Kavli Affiliate: George Efstathiou
| First 5 Authors: Calvin Preston, Alexandra Amon, George Efstathiou, ,
| Summary:
Weak galaxy lensing surveys have consistently reported low values of the
$S_8$ parameter compared to the $textit{Planck} Lambdarm{CDM}$ cosmology.
Amon & Efstathiou (2022) used KiDS-1000 cosmic shear measurements to propose
that this tension can be reconciled if the matter fluctuation spectrum is
suppressed more strongly on non-linear scales than assumed in state-of-the-art
hydrodynamical simulations. In this paper, we investigate cosmic shear data
from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 3. The non-linear suppression of the
matter power spectrum required to resolve the $S_8$ tension between DES and the
$textit{Planck} Lambdarm{CDM}$ model is not as strong as inferred using
KiDS data, but is still more extreme than predictions from recent numerical
simulations. An alternative possibility is that non-standard dark matter
contributes to the required suppression. We investigate the redshift and scale
dependence of the suppression of the matter power spectrum. If our proposed
explanation of the $S_8$ tension is correct, the required suppression must
extend into the mildly non-linear regime to wavenumbers $ksim 0.2 h {rm
Mpc}^{-1}$. In addition, all measures of $S_8$ using linear scales should agree
with the $textit{Planck} Lambdarm{CDM}$ cosmology, an expectation that will
be testable to high precision in the near future.
| Search Query: ArXiv Query: search_query=au:”George Efstathiou”&id_list=&start=0&max_results=3