Accurate determination of halo velocity bias in simulations and its cosmological implications

Abstract

A long-standing issue in peculiar velocity cosmology is whether the halo/galaxy velocity bias $b_v=1$ at large scale. The resolution of this important issue must resort to high precision cosmological simulations. However, this is hampered by another long-standing `sampling artifact' problem in volume weighted velocity measurement. We circumvent this problem with a hybrid approach. We first measure statistics free of sampling artifact, then link them to volume weighted statistics in theory, finally solve for the velocity bias. $b_v$ determined by our method is not only free of sampling artifact, but also free of cosmic variance. We apply this method to a $\Lambda$CDM N-body simulation of $3072^3$ particles and $1200Mpc/\mathrm{h}$ box size. For the first time, we determine the halo velocity bias to $0.1\%$-$1\%$ accuracy. Our major findings are as follows: (1) $b_v\ne 1$ at $k>0.1h/\mathrm{Mpc}$. The deviation from unity ($|b_v-1|$) increases with $k$. Depending on halo mass and redshift, it may reach $\mathcal{O}(0.01)$ at $k=0.2h/\mathrm{Mpc}$ and $\mathcal{O}(0.05)$ at $k\sim 0.3h/\mathrm{Mpc}$. The discovered $b_v\ne 1$ has statistically significant impact on structure growth rate measurement by spectroscopic redshift surveys, including DESI, Euclid and SKA. (2) Both the sign and the amplitude of $b_v-1$ depend on mass and redshift. These results disagree with the peak model prediction in that $b_v$ has much weaker deviation from unity, varies with redshift, and can be bigger than unity. (3) Most of the mass and redshift dependences can be compressed into a single dependence on the halo density bias. Based on this finding, we provide an approximate two-parameter fitting formula.

arXiv comment8 pages, 8 figures

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