2009

How to suppress the shot noise in galaxy surveys

Seljak, U., Hamaus, N., Desjacques, V.

Understand

Galaxy surveys are one of the most powerful means to extract the cosmological information and for a given volume the attainable precision is determined by the galaxy shot noise sigma_n^2 relative to the power spectrum P.

  • It is generally assumed that shot noise is white and given by the inverse of the number density n.
  • In this paper we argue one may be able to considerably improve upon this: in the halo picture of cosmological structure all of the dark matter is in halos of varying mass and galaxies are formed inside these halos, but for the dark matter mass and momentum conservation guarantee that nonlinear effects cannot develop a white noise in the dark matter power spectrum on large scales.
  • This suggests that with a suitable weighting a similar effect may be achieved for galaxies, suppressing their shot noise.

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