Cosmological Parameter Estimation with Large Scale Structure Observations
Aug 28, 2013
25 pages
Published in:
- JCAP 01 (2014) 042
- Published: Jan 27, 2014
e-Print:
- 1308.6186 [astro-ph.CO]
Report number:
- LAPTH-037-13,
- CERN-PH-TH-2013-155
Experiments:
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Abstract: (IOP)
We estimate the sensitivity of future galaxy surveys to cosmological parameters, using the redshift dependent angular power spectra of galaxy number counts, Cℓ(z1,z2), calculated with all relativistic corrections at first order in perturbation theory.We pay special attention to the redshift dependence of the non-linearity scale and present Fisher matrix forecasts for Euclid-like and DES-like galaxy surveys. We compare the standard P(k) analysis with the new Cℓ(z1,z2) method. We show that for surveys with photometric redshifts the new analysis performs significantly better than the P(k) analysis. For spectroscopic redshifts, however, thelarge number of redshift bins which would beneeded to fully profit from the redshift information, is severely limited by shot noise.We also identify surveys which can measure the lensing contribution and we study the monopole, C0(z1,z2).Note:
- 26 pages, 11 figures; few typos in published version corrected
- power spectrum
- redshift surveys
- cosmological parameters from LSS
- redshift: dependence
- galaxy: power spectrum
- power spectrum: angular dependence
- correction: relativistic
- perturbation theory
- sensitivity
- structure
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