Beyond the plane-parallel approximation for redshift surveys

Castorina, Emanuele; White, Martin

doi:10.1093/mnras/sty410

Title: Beyond the plane-parallel approximation for redshift surveys

Journal Article · Mon Feb 19 00:00:00 EST 2018 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty410· OSTI ID:1461164

Castorina, Emanuele ^[1];

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Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Redshift -space distortions privilege the location of the observer in cosmological redshift surveys, breaking the translational symmetry of the underlying theory. This violation of statistical homogeneity has consequences for the modelling of clustering observables, leading to what are frequently called `wide-angle effects'. We study these effects analytically, computing their signature in the clustering of the multipoles in configuration and Fourier space. We take into account both physical wide-angle contributions as well as the terms generated by the galaxy selection function. Similar considerations also affect the way power spectrum estimators are constructed. We quantify in an analytical way the biases that enter and clarify the relation between what we measure and the underlying theoretical modelling. The presence of an angular window function is also discussed. Motivated by this analysis, we present new estimators for the three dimensional Cartesian power spectrum and bispectrum multipoles written in terms of spherical Fourier-Bessel coefficients. We show how the latter have several interesting properties, allowing in particular a clear separation between angular and radial modes.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231; SC0017860; 1713791

OSTI ID:: 1461164

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1593675

Journal Information:: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 476, Issue 4; Related Information: © 2018 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society.; ISSN 0035-8711

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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