New era in likelihood analyses of the Local Group acceleration

Details New era in likelihood analyses of the Local Group acceleration New era in likelihood analyses of the Local Group acceleration

2002-02-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0202296v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

2 pages, 2 figures, uses newpasp.sty; to appear in "A New Era In Cosmology" (ASP Conference Series) eds. T. Shanks and N. Metc

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In maximum-likelihood analyses of the Local Group (LG) acceleration, the object describing nonlinear effects is the coherence function (CF), i.e. the cross-correlation coefficient of the Fourier modes of the velocity and gravity fields. We study the CF both analytically, using perturbation theory, and numerically, using a hydrodynamic code. The dependence of the function on Omega_m and the shape of the power spectrum is very weak. The only cosmological parameter that the CF is strongly sensitive to is the normalization sigma_8 of the underlying density field. Perturbative approximation for the function turns out to be accurate as long as sigma_8 is smaller than about 0.3. For higher normalizations we provide an analytical fit for the CF as a function of sigma_8 and the wavevector. The characteristic decoherence scale which our formula predicts is an order of magnitude smaller than that determined by Strauss et al. This implies that present likelihood constraints on cosmological parameters from analyses of the LG acceleration are significantly tighter than hitherto reported.

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