Three-Point Statistics from a New Perspective

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2004-04-23

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0404476v1

Astrophys.J. 605 (2004) L89

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages 6 figures, ApL accepted

Scientific paper

10.1086/420894

Multipole expansion of spatial three-point statistics is introduced as a tool for investigating and displaying configuration dependence. The novel parametrization renders the relation between bi-spectrum and three-point correlation function especially transparent as a set of two-dimensional Hankel transforms. It is expected on theoretical grounds, that three-point statistics can be described accurately with only a few multipoles. In particular, we show that in the weakly non-linear regime, the multipoles of the reduced bispectrum, $Q_l$, are significant only up to quadrupole. Moreover, the non-linear bias in the weakly non-linear regime only affects the monopole order of these statistics. As a consequence, a simple, novel set of estimators can be constructed to constrain galaxy bias. In addition, the quadrupole to dipole ratio is independent of the bias, thus it becomes a novel diagnostic of the underlying theoretical assumptions: weakly non-linear gravity and perturbative local bias. To illustrate the use of our approach, we present predictions based on both power law, and CDM models. We show that the presently favoured SDSS-WMAP concordance model displays strong ``baryon bumps'' in the $Q_l$'s. Finally, we sketch out three practical techniques estimate these novel quantities: they amount to new, and for the first time edge corrected, estimators for the bispectrum.

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