Galaxy surveys, inhomogeneous reionization, and dark energy

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2006-04-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0604358v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.374:159-167,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 8 figures, version accepted by MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.11131.x

We examine the effect of inhomogeneous reionization on the galaxy power spectrum and the consequences for probing dark energy. To model feedback during reionization, we apply an ansatz setting the galaxy overdensity proportional to the underlying ionization field. Thus, inhomogeneous reionization may leave an imprint in the galaxy power spectrum. We evolve this imprint to low redshift and use the Fisher-matrix formalism to assess the effect on parameter estimation. We show that a combination of low- (z=0.3) and high- (z=3) redshift galaxy surveys can constrain the size of cosmological HII regions during reionization. This imprint can also cause confusion when using baryon oscillations or other features of the galaxy power spectrum to probe the dark energy. We show that when bubbles are large, and hence detectable, our ability to constrain w can be degraded by up to 50%. When bubbles are small, the imprint has little or no effect on measuring dark-energy parameters.

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