The FLAMINGO project: the coupling between baryonic feedback and cosmology in light of the S8 tension

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Název: The FLAMINGO project: the coupling between baryonic feedback and cosmology in light of the S8 tension
Autoři: Willem Elbers, Carlos S Frenk, Adrian Jenkins, Baojiu Li, John C Helly, Roi Kugel, Matthieu Schaller, Joop Schaye, Joey Braspenning, Juliana Kwan, Ian G McCarthy, Jaime Salcido, Marcel P van Daalen, Bert Vandenbroucke, Silvia Pascoli
Zdroj: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Publication Status: Preprint
Informace o vydavateli: Oxford University Press (OUP), 2025.
Rok vydání: 2025
Témata: Large scale structure formation, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Popis: Large-scale structure surveys have reported measurements of the density of matter, $\Omega _\mathrm{m}$, and the amplitude of clustering, $\sigma _8$, that are in tension with the values inferred from observations of the cosmic microwave background. While this may be a sign of new physics that slows the growth of structure at late times, strong astrophysical feedback processes could also be responsible. In this work, we argue that astrophysical processes are not independent of cosmology and that their coupling naturally leads to stronger baryonic feedback in cosmological models with suppressed structure formation or when combined with a mechanism that removes dark matter from haloes. We illustrate this with two well-motivated extensions of the Standard Model known to suppress structure formation: massive neutrinos and decaying dark matter. Our results, based on the FLAMINGO suite of hydrodynamical simulations, show that the combined effect of baryonic and non-baryonic suppression mechanisms is greater than the sum of its parts, particularly for decaying dark matter. We also show that the dependence of baryonic feedback on cosmology can be modelled as a function of the ratio $f_\mathrm{b}/c^2_\mathrm{v}\sim f_\mathrm{b}/(\Omega _\mathrm{m}\sigma _8)^{1/4}$ of the universal baryon fraction, $f_\mathrm{b}$, to a velocity-based definition of halo concentration, $c^2_\mathrm{v}$, giving an accurate fitting formula for the baryonic suppression of the matter power spectrum. Although the combination of baryonic and non-baryonic suppression mechanisms can resolve the tension, the models with neutrinos and decaying dark matter are challenged by constraints on the expansion history.
Druh dokumentu: Article
Popis souboru: application/pdf
Jazyk: English
ISSN: 1365-2966
0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staf093
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2403.12967
Přístupová URL adresa: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12967
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/537/2/2160/7958946
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf093
https://hdl.handle.net/11585/1008433
Rights: CC BY
Přístupové číslo: edsair.doi.dedup.....eb53c6e6ba0d0f414836e0a8f700cdf1
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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Abstrakt:Large-scale structure surveys have reported measurements of the density of matter, $\Omega _\mathrm{m}$, and the amplitude of clustering, $\sigma _8$, that are in tension with the values inferred from observations of the cosmic microwave background. While this may be a sign of new physics that slows the growth of structure at late times, strong astrophysical feedback processes could also be responsible. In this work, we argue that astrophysical processes are not independent of cosmology and that their coupling naturally leads to stronger baryonic feedback in cosmological models with suppressed structure formation or when combined with a mechanism that removes dark matter from haloes. We illustrate this with two well-motivated extensions of the Standard Model known to suppress structure formation: massive neutrinos and decaying dark matter. Our results, based on the FLAMINGO suite of hydrodynamical simulations, show that the combined effect of baryonic and non-baryonic suppression mechanisms is greater than the sum of its parts, particularly for decaying dark matter. We also show that the dependence of baryonic feedback on cosmology can be modelled as a function of the ratio $f_\mathrm{b}/c^2_\mathrm{v}\sim f_\mathrm{b}/(\Omega _\mathrm{m}\sigma _8)^{1/4}$ of the universal baryon fraction, $f_\mathrm{b}$, to a velocity-based definition of halo concentration, $c^2_\mathrm{v}$, giving an accurate fitting formula for the baryonic suppression of the matter power spectrum. Although the combination of baryonic and non-baryonic suppression mechanisms can resolve the tension, the models with neutrinos and decaying dark matter are challenged by constraints on the expansion history.
ISSN:13652966
00358711
DOI:10.1093/mnras/staf093