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Using a fully gauge-invariant approach, we compute for the first time in the literature relativistic effects on the redshift drift up to second order in cosmological perturbation theory. This is achieved by employing a set of light-cone…

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We present a detailed derivation of the observed galaxy number over-density on cosmological scales up to second order in perturbation theory. We include all relativistic effects that arise from observing on the past lightcone. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-28 Daniele Bertacca , Roy Maartens , Chris Clarkson

In this paper, I investigated the Doppler magnification effect in the flux-limited galaxy number counts with finite redshift bin width. In contradiction with our intuition, the number counts correction formula for different redshift bin are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-23 Song Chen

We study up to second order the galaxy number over-density that depends on magnification in redshift space on cosmological scales for a concordance model. The result contains all general relativistic effects up to second order which arise…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-08 Daniele Bertacca

The observed flat rotation curves of galaxies require either the presence of dark matter in Newtonian gravitational potentials or a significant modification to the theory of gravity at galactic scales. Detecting relativistic Doppler shifts…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-02-15 Alan Cooney , Dimitrios Psaltis , Dennis Zaritsky

We study the power spectrum dipole of an N-body simulation which includes relativistic effects through ray-tracing and covers the low redshift Universe up to $z_{\rm max} = 0.465$ (RayGalGroup simulation). We model relativistic corrections…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-05 Florian Beutler , Enea Di Dio

Galaxy surveys contain information on the largest scales via wide-angle and relativistic contributions. By combining two different galaxy populations, we can suppress the strong cosmic variance on ultra-large scales and thus enhance the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-26 Sheean Jolicoeur , Sêcloka L. Guedezounme , Roy Maartens , Pritha Paul , Chris Clarkson , Stefano Camera

In this paper we introduce the `redshift fluctuation' as a gauge-invariant cosmological observable and give its fully relativistic expression at first order in cosmological perturbation theory. We show that this corresponds effectively to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-18 William L Matthewson , Dennis Stock , Ruth Durrer

The line-of-sight peculiar velocities of galaxies contribute to their observed redshifts, breaking the translational invariance of galaxy clustering down to a rotational invariance around the observer. This becomes important when the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-29 Emanuele Castorina , Martin White

Intrinsic galaxy alignments yield an important contribution to the observed statistics of galaxy shapes. The general bias expansion for galaxy sizes and shapes in three dimensions has been recently described by Vlah, Chisari \& Schmidt…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 Zvonimir Vlah , Nora Elisa Chisari , Fabian Schmidt

The observed galaxy distribution via galaxy redshift surveys appears distorted due to redshift-space distortions (RSD). While one dominant contribution to RSD comes from the Doppler effect induced by the peculiar velocity of galaxies, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-04 Shohei Saga , Atsushi Taruya , Michel-Andrès Breton , Yann Rasera

We study the parity-odd part (that we shall call Doppler term) of the linear galaxy two-point correlation function that arises from wide-angle, velocity, Doppler lensing and cosmic acceleration effects. As it is important at low redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-11 Alvise Raccanelli , Daniele Bertacca , Donghui Jeong , Mark C. Neyrinck , Alexander S. Szalay

General relativistic imprints on the galaxy bispectrum arise from observational (or projection) effects. The lightcone projection effects include local contributions from Doppler and gravitational potential terms, as well as lensing and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-02 Sheean Jolicoeur , Obinna Umeh , Roy Maartens , Chris Clarkson

We determine the number counts to second order in cosmological perturbation theory in the Poisson gauge and allowing for anisotropic stress. The calculation is performed using an innovative approach based on the recently proposed "geodesic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-09 Enea Di Dio , Ruth Durrer , Giovanni Marozzi , Francesco Montanari

The galaxy number density is a key quantity to compare theoretical predictions to the observational data from current and future Large Scale Structure surveys. The precision demanded by these Stage IV surveys requires the use of second…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-08 Jorge L. Fuentes , Juan Carlos Hidalgo , Karim A. Malik

Galaxy power spectrum and bispectrum signals are distorted by peculiar velocities and other relativistic effects arising from a perturbed spacetime background. In addition, study of correlation functions of tracers in Fourier space is often…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-27 Milad Noorikuhani , Roman Scoccimarro

Above the equality scale the galaxy bispectrum will be a key probe for measuring primordial non-Gaussianity which can help differentiate between different inflationary models and other theories of the early universe. On these scales a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 Eline M. de Weerd , Chris Clarkson , Sheean Jolicoeur , Roy Maartens , Obinna Umeh

We perform theoretical and numerical studies of the full relativistic two-point galaxy correlation function, considering the linear-order scalar and tensor perturbation contributions and the wide-angle effects. Using the gauge-invariant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-18 Fulvio Scaccabarozzi , Jaiyul Yoo , Sang Gyu Biern

Objects falling into an overdensity appear larger on its near side and smaller on its far side than other objects at the same redshift. This produces a dipolar pattern of magnification, primarily as a consequence of the Doppler effect. At…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-09 Camille Bonvin , Sambatra Andrianomena , David Bacon , Chris Clarkson , Roy Maartens , Teboho Moloi , Philip Bull

The Fourier-space galaxy bispectrum is complex, with the imaginary part arising from leading-order relativistic corrections, due to Doppler, gravitational redshift and related line-of-sight effects in redshift space. The detection of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-05 Roy Maartens , Sheean Jolicoeur , Obinna Umeh , Eline M. De Weerd , Chris Clarkson , Stefano Camera