%0 Generic %1 lepori2021cosmological %A Lepori, Francesca %A Adamek, Julian %A Durrer, Ruth %D 2021 %K library %T Cosmological Simulations of Number Counts %U http://arxiv.org/abs/2106.01347 %X In this paper we present for the first time the angular power spectra $C_\ell(z,z')$ for number counts from relativistic N-body simulations. We use the relativistic N-body code gevolution with its exact integration of lightlike geodesics which include all relativistic scalar contributions to the number counts. We compare our non-perturbative numerical results with the results from CLASS using the Halofit approximation for the non-linear matter power spectrum. We find that the Halofit approximation is excellent for both, the density field and the convergence, but it cannot accurately model redshift-space distortions. We also find that the largest contribution to the unequal-redshift power spectra is the cross-correlation of the density and the lensing contribution to the number count, especially for redshift bins that are far apart. Correlating the number counts with the convergence map we find that the signal is dominated by the lensing-lensing term when the convergence field redshift is not higher than the number count one, while it is dominated by the density-lensing term in the opposite case. In the present study, the issue of galaxy bias is deliberately left aside by considering only unbiased samples of matter particles from the simulations.

@misc{lepori2021cosmological, abstract = {In this paper we present for the first time the angular power spectra $C_\ell(z,z')$ for number counts from relativistic N-body simulations. We use the relativistic N-body code gevolution with its exact integration of lightlike geodesics which include all relativistic scalar contributions to the number counts. We compare our non-perturbative numerical results with the results from CLASS using the Halofit approximation for the non-linear matter power spectrum. We find that the Halofit approximation is excellent for both, the density field and the convergence, but it cannot accurately model redshift-space distortions. We also find that the largest contribution to the unequal-redshift power spectra is the cross-correlation of the density and the lensing contribution to the number count, especially for redshift bins that are far apart. Correlating the number counts with the convergence map we find that the signal is dominated by the lensing-lensing term when the convergence field redshift is not higher than the number count one, while it is dominated by the density-lensing term in the opposite case. In the present study, the issue of galaxy bias is deliberately left aside by considering only unbiased samples of matter particles from the simulations.}, added-at = {2021-06-03T06:36:18.000+0200}, author = {Lepori, Francesca and Adamek, Julian and Durrer, Ruth}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2053c16fb68597897526abd220d07855e/gpkulkarni}, description = {Cosmological Simulations of Number Counts}, interhash = {936b6e6fb6557f89229ca06932b1913e}, intrahash = {053c16fb68597897526abd220d07855e}, keywords = {library}, note = {cite arxiv:2106.01347Comment: 25 pages, 9 figures. Comments are welcome}, timestamp = {2021-06-03T06:36:18.000+0200}, title = {Cosmological Simulations of Number Counts}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2106.01347}, year = 2021 }