Cosmological inference with halo clustering reconstructed from the redshift-space galaxy distribution

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Main Authors: Hada, Ryuichiro, Okumura, Teppei
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author Hada, Ryuichiro
Okumura, Teppei
author_facet Hada, Ryuichiro
Okumura, Teppei
contents Accurate modeling of small-scale redshift-space clustering is crucial for full shape RSD analyses, where satellite galaxies contribute to 1-halo terms and Finger-of-God distortions. We investigate halo reconstruction based on the cylinder grouping (CG) method of Okumura et al. (2017), which selects an effective halo center tracer from the observed galaxy distribution, and how it impacts cosmological parameter inference. Using DESI-like luminous red galaxy mock catalogs from the AbacusSummit simulations at $z=1.1$, we perform effective field theory (EFT)-based full-shape modeling of the power spectrum of the reconstructed-halo sample. We show that the dominant reconstruction-induced systematics can be described and incorporated within the standard EFT framework. In particular, a simple multipole-dependent rescaling inferred directly from the data on large scales captures the dominant effect, while residual small-scale changes are absorbed by the standard counterterm and stochastic sector, without introducing additional reconstruction-specific parameters. The reconstructed-halo sample yields unbiased constraints on cosmological parameters, including the growth rate $fσ_8$ and Alcock-Paczynski parameters. Compared to the galaxy sample, it enables both improved robustness and increased statistical precision: the inferred $fσ_8$ remains stable when extending the fit beyond $k_{\max}\simeq 0.2\,h\,{\rm Mpc}^{-1}$, with its uncertainty reduced by more than $20\%$.
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spellingShingle Cosmological inference with halo clustering reconstructed from the redshift-space galaxy distribution
Hada, Ryuichiro
Okumura, Teppei
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Accurate modeling of small-scale redshift-space clustering is crucial for full shape RSD analyses, where satellite galaxies contribute to 1-halo terms and Finger-of-God distortions. We investigate halo reconstruction based on the cylinder grouping (CG) method of Okumura et al. (2017), which selects an effective halo center tracer from the observed galaxy distribution, and how it impacts cosmological parameter inference. Using DESI-like luminous red galaxy mock catalogs from the AbacusSummit simulations at $z=1.1$, we perform effective field theory (EFT)-based full-shape modeling of the power spectrum of the reconstructed-halo sample. We show that the dominant reconstruction-induced systematics can be described and incorporated within the standard EFT framework. In particular, a simple multipole-dependent rescaling inferred directly from the data on large scales captures the dominant effect, while residual small-scale changes are absorbed by the standard counterterm and stochastic sector, without introducing additional reconstruction-specific parameters. The reconstructed-halo sample yields unbiased constraints on cosmological parameters, including the growth rate $fσ_8$ and Alcock-Paczynski parameters. Compared to the galaxy sample, it enables both improved robustness and increased statistical precision: the inferred $fσ_8$ remains stable when extending the fit beyond $k_{\max}\simeq 0.2\,h\,{\rm Mpc}^{-1}$, with its uncertainty reduced by more than $20\%$.
title Cosmological inference with halo clustering reconstructed from the redshift-space galaxy distribution
topic Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.11694