An EFT description of galaxy intrinsic alignments

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/01/025MaRDI QIDQ5067807zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zvonimir Vlah, Nora Elisa Chisari, Fabian Schmidt

Publication date 4 April 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.08085

zbMATH Keywords

baryon acoustic oscillationsgravitational lensingpower spectrumredshift surveys

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Homotopy equivalences in algebraic topology (55P10) Measures of association (correlation, canonical correlation, etc.) (62H20) Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15)

Abstract: We present a general perturbative effective field theory (EFT) description of galaxy shape correlations, which are commonly known as intrinsic alignments. This rigorous approach extends current analytical modelling strategies in that it only relies on the equivalence principle. We present our results in terms of three-dimensional statistics for two- and three-point functions of both galaxy shapes and number counts. In case of the two-point function, we recover the well-known linear alignment result at leading order, but also present the full next-to-leading order expressions. In case of the three-point function we present leading order results for all the auto- and cross-correlations of galaxy shapes and densities. We use a spherical tensor basis to decompose the tensor perturbations in different helicity modes, which allows us to make use of isotropy and parity properties in the correlators. Combined with the results on projection presented in a forthcoming companion paper, our framework is directly applicable to accounting for intrinsic alignment contamination in weak lensing surveys, and to extracting cosmological information from intrinsic alignments.

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