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Low redshift surveys of galaxy peculiar velocities provide a wealth of cosmological information. We revisit the idea of extracting this information by directly measuring the redshift-space momentum power spectrum from such surveys. We…

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We present a novel approach to compute systematically the relativistic projection effects at any order in perturbation theory within the weak field approximation. In this derivation the galaxy number counts is written completely in terms of…

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Measuring relativistic effects on cosmological scales would provide further confirmation of the validity of general relativity in the still poorly tested condition of weak gravity. Despite their relevance, relativistic imprints in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-20 Marco Novara , Federico Montano , Stefano Camera

Gravitational clustering is an intrinsically non-linear process that generates significant non-Gaussian signatures in the density field. We consider how these affect power spectrum determinations from galaxy and weak-lensing surveys.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Roman Scoccimarro , Matias Zaldarriaga , Lam Hui

We present a method to obtain a high-significance detection of relativistic effects on cosmological scales. Measurements of such effects would be instrumental for our understanding of the Universe, as they would provide a further…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-19 Federico Montano , Stefano Camera

Several recent studies have shown how to properly calculate the observed clustering of galaxies in a relativistic context, and uncovered corrections to the Newtonian calculation that become significant on scales near the horizon. Here, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Donghui Jeong , Fabian Schmidt , Christopher M. Hirata

Next-generation galaxy and 21cm intensity mapping surveys will rely on a combination of the power spectrum and bispectrum for high-precision measurements of primordial non-Gaussianity. In turn, these measurements will allow us to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-08 Roy Maartens , Sheean Jolicoeur , Obinna Umeh , Eline M. De Weerd , Chris Clarkson

Observations of redshift-space distortions in spectroscopic galaxy surveys offer an attractive method for observing the build-up of cosmological structure. In this paper we develop and test a new statistic based on anisotropies in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Will J Percival , Martin White

We derive expressions for the survey-window convolved galaxy power spectrum in real space for a full sky and deep redshift survey, but taking into account the geometrical lightcone effect. We investigate the impact of using the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-07 Daniel Pryer , Robert E. Smith , Robin Booth , Chris Blake , Alexander Eggemeier , Jon Loveday

Given the important role that the galaxy bispectrum has recently acquired in cosmology and the scale and precision of forthcoming galaxy clustering observations, it is timely to derive the full expression of the large-scale bispectrum going…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-31 Daniele Bertacca , Alvise Raccanelli , Nicola Bartolo , Michele Liguori , Sabino Matarrese , Licia Verde

The galaxy power spectrum contains information on the growth of structure, the growth rate through redshift space distortions, and the cosmic expansion through baryon acoustic oscillation features. We study the ability of two proposed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Arthur Stril , Robert N. Cahn , Eric V. Linder

Forthcoming galaxy surveys will provide measurements of galaxy clustering with an unprecedented level of precision, that will require comparably good accuracy. Current models for galaxy correlations rely on approximations and idealizations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-26 Alvise Raccanelli , Zvonimir Vlah

At low redshift, it is possible to combine spectroscopic information of galaxies with their luminosity or angular diameter distance to directly measure the projection of peculiar velocities (PV) along the line-of-sight. A PV survey probing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-02 Mattia Pantiri , Matteo Foglieni , Enea Di Dio , Emanuele Castorina

The three-dimensional galaxy power spectrum is a powerful probe of primordial non-Gaussianity and additional general relativistic (GR) effects on large scales, which can be constrained by the current and upcoming large-scale structure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-03 Robin Y. Wen , Henry S. Grasshorn Gebhardt , Chen Heinrich , Olivier Doré

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-20 N. Bartolo , S. Matarrese , A. Riotto

The large-scale structure growth index $\gamma$ provides a consistency test of the standard cosmology and is a potential indicator of modified gravity. We investigate the constraints on $\gamma$ from next-generation spectroscopic surveys,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-12 José Fonseca , Jan-Albert Viljoen , Roy Maartens

We examine the computation of wide-angle corrections to the galaxy power spectrum including redshift-space distortions and relativistic Doppler corrections, and also including multiple tracers with differing clustering, magnification and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-12 Pritha Paul , Chris Clarkson , Roy Maartens

On the scale of the cosmic horizon, signatures that are unique to general relativity are concealed within the statistics of the large scale distribution of galaxies. These were thought to be beyond the reach of all but the most ambitious…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Samantha Josephine Rossiter , Stefano Camera , Federico Montano , Chris Clarkson , Dionysios Karagiannis , Roy Maartens

We present a new model for the full shape of large-scale the power spectrum based on renormalized perturbation theory. To test the validity of this prescription, we compare this model against power spectra measured in a suite of 50 large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-03 Francesco Montesano , Ariel G. Sanchez , Stefanie Phleps

We estimate the two- and three-dimensional power spectra, P_2(K) and P_3(k), of the galaxy distribution by applying a maximum likelihood estimator to pixel maps of the APM Galaxy Survey. The analysis provides optimal estimates of the power…

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