English

Neutrino Masses, Scale-Dependent Growth, and Redshift-Space Distortions

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2017-06-28 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Massive neutrinos leave a unique signature in the large scale clustering of matter. We investigate the wavenumber dependence of the growth factor arising from neutrino masses and use a Fisher analysis to determine the aspects of a galaxy survey needed to measure this scale dependence.

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@article{arxiv.1608.08298,
  title  = {Neutrino Masses, Scale-Dependent Growth, and Redshift-Space Distortions},
  author = {Oscar F. Hernández},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.08298},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

10 pages, 2 figures. v2: a) Shot noise was added to the analysis and figure 2 was modified to include these results. b) typos corrections. c) one new reference added