Hierarchical clustering and the BAO signature

Wojciech A. Hellwing, Roman Juszkiewicz, Rien van de Weygaert, Maciej Bilicki

Published 2013-02-20, updated 2013-02-22Version 2

In this contribution we present the preliminary results regarding the non-linear BAO signal in higher-order statistics of the cosmic density field. We use ensembles of N-body simulations to show that the non-linear evolution changes the amplitudes of the BAO signal, but has a negligible effect on the scale of the BAO feature. The latter observation accompanied by the fact that the BAO feature amplitude roughly doubles as one moves to higher orders, suggests that the higher-order correlation amplitudes can be used as probe of the BAO signal.