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Halo model and halo properties in Galileon gravity cosmologies

Barreira, A.; Li, B.; Hellwing, W.A.; Lombriser, L.; Baugh, C.M.; Pascoli, S.

Authors

A. Barreira

W.A. Hellwing

L. Lombriser



Abstract

We investigate the performance of semi-analytical modelling of large-scale structure in Galileon gravity cosmologies using results from N-body simulations. We focus on the Cubic and Quartic Galileon models that provide a reasonable fit to CMB, SNIa and BAO data. We demonstrate that the Sheth-Tormen mass function and linear halo bias can be calibrated to provide a very good fit to our simulation results. We also find that the halo concentration-mass relation is well fitted by a power law. The nonlinear matter power spectrum computed in the halo model approach is found to be inaccurate in the mildly nonlinear regime, but captures reasonably well the effects of the Vainshtein screening mechanism on small scales. In the Cubic model, the screening mechanism hides essentially all of the effects of the fifth force inside haloes. In the case of the Quartic model, the screening mechanism leaves behind residual modifications to gravity, which make the effective gravitational strength time-varying and smaller than the standard value. Compared to normal gravity, this causes a deficiency of massive haloes and leads to a weaker matter clustering on small scales. For both models, we show that there are realistic halo occupation distributions of Luminous Red Galaxies that can match both the observed large-scale clustering amplitude and the number density of these galaxies.

Citation

Barreira, A., Li, B., Hellwing, W., Lombriser, L., Baugh, C., & Pascoli, S. (2014). Halo model and halo properties in Galileon gravity cosmologies. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2014(04), Article 029. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2014/04/029

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Apr 30, 2014
Deposit Date Jan 13, 2014
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Publisher IOP Publishing
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 2014
Issue 04
Article Number 029
DOI https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2014/04/029
Keywords Modified gravity, Cosmological simulations, Power spectrum, Dark energy theory.

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