Fast full N-body simulations of generic modified gravity: conformal coupling models

Ruan, Cheng-Zong; Hernández-Aguayo, César; Li, Baojiu; Arnold, Christian; Baugh, Carlton M; Klypin, Anatoly; Prada, Francisco

Abstract

We present mg-glam, a code developed for the very fast production of full N-body cosmological simulations in modified gravity (MG) models. We describe the implementation, numerical tests and first results of a large suite of cosmological simulations for three classes of MG models with conformal coupling terms: the f(R) gravity, symmetron and coupled quintessence models. Derived from the parallel particle-mesh code glam, mg-glamincorporates an efficient multigrid relaxation technique to solve the characteristic nonlinear partial differential equations of these models. For f(R) gravity, we have included new variants to diversify the model behaviour, and we have tailored the relaxation algorithms to these to maintain high computational efficiency. In a companion paper, we describe versions of this code developed for derivative coupling MG models, including the Vainshtein- and K-mouflage-type models. mg-glam can model the prototypes for most MG models of interest, and is broad and versatile. The code is highly optimised, with a tremendous speedup of a factor of more than a hundred compared with earlier N-body codes, while still giving accurate predictions of the matter power spectrum and dark matter halo abundance. mg-glam is ideal for the generation of large numbers of MG simulations that can be used in the construction of mock galaxy catalogues and the production of accurate emulators for ongoing and future galaxy surveys.

Citation

Ruan, C., Hernández-Aguayo, C., Li, B., Arnold, C., Baugh, C. M., Klypin, A., & Prada, F. (2022). Fast full N-body simulations of generic modified gravity: conformal coupling models. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2022(5), Article 18. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2022/05/018

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Mar 16, 2022
• Online Publication Date: May 11, 2022
• Publication Date: 2022
• Deposit Date: Oct 27, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 7, 2022
• Journal: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
• Publisher: IOP Publishing
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 2022
• Issue: 5
• Article Number: 18
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2022/05/018