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High resolution tomography for galaxy spectroscopic surveys with angular redshift fluctuations

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2021-02-24 v2

Abstract

In the context of next-generation spectroscopic galaxy surveys, new statistics of the distribution of matter are currently being developed. Among these, we investigated the angular redshift fluctuations (ARF), which probe the information contained in the projected redshift distribution of galaxies. Relying on the Fisher formalism, we show how ARF will provide complementary cosmological information compared to traditional angular galaxy clustering. We tested both the standard ΛCDM\mathrm{\Lambda CDM} model and the wCDM\mathrm{wCDM} extension. We find that the cosmological and galaxy bias parameters express different degeneracies when inferred from ARF or from angular galaxy clustering. As such, combining both observables breaks these degeneracies and greatly decreases the marginalised uncertainties by a factor of at least two on most parameters for the ΛCDM\mathrm{\Lambda CDM} and wCDM\mathrm{wCDM} models. We find that the ARF combined with angular galaxy clustering provide a great way to probe dark energy by increasing the figure of merit of the w0w_0-waw_{\rm a} parameter set by a factor of more than ten compared to angular galaxy clustering alone. Finally, we compared ARF to the CMB lensing constraints on the galaxy bias parameters. We show that a joint analysis of ARF and angular galaxy clustering improves constraints by 40%\sim 40\% on galaxy bias compared to a joint analysis of angular galaxy clustering and CMB lensing.

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@article{arxiv.2007.14412,
  title  = {High resolution tomography for galaxy spectroscopic surveys with angular redshift fluctuations},
  author = {Louis Legrand and Carlos Hernández-Monteagudo and Marian Douspis and Nabila Aghanim and Raúl E. Angulo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.14412},
  year   = {2021}
}

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14 pages, 21 figures, published in A&A

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