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Testing cosmic geometry without dynamic distortions using voids

Résumé

We propose a novel technique to probe the expansion history of the Universe based on the clustering statistics of cosmic voids. In particular, we compute their two-point statistics in redshift space on the basis of realistic mock galaxy catalogs and apply the Alcock-Paczynski test. In contrast to galaxies, we find void auto-correlations to be marginally affected by peculiar motions, providing a model-independent measure of cosmological parameters without systematics from redshift-space distortions. Because only galaxy-galaxy and void-galaxy correlations have been considered in these types of studies before, the presented method improves both statistical and systematic uncertainties on the product of angular diameter distance and Hubble rate, furnishing the potentially cleanest probe of cosmic geometry available to date.

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hal-01122846 , version 1 (04-03-2015)

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Nico Hamaus, Pm Sutter, Guilhem Lavaux, Benjamin D. Wandelt. Testing cosmic geometry without dynamic distortions using voids. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2014, 2014 (12), pp.013. ⟨10.1088/1475-7516/2014/12/013⟩. ⟨hal-01122846⟩
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