Combining cosmological constraints from cluster counts and galaxy clustering
Abstract
Present and future large scale surveys offer promising probes of cosmology. For example the Dark Energy Survey (DES) is forecast to detect ~300 millions galaxies and thousands clusters up to redshift ~1.3. I here show ongoing work to combine two probes of large scale structure : cluster number counts and galaxy 2-point function (in real or harmonic space). The halo model (coupled to a Halo Occupation Distribution) can be used to model the cross-covariance between these probes, and I introduce a diagrammatic method to compute easily the different terms involved. Furthermore, I compute the joint non-Gaussian likelihood, using the Gram-Charlier series. Then I show how to extend the methods of Bayesian hyperparameters to Poissonian distributions, in a first step to include them in this joint likelihood.
- Publication:
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Statistical Challenges in 21st Century Cosmology
- Pub Date:
- May 2014
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921314013556
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1407.1247
- Bibcode:
- 2014IAUS..306..216L
- Keywords:
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- galaxies: statistics;
- methods: data analysis;
- cosmology;
- joint probes;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 5 pages, 5 figures. Proceedings of the IAUS 306: Statistical challenges in 21st Century Cosmology (SCCC 21). Compared to the proceedings version : larger figures in color