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arXiv 2011.03503astro-ph.CO
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改进Galerkin各向异性三点关联函数的视线:按$\mathcal{O}(N^2)$标度的质心法和单位矢量平均法

Improving the Line of Sight for the Anisotropic 3-Point Correlation Function of Galaxies: Centroid and Unit-Vector-Average Methods Scaling as $\mathcal{O}(N^2)$

Karolina Garcia, Zachary Slepian

摘要:

三点关联函数(3 PCF)测量星系三胞胎之间的相关性,编码关于特殊速度的信息,这些信息扭曲了星系沿视线的观测位置,偏离了它们的真实位置。为了访问这些信息,我们必须跟踪3 PCF不仅对每个三角形形状的依赖性,还对它相对于视线的方向的依赖性。因此,视线的不同选择将影响测量的3 PCF。到目前为止,视线已被视为一个单一的三元组成员(STM)的方向,但使用的三元组成员影响3 PCF的统计误差的20% BOSS类调查。对于DESI(2019-24),精确度提高了5倍,这将转化为100%的统计误差,使总误差条增加40%。在这里,我们提出了一种新的方法,是完全对称的三重态成员之间,并使用三个星系的位置矢量(我们显示点的三角形质心)的平均值,或其单位(方向)矢量的平均值。简单地说,这些方法似乎需要三元组计数,缩放为$N^3$,其中$N$是调查中对象的数量。通过利用固体谐波位移定理,我们在这里展示了如何这些方法可以评估缩放为$N^2$。我们期望它们可以用于对即将到来的红移调查(如DESI)的各向异性3 PCF进行鲁棒的,无系统的测量。这样做将反过来打开一个额外的渠道,以限制结构的增长速度,从而了解物质密度以及测试引力理论。

英文摘要:

The 3-Point Correlation Function (3PCF), which measures correlations between triplets of galaxies encodes information about peculiar velocities, which distort the observed positions of galaxies along the line of sight away from their true positions. To access this information, we must track the 3PCF's dependence not only on each triangle's shape, but also on its orientation with respect to the line of sight. Consequently, different choices for the line of sight will affect the measured 3PCF. Up to now, the line of sight has been taken as the direction to a single triplet member (STM), but which triplet member is used impacts the 3PCF by ~20% of the statistical error for a BOSS-like survey. For DESI (2019-24), which is 5X more precise, this would translate to 100% of the statistical error, increasing the total error bar by 40%. We here propose a new method that is fully symmetric between the triplet members, and uses either the average of the three galaxy position vectors (which we show points to the triangle centroid), or the average of their unit (direction) vectors. Naively, these approaches would seem to require triplet counting, scaling as $N^3$, with $N$ the number of objects in the survey. By harnessing the solid harmonic shift theorem, we here show how these methods can be evaluated scaling as $N^2$. We expect that they can be used to make a robust, systematics-free measurement of the anisotropic 3PCF of upcoming redshift surveys such as DESI. So doing will in turn open an additional channel to constrain the growth rate of structure and thereby learn the matter density as well as test the theory of gravity.

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