GALACTIC ANGULAR MOMENTA AND ANGULAR MOMENTUM CORRELATIONS IN THE COSMOLOGICAL LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE

DOI10.1142/S0218271809014388zbMATH Open1173.85002arXiv0808.0203OpenAlexW2125732909MaRDI QIDQ3636470FDOQ3636470

Björn Malte Schäfer

Publication date: 30 June 2009

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: I review the theory of angular momentum acquisition of galaxies by tidal torquing, the resulting angular momentum distribution, the angular momentum correlation function and discuss the implications of angular momentum alignments on weak lensing measurements: Starting from linear models for tidal torquing I summarise perturbative approaches and the results from n-body simulations of cosmic structure formation. Then I continue to discuss the validity of decompositions of the tidal shear and inertia fields, the effects of angular momentum biasing, the applicability of parameterised angular momentum correlation models and the consequences of angular momentum correlations for shape alignments. I compile the result of observations of shape alignments in recent galaxy surveys as well as in n-body simulations. Finally, I review the contamination of weak lensing surveys by spin-induced shape alignments and methods for suppressing this contamination.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.0203

zbMATH Keywords

gravitational lensingcosmologylarge-scale structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to astronomy and astrophysics (85-02)

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• Field-level inference of galaxy intrinsic alignment from the SDSS-III BOSS survey
• Environmental dependence of ellipticity correlation functions of intrinsic alignments
• The intrinsic alignment of galaxies and its impact on weak gravitational lensing in an era of precision cosmology

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