Cosmic Calibration: Constraints from the Matter Power Spectrum and the Cosmic Microwave Background

Abstract

Several cosmological measurements have attained significant levels of maturity and accuracy over the last decade. Continuing this trend, future observations promise measurements of the statistics of the cosmic mass distribution at an accuracy level of one percent out to spatial scales with k~10 h/Mpc and even smaller, entering highly nonlinear regimes of gravitational instability. In order to interpret these observations and extract useful cosmological information from them, such as the equation of state of dark energy, very costly high precision, multi-physics simulations must be performed. We have recently implemented a new statistical framework with the aim of obtaining accurate parameter constraints from combining observations with a limited number of simulations. The key idea is the replacement of the full simulator by a fast emulator with controlled error bounds. In this paper, we provide a detailed description of the methodology and extend the framework to include joint analysis of cosmic microwave background and large scale structure measurements. Our framework is especially well-suited for upcoming large scale structure probes of dark energy such as baryon acoustic oscillations and, especially, weak lensing, where percent level accuracy on nonlinear scales is needed.

15 pages, 14 figures

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• The 2.5 m Telescope of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• Cosmological Constraints from the SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies
• The halo mass function from the dark ages through the present day
• Cosmic Calibration
• Fast cosmological parameter estimation using neural networks

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