The flat-sky approximation to galaxy number counts — redshift space correlation function

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2021/07/045MaRDI QIDQ5029557zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Goran Jelic-Cizmek

Publication date 14 February 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.01878

zbMATH Keywords

galaxy clusteringgalaxy clustersgravitational lensing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Mono-, di- and multipole moments (EM and other), gyromagnetic relations (81V60) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15)

Abstract: We study the flat-sky approximation for galaxy number counts including relativistic effects, and assess its performance and accuracy with respect to the full-sky result. We find an agreement of up to 5% for the local and lensing contributions to the 2-point correlation function and its multipoles at $z>0.5$, and up to 1% for the multipoles alone at $z>1$ and separations $lesssim250$ Mpc/$h$, with a speed-up of over a factor of 1000. Using a semi-analytic method, which has been implemented in a new version of the code COFFE, along with the Limber approximation for the integrated contributions, we further increase the performance, allowing the computation of the flat-sky multipoles to be done over 10000 times faster than in the full-sky calculation, which could be used to greatly speed-up Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling for cosmological parameter estimation.

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Describes a project that uses

Uses Software

• COFFE
• MathOverflow
• EuclidEmulator
• CLASS
• DLMF

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