Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-05-26
Astrophys.J. 614 (2004) 527-532
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
13 pages, 1 figure. To appear in ApJ (Oct. 20th, 2004). References added. Minor revisons to match the version in press
Scientific paper
10.1086/423838
The three-point correlation function (3PCF) can now be measured in large galaxy redshift surveys, but in three dimensions its interpretation is complicated by the presence of redshift-space distortions. I investigate the projected 3PCF, where these distortions are eliminated by integrating over the redshift dimension, as is commonly done for the two-point correlation function. The calculation of the projected 3PCF from the real-space, three-dimensional bispectrum is greatly simplified by expanding both quantities in Fourier components, analogous to Szapudi's (2004) expansion of the three-dimensional quantities in multipole components. In the weakly nonlinear regime, the bispectrum can be well represented by the first few Fourier components. There is a well-known relation between the reduced 3PCFs of matter and galaxies in the weakly nonlinear regime, which can be used to infer galaxy bias factors if the real-space three-dimensional galaxy correlation functions (two-point and three-point) can be measured. I show that the same relation holds for the reduced {\it projected} 3PCFs if these are properly defined. These results should aid determinations of galaxy bias from large redshift surveys by eliminating the complication of redshift-space distortions.
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