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Can Geometric Test Probe the Cosmic Equation of State ?

Astrophysics 2009-11-06 v1

Abstract

Feasibility of the geometric test as a probe of the cosmic equation of state of the dark energy is discussed assuming the future 2dF QSO sample. We examine sensitivity of the QSO two-point correlation functions, which are theoretically computed incorporating the light-cone effect and the redshift distortions, as well as the nonlinear effect, to a bias model whose evolution is phenomenologically parameterized. It is shown that the correlation functions are sensitive on a mean amplitude of the bias and not to the speed of the redshift evolution. We will also demonstrate that an optimistic geometric test could suffer from confusion that a signal from the cosmological model can be confused with that from a stochastic character of the bias.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0101172,
  title  = {Can Geometric Test Probe the Cosmic Equation of State ?},
  author = {Kazuhiro Yamamoto and Hiroaki Nishioka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0101172},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

11 pages, including 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL