Detecting the relativistic galaxy bispectrum

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/03/065zbMATH Open1490.85008arXiv1911.02398OpenAlexW2984236448MaRDI QIDQ5068441FDOQ5068441

Authors: Roy Maartens, Sheean Jolicoeur, Obinna Umeh, Eline M. de Weerd, C. Clarkson, Stefano Camera 

Publication date: 6 April 2022

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

Abstract: The Fourier-space galaxy bispectrum is complex, with the imaginary part arising from leading-order relativistic corrections, due to Doppler, gravitational redshift and related line-of-sight effects in redshift space. The detection of the imaginary part of the bispectrum is potentially a smoking gun signal of relativistic contributions. We investigate whether next-generation spectroscopic surveys could make such a detection. For a Stage IV spectroscopic $Halpha$ survey similar to Euclid, we find that the cumulative signal to noise of this relativistic signature is $mathcalO(10)$. Long-mode relativistic effects couple to short-mode Newtonian effects in the galaxy bispectrum, but not in the galaxy power spectrum. This is the basis for detectability of relativistic effects in the bispectrum of a single galaxy survey, whereas the power spectrum requires multiple galaxy surveys to detect the corresponding signal.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02398

zbMATH Keywords

cosmological perturbation theoryredshift surveyscosmological parameters from LSS

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Signal detection and filtering (aspects of stochastic processes) (60G35) Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15)

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