Measuring the power spectrum of density fluctuations at intermediate redshift with X-ray background observations

Details Measuring the power spectrum of density fluctuations at intermediate redshift with X-ray background observations Measuring the power spectrum of density fluctuations at intermediate redshift with X-ray background observations

1997-05-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9705180v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Minor changes made. Accepted in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01148.x

The precision of intensity measurements of the extragalactic X-ray Background (XRB) on an angular scale of about a degree is dominated by spatial fluctuations caused by source confusion noise. X-ray source counts at the flux level responsible for these fluctuations will soon be accurately measured by new missions and it will then be possible to detect the weaker fluctuations caused by the clustering of the fainter, more distant sources which produce the bulk of the XRB. We show here that measurements of these excess fluctuations at the level of 0.2 per cent are within reach, improving by an order of magnitude on present upper limits. Together with the redshift evolution of the X-ray volume emissivity in the Universe, this can be used to measure the power spectrum of the density fluctuations at comoving wavevectors 0.01-0.1 h/Mpc at z=1-2 with a sensitivity better than the predictions from large-scale structure models. A relatively simple X-ray experiment, carried out by a large-area proportional counter with a 0.5-2 deg^2 collimated field-of-view scanning the whole sky a few times, would be able to determine the power spectrum of the density fluctuations near its expected peak in wavevector with an accuracy better than 10 per cent.

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