosmic crystal being on average close to a cubic lattice. The insensitivity to redshift evolution suggests that the absolute and relative clustering of critical points could become a topologically robust alternative to standard clustering techniques when analyzing upcoming large scale surveys such as Euclid or LSST.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The clustering of critical points in the evolving cosmic web |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/stab263 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab263 |
| 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, methods: data analysis, methods: statistical, 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/10123130 |
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