The halo 3-point correlation function: a methodological analysis

Abstract

We measure the 3PCF of 300 halo catalogs from the Minerva simulations covering a total volume of $1000h^{-3}{\mathrm{Gpc}}^3$. Each 3PCF measurement includes all possible triangular configurations with sides between 20 and $130h^{-1}\mathrm{Gpc}$. First, we test different estimates of the covariance matrix, a crucial aspect of the analysis. We compare the covariance computed numerically from the limited but accurate benchmark simulations set to the one obtained from $10000$ approximate halo catalogs generated with the Pinocchio code. We demonstrate that the two numerically-estimated covariance matrices largely match, confirming the validity of approximate methods based on Lagrangian Perturbation Theory for generating mocks suitable for covariance estimation. We also compare the numerical covariance with a theoretical prediction in the Gaussian approximation. We find a good match between the two for separations above 40 $h^{-1}\mathrm{Gpc}$. We test the 3PCF tree-level model in Perturbation Theory. The model is adopted in a likelihood analysis aimed at the determination of bias parameters. We find that, for our sample of halos at redshift $z=1$, the tree-level model performs well for separations $r\ge 40h^{-1}\mathrm{Gpc}$. Results obtained with this scale cut are robust against different choices of covariance matrix. We compare to the analogous analysis of the halo bispectrum already presented in a previous publication, finding a remarkable agreement between the two statistics. We then test different assumptions to build the model defining a robust combination of hypotheses that lead to unbiased parameter estimates. Our results confirm the importance of 3PCF, supplying a solid recipe for its inclusion in likelihood analyses. Moreover, it opens the path for further improvements, especially in modelling, to extract information from non-linear regimes

arXiv comment24 pages, 10 figures. Accepted for publication to JCAP

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