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利用红移空间中的星系对测试暗能量

Testing dark energy using pairs of galaxies in redshift space

Elise Jennings, C. M. Baugh, S. Pascoli

摘要:

成对星系与视线之间的夹角分布,在真实空间中是均匀的,但由于它们的特殊运动而扭曲,并被提议作为宇宙膨胀的探测器。我们测试这个想法使用N体模拟的结构形成在一个冷的暗物质宇宙的宇宙学常数和两个不同的宇宙学与不同的暗能量模型。我们发现角分布的畸变对暗能量的性质很敏感。然而,第一次,我们的模拟也揭示了在以前的工作中被忽视的红移和宇宙学的分布的归一化的依赖性。这引入了系统学,严重限制了原始方法的实用性。在模拟的指导下,我们设计了一种新的、改进的暗能量性质的测试。我们证明,这种测试不需要背景宇宙学的先验知识,它甚至可以区分模型,具有相同的重子声学振荡和暗物质晕质量函数。我们的技术可以应用于完成的BOSS星系红移调查,以限制宇宙的膨胀历史优于2%。该方法还将产生不同的信号,暗能量和修改后的引力宇宙学,即使他们有相同的膨胀历史,通过不同的奇特的速度在这些情况下诱导。

英文摘要:

The distribution of angles subtended between pairs of galaxies and the line of sight,which is uniform in real space, is distorted by their peculiar motions, and has been proposed as a probe of cosmic expansion. We test this idea using N-body simulations of structure formation in a cold dark matter universe with a cosmological constant and in two variant cosmologies with different dark energy models. We find that the distortion of the distribution of angles is sensitive to the nature of dark energy. However, for the first time, our simulations also reveal dependences of the normalization of the distribution on both redshift and cosmology that have been neglected in previous work. This introduces systematics that severely limit the usefulness of the original method. Guided by our simulations, we devise a new, improved test of the nature of dark energy. We demonstrate that this test does not require prior knowledge of the background cosmology and that it can even distinguish between models that have the same baryonic acoustic oscillations and dark matter halo mass functions. Our technique could be applied to the completed BOSS galaxy redshift survey to constrain the expansion history of the Universe to better than 2%. The method will also produce different signals for dark energy and modified gravity cosmologies even when they have identical expansion histories, through the different peculiar velocities induced in these cases.

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