Large scale bias in the universe. 2. Redshift space bispectrum
Jun, 1998
10 pages
Published in:
- Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 300 (1998) 747-756
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- astro-ph/9806028 [astro-ph]
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Abstract: (arXiv)
The determination of the density parameter from the large-scale distribution of galaxies is one of the major goals of modern cosmology. However, if galaxies are biased tracers of the underlying mass distribution, linear perturbation theory leads to a degeneracy between and the linear bias parameter , and the density parameter cannot be estimated. In Matarrese, Verde & Heavens (1997) we developed a method based on second-order perturbation theory to use the bispectrum to lift this degeneracy by measuring the bias parameter in an -independent way. The formalism was developed assuming that one has perfect information on the positions of galaxies in three dimensions. In galaxy redshift surveys, the three-dimensional information is imperfect, because of the contaminating effects of peculiar velocities, and the resulting clustering pattern in redshift space is distorted. In this paper, we combine second-order perturbation theory with a model for collapsed, virialised structures, to extend the method to redshift space, and demonstrate that the method should be successful in determining with reasonable accuracy the bias parameter from state-of-the-art surveys such as the Anglo-Australian 2 degree field survey and the Sloan digital sky survey.References(0)
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