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Extending evolution mapping to massive neutrinos with COMET
Phys. Rev. D 112, 023520 – Published 9 July, 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/vy3h-p92n
Abstract
We introduce an extension of the evolution mapping framework to cosmological models that include massive neutrinos. The original evolution mapping framework exploits a degeneracy in the linear matter power spectrum when expressed in Mpc units, which compresses its dependence on cosmological parameters into those that affect its shape and a single extra parameter , defined as the rms linear variance in spheres of radius 12 Mpc. We show that by promoting the scalar amplitude of fluctuations, , to a shape parameter, we can additionally describe the suppression due to massive neutrinos at any redshift to sub-0.01% accuracy across a wide range of masses and for different numbers of mass eigenstates. This methodology has been integrated into the public comet package, enhancing its ability to emulate predictions of state-of-the-art perturbative models for galaxy clustering, such as the effective field theory (EFT) model. Additionally, the updated software now accommodates a broader cosmological parameter space for the emulator, enables the simultaneous generation of multiple predictions to reduce computation time, and incorporates analytic marginalization over nuisance parameters to expedite posterior estimation. Finally, we explore the impact of different infrared resummation techniques on galaxy power spectrum multipoles, demonstrating that any discrepancies can be mitigated by EFT counterterms without impacting the cosmological parameters.
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