Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-09-11
Astrophys.J. 550 (2001) 7-20
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
15 emulateapj pages, including 9 figures, submitted to ApJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/319732
The large-scale structure of high-redshift galaxies produces correlated anisotropy in the far-infrared background (FIRB). In regions of the sky where the thermal emission from Galactic dust is well below average, these high-redshift correlations may be the most significant source of angular fluctuation power over a wide range of angular scales, from about 7' to about 3 degrees, and frequencies, from about 400 to about 1000 GHz. The strength of this signal should allow detailed studies of the statistics of the FIRB fluctuations, including the shape of the angular power spectrum at a given frequency and the degree of coherence between FIRB maps at different frequencies. The FIRB correlations depend upon and hence constrain the redshift-dependent spectral energy distributions, number counts, and clustering bias of the galaxies and active nuclei that contribute to the background. We quantify the accuracy to which Planck and a newly proposed balloon-borne mission EDGE could constrain models of the high-redshift universe through the measurement of FIRB fluctuations. We conclude that the average bias of high-redshift galaxies could be measured to an accuracy of less than approximately 1% or, for example, separated into 4 redshift bins with about 10% accuracy.
Cooray Asantha
Eisenstein Daniel
Haiman Zoltan
Knox Lloyd
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