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SIMULATIONS OF BARYON ACOUSTIC OSCILLATIONS. II. COVARIANCE MATRIX OF THE MATTER POWER SPECTRUM

SIMULATIONS OF BARYON ACOUSTIC OSCILLATIONS. II. COVARIANCE MATRIX OF THE MATTER POWER SPECTRUM

We use 5000 cosmological N-body simulations of 1 h−3 Gpc3 box for the concordance ΛCDM model in order to study the sampling variances of a nonlinear matter power spectrum. We show that the non-Gaussian errors can be important even on large length scales relevant for baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs). Our …