The power spectrum of galaxies in the 2dF 100k redshift survey

Details The power spectrum of galaxies in the 2dF 100k redshift survey The power spectrum of galaxies in the 2dF 100k redshift survey

2001-11-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0111575v3

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.335:887-908,2002

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Replaced to match accepted MNRAS version, with new radial/angular systematics plot and sigma8 typo corrected. High-res figures

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05622.x

We compute the real-space power spectrum and the redshift-space distortions of galaxies in the 2dF 100k galaxy redshift survey using pseudo-Karhunen-Loeve eigenmodes and the stochastic bias formalism. Our results agree well with those published by the 2dFGRS team, and have the added advantage of producing easy-to-interpret uncorrelated minimum-variance measurements of the galaxy-galaxy, galaxy-velocity and velocity-velocity power spectra in 27 k-bands, with narrow and well-behaved window functions in the range 0.01h/Mpc < k < 0.8h/Mpc. We find no significant detection of baryonic wiggles, although our results are consistent with a standard flat Omega_Lambda=0.7 ``concordance'' model and previous tantalizing hints of baryonic oscillations. We measure the galaxy-matter correlation coefficient r > 0.4 and the redshift-distortion parameter beta=0.49+/-0.16 for r=1 (beta=0.47+/- 0.16 without finger-of-god compression). Since this is an apparent-magnitude limited sample, luminosity-dependent bias may cause a slight red-tilt in the power spectum. A battery of systematic error tests indicate that the survey is not only impressive in size, but also unusually clean, free of systematic errors at the level to which our tests are sensitive. Our measurements and window functions are available at http://www.hep.upenn.edu/~max/2df.html together with the survey mask, radial selection function and uniform subsample of the survey that we have constructed.

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