Galaxy shape statistics in the effective field theory

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2021/05/061zbMATH Open1485.85021arXiv2012.04114OpenAlexW3165392709MaRDI QIDQ5028149FDOQ5028149

Authors: Zvonimir Vlah, Nora Elisa Chisari, Fabian Schmidt 

Publication date: 8 February 2022

Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Intrinsic galaxy alignments yield an important contribution to the observed statistics of galaxy shapes. The general bias expansion for galaxy sizes and shapes in three dimensions has been recently described by Vlah, Chisari & Schmidt using the general perturbative effective field theory (EFT) framework, in analogy to the clustering of galaxies. In this work, we present a formalism that uses the properties of spherical tensors to project galaxy shapes onto the observed sky in the flat-sky approximation and compute the two-point functions at next-to-leading order as well as the leading-order three-point functions of galaxy shapes and number counts. The resulting expressions are given in forms that are convenient for efficient numerical implementation. For a source redshift distribution typical of Stage IV surveys, we find that that nonlinear intrinsic alignment contributions to galaxy shape correlations become relevant at angular wavenumbers $lgtrsim100$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.04114

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zbMATH Keywords

gravitational lensingpower spectrumweak gravitational lensinggalaxy surveys

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15) Effective quantum field theories (81T12)

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• Weak gravitational lensing
• Large-scale galaxy bias
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