Imperial College London

ProfessorAlanHeavens

Faculty of Natural SciencesDepartment of Physics

Chair in Astrostatistics
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 2930a.heavens Website

 
 
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Location

 

1018EBlackett LaboratorySouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Simpson:2016:10.1103/PhysRevD.93.023525,
author = {Simpson, F and Blake, C and Peacock, JA and Baldry, IK and Bland-Hawthorn, J and Heavens, AF and Heymans, C and Loveday, J and Norberg, P},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.93.023525},
journal = {Physical Review D},
title = {Galaxy and mass assembly: redshift space distortions from the clipped galaxy field},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.023525},
volume = {93},
year = {2016}
}

RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - JOUR
AB - We present the first cosmological measurement derived from a galaxy density field subject to a “clipping” transformation. By enforcing an upper bound on the galaxy number density field in the galaxy and mass assembly survey (GAMA), contributions from the nonlinear processes of virialization and galaxy bias are greatly reduced. This leads to a galaxy power spectrum which is easier to model, without calibration from numerical simulations. We develop a theoretical model for the power spectrum of a clipped field in redshift space, which is exact for the case of anisotropic Gaussian fields. Clipping is found to extend the applicability of the conventional Kaiser prescription by more than a factor of 3 in wave numbers, or a factor of 30 in terms of the number of Fourier modes. By modeling the galaxy power spectrum on scales k<0.3  hMpc−1 and density fluctuations δg<4 we measure the normalized growth rate fσ8(z=0.18)=0.29±0.10.
AU - Simpson,F
AU - Blake,C
AU - Peacock,JA
AU - Baldry,IK
AU - Bland-Hawthorn,J
AU - Heavens,AF
AU - Heymans,C
AU - Loveday,J
AU - Norberg,P
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.93.023525
PY - 2016///
SN - 1550-7998
TI - Galaxy and mass assembly: redshift space distortions from the clipped galaxy field
T2 - Physical Review D
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.023525
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/33018
VL - 93
ER -