Large-scale 3D galaxy correlation function and non-Gaussianity
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA 91109 (United States)
- Physics Department, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town 7535 (South Africa)
We investigate the properties of the 2-point galaxy correlation function at very large scales, including all geometric and local relativistic effects --- wide-angle effects, redshift space distortions, Doppler terms and Sachs-Wolfe type terms in the gravitational potentials. The general three-dimensional correlation function has a nonzero dipole and octupole, in addition to the even multipoles of the flat-sky limit. We study how corrections due to primordial non-Gaussianity and General Relativity affect the multipolar expansion, and we show that they are of similar magnitude (when f{sub NL} is small), so that a relativistic approach is needed. Furthermore, we look at how large-scale corrections depend on the model for the growth rate in the context of modified gravity, and we discuss how a modified growth can affect the non-Gaussian signal in the multipoles.
- OSTI ID:
- 22373407
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2014, Issue 08; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1475-7516
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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