Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-07-04
Astropart.Phys.26:351-366,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
33 pages, to appear in Astroparticle Physics. Discussion of Blake & Glazebrook procedure changed, minor edits to match version
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.astropartphys.2006.07.
The coupling of photons and baryons by Thomson scattering in the early universe imprints features in both the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and matter power spectra. The former have been used to constrain a host of cosmological parameters, the latter have the potential to strongly constrain the expansion history of the universe and dark energy. Key to this program is the means to localize the primordial features in observations of galaxy spectra which necessarily involve galaxy bias, non-linear evolution and redshift space distortions. We present calculations, based on mock catalogs produced from high-resolution N-body simulations, which show the range of behaviors we might expect of galaxies in the real universe. We investigate physically motivated fitting forms which include the effects of non-linearity, galaxy bias and redshift space distortions and discuss methods for analysis of upcoming data. In agreement with earlier work, we find that a survey of several Gpc^3 would constrain the sound horizon at z~1 to about 1%.
Huff Eric
Schlegel David James
Schulz A. E.
Warren Michael S.
White Martin
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