Measuring Angular Diameter Distances through Halo Clustering

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2001-05-03

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0105061v2

Astrophys.J. 557 (2001) L7

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 4 figures; final version published in ApJ Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/323323

Current and upcoming wide-field surveys for weak gravitational lensing and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect will generate mass-selected catalogues of dark matter halos with internal or followup photometric redshift information. The angular power spectrum of these halos provides additional information that complements the previously-studied number counts. In particular, using the shape of the linear power spectrum as a standard ruler that is calibrated by cosmic microwave background measurements, we find that a survey of 4000 sqr. deg. and a mass threshold of 10^14 M_sun can be used to determine the comoving angular diameter distance as a function of redshift. In principle, this test also allows an absolute calibration of the distance scale and measurement of the Hubble constant. This test is largely insensitive to the details of halo mass measurements, mass function, and halo bias. Determination of these quantities would further allow a measurement of the linear growth rate of fluctuations.

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