Improvements in cosmological constraints from breaking growth degeneracy

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2020

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EDP Sciences

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The key probes of the growth of a large-scale structure are its rate f and amplitude σ8. Redshift space distortions in the galaxy power spectrum allow us to measure only the combination fσ8, which can be used to constrain the standard cosmological model or alternatives. By using measurements of the galaxy-galaxy lensing cross-correlation spectrum or of the galaxy bispectrum, it is possible to break the fσ8 degeneracy and obtain separate estimates of f and σ8 from the same galaxy sample. Currently there are very few such separate measurements, but even this allows for improved constraints on cosmological models.

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Dark energy, Large-scale structure of Universe, Cosmological constraints, Redshift, Power spectrum

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Perenon, L. et al. (2020). Improvements in cosmological constraints from breaking growth degeneracy. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 642, A116