The observed galaxy power spectrum in General Relativity

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2022/01/061zbMATH Open1486.85024arXiv2106.08857OpenAlexW4210620891MaRDI QIDQ5863322FDOQ5863322

Authors: Emanuele Castorina, Enea Di Dio 

Publication date: 11 March 2022

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

Abstract: Measurements of the clustering of galaxies in Fourier space, and at low wavenumbers, offer a window into the early Universe via the possible presence of scale dependent bias generated by Primordial Non Gaussianites. On such large scales a Newtonian treatment of density perturbations might not be sufficient to describe the measurements, and a fully relativistic calculation should be employed. The interpretation of the data is thus further complicated by the fact that relativistic effects break statistical homogeneity and isotropy and are potentially divergent in the Infra-Red (IR). In this work we compute for the first time the ensemble average of the most used Fourier space estimator in spectroscopic surveys, including all general relativistic (GR) effects, and allowing for an arbitrary choice of angular and radial selection functions. We show that any observable is free of IR sensitivity once all the GR terms, individually divergent, are taken into account, and that this cancellation is a consequence of the presence of the Weinberg adiabatic mode as a solution to Einstein's equations. We then study the importance of GR effects, including lensing magnification, in the interpretation of the galaxy power spectrum multipoles, finding that they are in general a small, less than ten percent level, correction to the leading redshift space distortions term. This work represents the baseline for future investigations of the interplay between Primordial Non Gaussianities and GR effects on large scales and in Fourier space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.08857

zbMATH Keywords

power spectrumredshift surveyscosmological parameters from LSSNon Gaussianities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Fourier integral operators applied to PDEs (35S30) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25) Cluster algebras (13F60) Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics (81R20) Adiabatic invariants for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H11)

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• Symmetries and consistency relations in the large scale structure of the universe
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• CLASS
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Cited In (18)

• The galaxy power spectrum on the lightcone: deep, wide-angle redshift surveys and the turnover scale
• A general relativistic approach to the Navarro–Frenk–White galactic halos
• Generalization of the Kaiser Rocket effect in general relativity in the wide-angle galaxy 2-point correlation function
• Galaxy two-point correlation function in general relativity
• Periodic distribution of galaxies in generalized scalar tensor theory
• Redshift space power spectrum beyond Einstein-de Sitter kernels
• Infrared (in)sensitivity of relativistic effects in cosmological observable statistics
• Relativistic and wide-angle corrections to galaxy power spectra
• The observed number counts in luminosity distance space
• Bispectrum-window convolution via Hankel transform
• Spectral methods in general relativistic astrophysics
• The Hawking energy in a perturbed Friedmann-Lemaître universe
• Incompatibility of standard galaxy bias models in general relativity
• Large-scale structure observables in general relativity
• Large gauge transformations, local coordinates and cosmological observables
• The skewness of the distance-redshift relation in \(\Lambda\)CDM
• The onset of General Relativity: gravitationally redshifted emission lines
• Wide-angle effects in multi-tracer power spectra with Doppler corrections

Uses Software

• CLASS
• COFFE
• CLASSgal

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