English

Relativistic effects and primordial non-Gaussianity in the galaxy bias

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2011-04-20 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

When dealing with observables, one needs to generalize the bias relation between the observed galaxy fluctuation field to the underlying matter distribution in a gauge-invariant way. We provide such relation at second-order in perturbation theory adopting the local Eulerian bias model and starting from the observationally motivated uniform-redshift gauge. Our computation includes the presence of primordial non-Gaussianity. We show that large scale-dependent relativistic effects in the Eulerian bias arise independently from the presence of some primordial non-Gaussianity. Furthermore, the Eulerian bias inherits from the primordial non-Gaussianity not only a scale-dependence, but also a modulation with the angle of observation when sources with different biases are correlated.

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@article{arxiv.1011.4374,
  title  = {Relativistic effects and primordial non-Gaussianity in the galaxy bias},
  author = {N. Bartolo and S. Matarrese and A. Riotto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.4374},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

12 pages, LaTeX file; version accepted for publication in JCAP