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Title

The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: spherical harmonics analysis of fluctuations in the final catalogue

Author(s)

Percival, Will J.;  Burkey, Daniel;  Heavens, Alan F.;  Taylor, Andy N.;  Cole, Shaun;  Peacock, John A.;  Baugh, Carlton;  Bland-Hawthorn, Joss;  Bridges, Terry J.;  Cannon, Russell D.;  Colless, Matthew;  Collins, Chris A.;  Couch, Warrick J.;  Dalton, Gavin B.;  De Propris, Roberto;  Driver, Simon P.;  Efstathiou, George P.;  Ellis, Richard S.;  Frenk, Carlos S.;  Glazebrook, Karl;  Jackson, C. A.;  Lahav, Ofer;  Lewis, Ian;  Lumsden, Stuart;  Maddox, Stephen J.;  Norberg, Peder;  Peterson, Bruce A.;  Sutherland, William J.;  Taylor, Keith

Abstract

We present the result of a decomposition of the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) galaxy overdensity field into an orthonormal basis of spherical harmonics and spherical Bessel functions. Galaxies are expected to directly follow the bulk motion of the density field on large scales, so the absolute amplitude of the observed large-scale redshift-space distortions caused by this motion is expected to be independent of galaxy properties. By splitting the overdensity field into radial and angular components, we linearly model the observed distortion and obtain the cosmological constraint Ω m0.6σ8 = 0.46 ± 0.06. The amplitude of the linear redshift-space distortions relative to the galaxy overdensity field is dependent on galaxy properties and, for L* galaxies at redshift z = 0, we measure β(L*, 0) = 0.58 ± 0.08, and the amplitude of the overdensity fluctuations b(L *, 0)σ8 = 0.79 ± 0.03, marginalizing over the power spectrum shape parameters. Assuming a fixed power spectrum shape consistent with the full Fourier analysis produces very similar parameter constraints.

Publication type

Journal article

Source

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 353, no. 4 (Oct 2004), pp. 1201-1218

Publication year

2004

Keyword(s)

Angular power spectrum;  Constraints;  Cosmological parameters;  Dependence;  Digital sky survey;  Distortions;  Large-scale structure;  Luminosity;  Matter density;  Probe WMAP observations;  Real-space;  Universe

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell Publishing

ISSN

0035-8711

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08146.x

Copyright

Copyright © 2004 RAS.

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