Title: Cosmology with Galaxy Correlations from Photometric Redshift Surveys
1Cosmology with Galaxy Correlations from
Photometric Redshift Surveys
- Hu ZhanUC Davisin collaboration with Lloyd
Knox, Tony Tyson, and Vera Margoniner
2Outline
- Power spectrum on very large scales
(k 10-3 h Mpc-1) - Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) on large
scales (k 10-1 h Mpc-1) - LSST dark energy constraints CMB BAO Weak
lensing - Curvature the need for high-z data
3Why Very Large Scales?
- Cross-check for CMB
- Primordial power spectrum
- Probing inflation
- Consistency test for cosmological constraints
from smaller scales
4Challenges
- Photometric redshift errors
- Suppress the power
- Boost the shot noise ? reduce number of modes
- Photometry errors (e.g. dust extinction)
- Lead to spurious power
- Contribute to photo-z errors
- Galaxy bias
- Alters the amplitude and shape of the PS
- Redshift distortion
- Evolution within the survey volume
5Photo-z Errors
Dotted lines measured galaxy power spectrum
(PS), including photo-z suppression and redshift
distortion Solid line matter PS Circles
reconstructed matter PS with a simple estimator,
can be improved, also subject to galaxy
clustering bias errors and errors in cosmological
parameters, may be improved with a better
estimator Dashed line matter PS with linear
redshift distortion The larger the rms photo-z
error the more suppression on the PS The
subscripts l n enumerate spherical harmonic
modes
- Spherical harmonic basis
- Subject to errors in galaxy bias, photometry,
cosmology - Reconstruction at high k can be improved
Zhan et al. (astro-ph/0508119)
6All-sky dust IR emission, centered at north
sough galactic poles. Note the structures and the
low dust at high latitudes.
Schlegel, Finkbeiner, Davis (1998)
7Dust Extinction
only modes in the histogram contribute to the PS
measurement at k0.02h/Mpc
- Left axis fractional rms fluctuations of galaxy
counts within a Gaussian window of size q. - Right normalized mode counts for a given k.
- LSST galaxy surface density can calibrate
photometry errors.
Zhan et al. (astro-ph/0508119)
8Galaxy Bias
Constant bias when binned in luminosity
Tegmark et al. (2004)
9Statistical Errors of the Power Spectrum
- Binning Dk 0.05 k
- Survey volume with zmax1 is roughly 1/9 of that
with zmax2.5 - LSST complimentary to CMB
Zhan et al. (astro-ph/0508119)
10Very-Large-Scale Power Spectrum LSST
- Binning Dk 0.16 k
- Inner error bars cubic geometric outer ones
spherical harmonic mode counting - Dotted lines caused by a step inflation
potential that fits WMAP data (Peiris et al.
2003)
Zhan et al. (astro-ph/0508119)
11Very-Large-Scale Power Spectrum WMAP
Bridle et al. (2003)
20 errors on largest scales.
12BAO as a Standard Ruler
Angular diameter distance Hubble parameter
RS150 Mpc
(Sound horizon at recombination)
(Angular radial scales)
13Standard Sphere (AlcockPaczynski Test)
AP test is weak Constraints mostly from BAO as
standard ruler
14Detections SDSS LRGs
Luminous red galaxies, still noisy
Eisenstein et al. (2005)
15Detections 2dFGRS
noisy
Cole et al. (2005)
16Reduction of Modes due to Photo-z Errors
1/10 modes left!
Glazebrook Blake (2005)
Spectroscopic survey k lt 0.2 h-1Mpc
Photo-z survey sz 0.03 (1z)
Shot noise is amplified by the photo-z
suppression when recovering PS(k,m). P(k)
decreases toward small scales (kgt0.03h/Mpc), so
at high k3 the amplified shot noise may not be
tolerable and the modes have to be discarded.
17Prospects Power Spectrum
Errors are dominated by sample variance (volume)
at low-z and shot noise (number density) at
high-z. For photo-z surveys, sz reduces the
number of modes. See also Blake Bridle (2005).
18Prospects Angular Diameter Distance
- 1 distance errors
- scales with vsz
- CMB priors WK0
s1000 1000 sq deg spectroscopic survey up to
z3 note that WFMOS is 2000 sq deg at zlt1.3 and
300 sq deg at 2.5ltzlt3 distance error
proportional to sqrt(sigma_z) 0.1n(r) for
sub-sampling
19Recovering the Hubble Parameter
- Photo-z errors (in the line-of-sight direction)
introduce a strong feature in the power spectrum - Exponentially sensitive to the Hubble parameter
- Knowledge of the photo-z error distribution is
crucial for recovering H from photometric BAO
surveys.
20Constraints on the Hubble Parameter
- Constraints on the Hubble parameter as a function
of the prior on the rms error of photo-zs. - Precision on sz controls the errors on H.
- CMB priors WK0
Zhan Knox (astro-ph/0509260)
21Self-Calibration of Photo-z Bias
- Constraints on the photo-z bias as a function of
the prior on the rms. - Tight constraints on D H provide useful
self-calibration of photo-z bias.
Zhan Knox (astro-ph/0509260)
22LSST Constraints on w0 and wa BAO
Zhan Knox (astro-ph/0509260)
23LSST Constraints on w0 and wa Weak Lensing
Ma, Hu, Huterer (2005) Ma (private
communication)
24Comparison
- CMB priors WK0
- Weak lensing shear tomography assumes that
photo-z errors are known perfectly. - BAO constraints are competitive.
- A large rms photo-z error is tolerable the key
is the uncertainty in sz.
Zhan Knox (astro-ph/0509260)
25CMB LSST BAO Shear Tomography
26CMB LSST BAO Shear Tomography
27CMB LSST BAO Shear Tomography
Unrealistic because 1) we have not accounted for
the shear-galaxy correlation (Hu Jain 2004), 2)
photo-z errors are known perfectly in WL. This is
a limiting case!
28Curvature? The Need for High-z Data
29Curvature? The Need for High-z Data
30Curvature? The Need for High-z Data
31Curvature? The Need for High-z Data
- CMB priors
- High-z data not critical if WK is fixed
- High-z data crucial if WK is to be inferred
- Behavior of the constraints depends on the survey
and redshift errors - See also Weller Albrecht (2001) and Linder
(2005) for discussions on SNe data
1000 sq deg spectroscopic survey w0wa degrades
quite a bit if no high-z data even worse if WK
is to be inferred.
32Summary
- Deep and wide photo-z surveys such as the LSST
survey can be a valuable probe of possible
features in the matter power spectrum on very
large scales. - LSST can measure the angular diameter distance to
percent level through BAO as well as weak lensing
shear tomography. - Photo-z errors introduce a new feature in the
galaxy power spectrum that enables us to measure
the Hubble parameter, H. However, the errors of H
depend highly on our knowledge of the error
distribution of photo-zs. - Consequently, photo-z BAO (weak lensing as well)
constraints on dark energy equation of state
parameters are sensitive to how accurately we
know the photo-z error distribution. - Given the same priors on photo-z errors, photo-z
BAO is competitive with weak lensing shear
tomography. - To relax the flatness prior, high-z data are
crucial. - Nonlinearities are not negligible. One must
precisely calibrate the power spectrum in real
and redshift spaces with N-body simulations (e.g.
Seo Eisenstein 2003, 2005 Scoccimarro 2004
Linder White 2005 Springel et al. 2005).