The information content of Cosmic Infrared Background anisotropies

TL;DR

This paper uses analytic halo model computations to predict the power spectrum and bispectrum of Cosmic Infrared Background anisotropies, aiming to constrain cosmological and astrophysical parameters with upcoming survey data.

Contribution

It introduces a method combining power spectrum and bispectrum analysis within the halo model to improve parameter constraints from CIB anisotropies.

Findings

Cosmological, HOD, and CIB parameters can be constrained to a few percent.

Bispectrum provides four times tighter constraints than the power spectrum.

Dust residuals minimally affect standard cosmological parameter constraints.

Abstract

We use analytic computations to predict the power spectrum as well as the bispectrum of Cosmic Infrared Background (CIB) anisotropies. Our approach is based on the halo model and takes into account the mean luminosity-mass relation. The model is used to forecast the possibility to simultaneously constrain cosmological, CIB and halo occupation distribution (HOD) parameters in the presence of foregrounds. For the analysis we use wavelengths in eight frequency channels between 200 and 900$\;\mathrm{GHz}$ with survey specifications given by Planck and LiteBird. We explore the sensitivity to the model parameters up to multipoles of $\ell =1000$ using auto- and cross-correlations between the different frequency bands. With this setting, cosmological, HOD and CIB parameters can be constrained to a few percent. Galactic dust is modeled by a power law and the shot noise contribution as a frequency dependent amplitude which are marginalized over. We find that dust residuals in the CIB maps only marginally influence constraints on standard cosmological parameters. Furthermore, the bispectrum yields tighter constraints (by a factor four in $1\sigma$ errors) on almost all model parameters while the degeneracy directions are very similar to the ones of the power spectrum. The increase in sensitivity is most pronounced for the sum of the neutrino masses. Due to the similarity of degeneracies a combination of both analysis is not needed for most parameters. This, however, might be due to the simplified bias description generally adopted in such halo model approaches.