Velocity And Density Fields On Cosmological Scales

Download or read book Velocity and Density Fields on Cosmological Scales written by Elena Sarpa and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new fully non-linear reconstruction algorithm, based on the least-action principle and extending the Fast Action Minimisation method by is presented, intended for applications with the next-generation massive spectroscopic surveys. Its capability of recovering the velocity field starting from the observed density field is tested on dark-matter halo catalogues simulation to trace the trajectories of up to 10^6 haloes backward-in-time. Both in real and redshift-space it successfully recovers the peculiar velocities. The new algorithm is first employed for the accurate recovery of the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) scale in two-point correlation functions. Tests on dark-matter halo catalogues show how the new algorithm successfully recovers the BAO feature in real and redshift-space, also for anomalous samples showing misplaced or absent signature of BAO. A comparison with the first-order Lagrangian reconstruction is presented, showing that this techniques outperforms the linear approximation in recovering an unbiased measurement of the BAO scale. A second version of the algorithm accounting for the survey geometry and the bias of tracers is finally tested on low-redshift galaxy samples extracted form mocks specifically designed to match the SDSS-DR12 LRG clustering. The analysis of the anisotropic clustering indicates the non-linear reconstruction as a fundamental tool to brake the degeneracy between redshift-space distortion and the Alcock-Paczynski effect. Finally the application to the cosmic voids analysis is introduced, showing the great potentiality of a non-linear modelling of the velocity field in restoring the intrinsic isotropy of voids.