Spherical collapse, formation hysteresis and the deeply non-linear cosmological power spectrum

Abstract

I examine differences in non-linear structure formation between cosmological models that share a $z=0$ linear power spectrum in both shape and amplitude, but that differ via their growth history. $N$-body simulations of these models display an approximately identical large-scale-structure skeleton, but reveal deeply non-linear differences in the demographics and properties of haloes. I investigate to what extent the spherical-collapse model can help in understanding these differences, in both real and redshift space. I discuss how this is difficult to do if one attempts to identify haloes directly, because in that case one is subject to the vagaries of halo finding algorithms. However, I demonstrate that the halo model of structure formation provides an accurate non-linear response in the power spectrum, but only if results from spherical collapse that include formation hysteresis are properly incorporated. I comment on how this fact can be used to provide per cent level accurate matter power spectrum predictions for dark energy models for $k\le 5h{\mathrm{Mpc}}^{-1}$ by using the halo model as a correction to accurate $\Lambda$CDM simulations. In the appendix I provide some fitting functions for the linear-collapse threshold (${\delta }_{\mathrm{c}}$) and virialized overdensity (${\Delta }_{\mathrm{v}}$) that are valid for a wide range of dark energy models. I also make my spherical-collapse code available at https://github.com/alexander-mead/collapse

10 pages, 5 figures, accepted to MNRAS; v2 - small changes to align with published version, revised fitting function that can be more easily implemented

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