Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-08-03
Astrophys.J.640:8-17,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
11 pages, 7 figures, ApJ accepted, references added, expanded discussion in Sec. 3.2
Scientific paper
10.1086/500077
We consider cosmological applications of galaxy number density correlations to be inferred from future deep and wide multi-band optical surveys. We mostly focus on very large scales as a probe of possible features in the primordial power spectrum. We find the proposed survey of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope may be competitive with future all-sky CMB experiments over a broad range of scales. On very large scales the inferred power spectrum is robust to photometric redshift errors, and, given a sufficient number density of galaxies, to angular variations in dust extinction and photometric calibration errors. We also consider other applications, such as constraining dark energy with the two CMB-calibrated standard rulers in the matter power spectrum, and controlling the effect of photometric redshift errors to facilitate the interpretation of cosmic shear data. We find that deep photometric surveys over wide area can provide constraints that are competitive with spectroscopic surveys in small volumes.
Knox Lloyd
Margoniner Vera
Tyson Anthony J.
Zhan Hu
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