Université de GenèveDépartement de Physique ThéoriqueCAP Genève

On the halo velocity bias

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Date: 
1. August 2014
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M. Biagetti, V. Desjacques, A.Kehagias and A. Riotto.[arXiv:1408.0293].
Summary: 

It has been recently shown that any halo velocity bias present in the initial conditions does not decay to unity, in agreement with predictions from peak theory. However, this is at odds with the standard formalism based on the coupled fluids approximation for the coevolution of dark matter and halos. Starting from conservation laws in phase space, we discuss why the fluid momentum conservation equation for the biased tracers needs to be modified in accordance with the change advocated in Baldauf, Desjacques & Seljak (2014). Our findings indicate that a correct description of the halo properties should properly take into account peak constraints when starting from the Vlasov-Boltzmann equation.

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