期刊
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 420, 期 4, 页码 2737-2755出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.19680.x
关键词
galaxies: clusters: general; galaxies: statistics; large-scale structure of Universe
资金
- Intra-European Marie Curie fellowship [221783]
- MCMCLYMAN
- Cluster of Excellence for Fundamental Physics on the Origin and Structure of the Universe
In this work we investigate the multivariate statistical description of the matter distribution in the non-linear regime. We introduce the multivariate Edgeworth expansion of the lognormal distribution to model the cosmological matter field. Such a technique could be useful to generate and reconstruct three-dimensional non-linear cosmological density fields with the information of higher order correlation functions. We explicitly calculate the expansion up to third order in perturbation theory making use of the multivariate Hermite polynomials up to sixth order. The probability distribution function for the matter field includes at this level the two-point, the three-point and the four-point correlation functions. We use the hierarchical model to formulate the higher order correlation functions based on combinations of the two-point correlation function. This permits us to find compact expressions for the skewness and kurtosis terms of the expanded lognormal field which can be efficiently computed. The method is, however, flexible to incorporate arbitrary higher order correlation functions which have analytical expressions. The applications of such a technique can be especially useful to perform weak-lensing or neutral hydrogen 21-cm line tomography, as well as to directly use the galaxy distribution or the Lyman a forest to study structure formation.
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