Redshift Drift fluctuations from N-body simulations

Abstract

Measurements of the redshift drift -- the real time variation of the redshift of distance sources -- are expected in the next couple of decades using next generation facilities such as the ANDES spectrograph at the ELT and the SKAO survey. The unprecedented precision of such observations will demand precise theoretical and numerical modeling of the effect in the standard $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. In this work, we use the Gadget4 $N$-body code to simulate the redshift drift and its fluctuations in $\Lambda$CDM cosmologies, deriving the corresponding power spectra from a simulation with $1024^3$ particles in a $1\textrm{Gpc}\,h^{-1}$ box. Our results provide an estimate for the distribution and amplitude of the fluctuations and the spectra, which match previous work in the literature using Einstein-Boltzmann solvers to within an order of magnitude. Our work provides a methodology for performing statistical analysis of the redshift drift effect and deriving its fluctuation power spectra from future large scale surveys.