nikolaos nikoloudakis friday lunch talk 12/6/09
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Extreme Multiplex Spectroscopy (XMS/NG1dF) Routes to Baryon Acoustic Oscillation & Gravitational Growth Rate. Nikolaos Nikoloudakis Friday lunch talk 12/6/09 Supported by a Marie Curie Early Stage Training Fellowship. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Nikolaos Nikoloudakis Friday lunch talk 12/6/09
Supported by a Marie Curie Early Stage Training Fellowship
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4 clones spectrographs
prime focus of classical 4-m wide-field telescopes
4000 MOS slits over a 1° field (1.5’’ seeing)
Spectral resolution 10 Å (0.52 – 0.72, 0.72-0.92 μm)
25000 - 30000 galaxy redshifts/night for z up to 0.7
→ 1.5 hrs exposure → ~ 5-6 million galaxy z surveys in 200
nights → 1000-2000 deg² sky area
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Observational Cosmology via galaxy redshift surveys at z~0.7
→ LRGs (i<21) ELGs (i<22)
Measuring Growth of Structure/ z-space distortion.
Measuring the scale of BAO.
XMS Galaxy Evolution Survey.
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i<22 galaxy emission line z from OII 3727Å at S/N>6 in 1.5hr exposure in ~1.´´5 seeing
i<21 galaxy absorption line z at continuum S/N>4 in 1.5hr exposure in ~1.´´5 seeing
(Exposure times being checked directly – see later)
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Galaxy sky densitiesGalaxy sky densities
i<20 all galaxies ~2500deg-2
i<21 z~0.5 em+absn galaxies ~5000deg-2
21<i<22 all galaxies ~9000deg-2
21<i<22 z~0.7 OII em galaxies ~5000deg-2
Stripe82 reaches i~22 – so will PanSTARRS!
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Acoustic peaks created in the photon-baryon fluid, while photon’s pressure was resisting against the gravitational collapse of perturbations in the density of baryons. Their feature were acoustic waves in early Universe (z<1100), so during recombination, these waves had ‘frozen’ in a scale of ~ 150 comoving Mpc.
They correspond to sounds waves propagating through the primordial photon – baryon fluid in the early Universe
→ → → New ways to measure : evolution of expansion rate + relative effects of dark energy & dark
matter
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→ oscillation in the power spectrum P(k) → spike in the two point spatial galaxy –
galaxy correlation function ξ
The BAO signature has been detected in the local universe:1. 2dFGRS of 250000 z~0.1 galaxies ( Cole et al.
2005)2. SDSS galaxy samples of 75000 z~0.35 LRGs ( Eisenstein et al. 2005).
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Using CMB data we can determine precisely the physical length scale of BAO.
→ standard ruler that can be measured in the transverse and the
radial direction from the distribution of galaxies
The combination of : apparent size + known physical sizes : → angular diameter distance dA
→ Hubble parameter H(z)
Better constraints in the equation-of-state of the
dark energy.
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This quantity can measure survey efficiency for detecting BAO, Gravitational Growth Rate and other quantities based on galaxy clustering.
The shot noise of the power spectrum must be as low as possible,
Errors on P(k) go as 1/sqrt(Veff(k)).
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Luminous Red Galaxies 360000 LRG / 3000
deg^2 170 nights ž ≈ 0.7 1.5 hrs exposure
Emission Line Galaxies 350000 ELG/ 1000 deg^2 165 nights ž ≈ 0.6 exposure 1 hrs
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Extra test of GR Estimator of mass M/L galaxy groups haloes in CDM models Measurement Redshift-space distortions
i. at small scales, random peculiar velocities strongly distort the correlation function along the parallel π direction to the line of sight, the known
“Fingers-of-God” effect,
ii. at large scales the coherent infall causes a flattening to the perpendicular direction σ.
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2-D correlation function2-D correlation function WiggleZ AAomegaro=4.4Mpc/h ro=10Mpc/h b=1.3 b=2.35 β=0.58 β=0.34
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White, Song/&Percival2008
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XMS/NG1dF ELGs 4000deg-2
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MOSCA Instrument
3.5-m Cassegrain focus at Calar Alto FOV 10 x 8 arcmin2
resolution ~ 28Å ~ 70 slits/ mask
MOSCA data 1 mask/ 2hrs 2 masks/ 1 hr Green -250 grism
Below average observational conditions More data needed
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15/30 from 2hrs
z = 0.95
z = 0.77
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4/10 from 2hrs
z = 0.62
z = 0.73
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LRGs can give bigger effective volume more quickly than ELGs for 2dF.
XMS/NG1dF is competitive for BAO at scales 40-
300 Mpc
XMS/NG1dF is more competitive for z-space distortions at smaller scales.
Some of the assumptions needed to be tested: exposure times/MOSCA data