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The DWT Power Spectrum of the two-degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey

Astrophysics 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

The power spectrum of the two-degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) sample is estimated with the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) method. The DWT power spectra within 0.04<k<2.3h0.04 <k< 2.3 hMpc1^{-1} are measured for three volume-limited samples defined in connective absolute magnitude bins 1918-19 \sim -18, 2019-20 \sim -19 and 2120-21 \sim -20. We show that the DWT power spectrum can effectively distinguish Λ\LambdaCDM models of σ8=0.84\sigma_8=0.84 and σ8=0.74\sigma_8=0.74. We adopt maximum likelihood method to perform three-parameter fitting with bias parameter bb, pairwise velocity dispersion σpv\sigma_{pv} and redshift distortion parameter β=Ωm0.6/b\beta=\Omega_m^{0.6}/b to the measured DWT power spectrum. Fitting results denotes that in a σ8=0.84\sigma_8=0.84 universe the best fitted Ωm\Omega_m given by the three samples are consistent in the range 0.280.360.28 \sim 0.36, and the best fitted σpv\sigma_{pv} are 39827+35398^{+35}_{-27}, 47529+37475^{+37}_{-29} and 550±20550 \pm 20km/s for the three samples, respectively. However in the model of σ8=0.74\sigma_8=0.74, our three samples give very different values of Ωm\Omega_m. We repeat the fitting by using empirical formula of redshift distortion. The result of the model of low σ8\sigma_8 is still poor, especially, one of the best value σpv\sigma_{pv} is as large as 10310^3km/s. The power spectrum of 2dFGRS seems in disfavor of models with low amplitude of density fluctuations.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0609411,
  title  = {The DWT Power Spectrum of the two-degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey},
  author = {Yan-Chuan Cai and Jun Pan and Yong-Heng Zhao and Long-Long Feng and Li-Zhi Fang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0609411},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

11 pages, 9 figures. submitted to MNRAS. submitted to MNRAS