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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 505, Issue 1, Pages 628-641Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab1199
Keywords
methods: statistical; cosmological parameters; cosmology: theory; dark energy; distance scale; large-scale structure of Universe
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Funding
- DOE [DE-SC0021165, DE-SC0011840]
- NASA ROSES [12-EUCLID12-0004, 15-WFIRST15-0008]
- Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia [FR 19-498, FR-19-8306]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0021165] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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This study explores the use of galaxy N-point correlation functions as standard rulers for distance-redshift relationship constraints, demonstrating that reconstruction of the initial density field can offer better constraints than analyzing higher order correlation functions of the non-linear field. Using joint analysis of two and three-point correlation functions can sometimes provide better constraints than those obtained from the initial power spectrum.
The shapes of galaxy N-point correlation functions can be used as standard rulers to constrain the distance-redshift relationship. The cosmological density fields traced by late-time galaxy formation are initially nearly Gaussian, and hence, all the cosmological information can be extracted from their two-point correlation function. Subsequent non-linear evolution under gravity, as well as halo and then galaxy formation, generates higher order correlation functions. Since the mapping of the initial to the final density field is, on large scales, invertible, it is often claimed that the information content of the initial field's power spectrum is equal to that of all the higher order functions of the final, non-linear field. This claim implies that reconstruction of the initial density field from the non-linear field renders analysis of higher order correlation functions of the latter superfluous. We show that this claim is false when the N-point functions are used as standard rulers. Constraints available from joint analysis of the two and three-point correlation functions can, in some cases, exceed those offered by the initial power spectrum. We provide a mathematical justification for this claim and demonstrate it using a large suite of N-body simulations. In particular, we show that for the z = 0 real-space matter field in the limit of vanishing shot-noise, taking modes up to k(max) = 0.2h Mpc(-1), using the bispectrum alone offers a factor of 2 reduction in the variance on the cosmic distance scale relative to that available from the linear power spectrum.
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