Abstract
We provide predictions on small-scale cosmological density power spectrum from supernova lensing dispersion. Parametrizing the primordial power spectrum with running a and running of running β of the spectral index, we exclude large positive α and β parameters which induce too large lensing dispersions over current observational upper bound. We ran cosmological N-body simulations of collisionless dark matter particles to investigate non-linear evolution of the primordial power spectrum with positive running parameters. The initial small-scale enhancement of the power spectrum is largely erased when entering into the non-linear regime. For example, even if the linear power spectrum at k > 10 h Mpc-1 is enhanced by 1-2 orders of magnitude, the enhancement much decreases to a factor of 2-3 at late time (z ≤ 1.5). Therefore, the lensing dispersion induced by the dark matter fluctuations weakly constrains the running parameters. When including baryon-cooling effects (which strongly enhance the small-scale clustering), the constraint is comparable to the Planck constraint, depending on the UV cut-off. Further investigations of the non-linear matter spectrum with baryonic processes is needed to reach a firm constraint.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 552-562 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY |
| Volume | 455 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Jan 2016 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Cosmological parameters
- Cosmology
- Gravitational lensing
- Inflation
- Large-scale structure of Universe
- Theory
- Weak
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Space and Planetary Science
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