Impact of Dark Matter Substructure on the Matter and Weak Lensing Power Spectra.pdfVIP

DRAFT VERSION FEBRUARY 2, 2008 A Preprint typeset using LT X style emulateapj v. 6/22/04 E IMPACT OF DARK MATTER SUBSTRUCTURE ON THE MATTER AND WEAK LENSING POWER SPECTRA BRADLEY HAGAN 1 , CHUNG -PEI MA2 , ANDREY V. KRAVTSOV3 Draft version February 2, 2008 ABSTRACT We explore the effect of substructure in dark matter halos on the power spectrum and bispectrum of matter fluctuations and weak lensing shear. By experimenting with substructure in a cosmological N = 5123 simu- lation, we find that when a larger fraction of the host halo mass is in subhalos, the resulting power spectrum has less power at 1 k 100h Mpc− 1 and more power at k 100h Mpc− 1. We explain this effect using an analytic halo model including subhalos, which shows that the 1 k 100h Mpc− 1 regime depends sensitively 5 on the radial distribution of subhalo centers while the interior structure of subhalos is important at k 100h 0 Mpc− 1. The corresponding effect due to substructures on the weak lensing power spectrum is up to ∼ 11% at 0 4 angular scale l 10 . Predicting the nonlinear power spectrum to a few percent accuracy for future surveys 2 would therefore require large cosmological simulations that also have exquisite numerical resolution to model l accurately the survivals of dark matter subhalos in the tidal fields of their hosts. u J Subject headings: cosmology: theory — dark matter — large-scale structure of the