The relativistic galaxy number counts in the weak field approximation

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/09/058zbMATH Open1493.85004arXiv2004.07916OpenAlexW3103220611MaRDI QIDQ5070965FDOQ5070965

Authors: Enea Di Dio, Florian Beutler 

Publication date: 14 April 2022

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

Abstract: We present a novel approach to compute systematically the relativistic projection effects at any order in perturbation theory within the weak field approximation. In this derivation the galaxy number counts is written completely in terms of the redshift perturbation. The relativistic effects break the symmetry along the line-of-sight and they source, contrarily to the standard perturbation theory, the odd multipoles of the matter power spectrum or 2-point correlation function, providing a unique signature for their detection in Large Scale Structure surveys. We show that our approach agrees with previous derivations (up to third order) of relativistic effects and, for the first time, we derive a model for the transverse Doppler effect. Moreover, we show that in the Newtonian limit this approach is consistent with standard perturbation theory at any order.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07916

zbMATH Keywords

power spectrumcosmological perturbation theorygalaxy clusteringredshift surveys

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of association (correlation, canonical correlation, etc.) (62H20) Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15) Cluster sets, prime ends, boundary behavior (30D40)

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Cited In (8)

• The observed galaxy power spectrum in General Relativity
• The flat-sky approximation to galaxy number counts — redshift space correlation function
• From matter to galaxies: general relativistic bias for the one-loop bispectrum
• Galaxy number-count dipole and superhorizon fluctuations
• Testing the equivalence principle on cosmological scales using the odd multipoles of galaxy cross-power spectrum and bispectrum
• The skewness of the distance-redshift relation in \(\Lambda\)CDM
• Wide-angle effects in multi-tracer power spectra with Doppler corrections
• Cosmological number counts in Einstein and Jordan frames

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