Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-06-17
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.312:774,2000
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
7 pages, 11 figures, replace to match accepted version, MNRAS in press
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03186.x
The two point angular correlation function is an excellent measure of structure in the universe. To extract from it the three dimensional power spectrum, one must invert Limber's Equation. Here we perform this inversion using a Bayesian prior constraining the smoothness of the power spectrum. Among other virtues, this technique allows for the possibility that the estimates of the angular correlation function are correlated from bin to bin. The output of this technique are estimators for the binned power spectrum and a full covariance matrix. Angular correlations mix small and large scales but after the inversion, small scale data can be trivially eliminated, thereby allowing for realistic constraints on theories of large scale structure. We analyze the APM catalogue as an example, comparing our results with previous results. As a byproduct of these tests, we find -- in rough agreement with previous work -- that APM places stringent constraints on Cold Dark Matter inspired models, with the shape parameter constrained to be $0.25\pm 0.04$ (using data with wavenumber $k \le 0.1 h{\rm Mpc}^{-1}$). This range of allowed values use the full power spectrum covariance matrix, but assumes negligible covariance in the off-diagonal angular correlation error matrix, which is estimated with a large angular resolution of 0.5degrees (in the range 0.5 and 20 degrees).
Dodelson Scott
Gaztanaga Enrique
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