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Constraining the growth rate by combining multiple future surveys

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2020-10-02 v4 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

The growth rate of large-scale structure provides a powerful consistency test of the standard cosmological model and a probe of possible deviations from general relativity. We use a Fisher analysis to forecast constraints on the growth rate from a combination of next-generation spectroscopic surveys. In the overlap survey volumes, we use a multi-tracer analysis to significantly reduce the effect of cosmic variance. The non-overlap individual survey volumes are included in the Fisher analysis in order to utilise the entire volume. We use the observed angular power spectrum, which naturally includes all wide-angle and lensing effects and circumvents the need for an Alcock-Paczynski correction. Cross correlations between redshift bins are included by using a novel technique to avoid computation of the sub-dominant contributions. Marginalising over the standard cosmological parameters, as well as the clustering bias in each redshift bin, we find that the precision on γ\gamma improves on the best single-tracer precision by up to \sim50\%.

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@article{arxiv.2007.04656,
  title  = {Constraining the growth rate by combining multiple future surveys},
  author = {Jan-Albert Viljoen and José Fonseca and Roy Maartens},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.04656},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Minor corrections: final accepted version

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