Nonlinear stochastic growth rates and redshift space distortions

Abstract

The linear growth rate is commonly defined through a simple deterministic relation between the velocity divergence and the matter overdensity in the linear regime. We introduce a formalism that extends this to a nonlinear, stochastic relation between $\theta =\nabla \cdot v(\mathbf{x},t)/aH$ and $\delta$. This provides a new phenomenological approach that examines the conditional mean $<\theta |\delta >$, together with the fluctuations of $\theta$ around this mean. We measure these stochastic components using N-body simulations and find they are non-negative and increase with decreasing scale from $\sim$10% at $k<0.2h$Mpc${}^{-1}$ to 25% at $k\sim 0.45h$Mpc${}^{-1}$ at $z=0$. Both the stochastic relation and nonlinearity are more pronounced for halos, $M\le 5\times 10^{12}{M}_{\odot }{h}^{-1}$, compared to the dark matter at $z=0$ and $1$. Nonlinear growth effects manifest themselves as a rotation of the mean $<\theta |\delta >$ away from the linear theory prediction $-f_{\mathrm{LT}}\delta$, where $f_{\mathrm{LT}}$ is the linear growth rate. This rotation increases with wavenumber, $k$, and we show that it can be well-described by second order Lagrangian perturbation theory (2LPT) for $k<0.1h$Mpc${}^{-1}$. The stochasticity in the $\theta$ -- $\delta$ relation is not so simply described by 2LPT, and we discuss its impact on measurements of $f_{\mathrm{LT}}$ from two point statistics in redshift space. Given that the relationship between $\delta$ and $\theta$ is stochastic and nonlinear, this will have implications for the interpretation and precision of $f_{\mathrm{LT}}$ extracted using models which assume a linear, deterministic expression.

14 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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