Fastsound: Probing the Origin of Cosmic Acceleration by Galaxy Clustering at z ~ 1.3 with Subaru/fmos
Fastsound: Probing the Origin of Cosmic Acceleration by Galaxy Clustering at z ~ 1.3 with Subaru/fmos
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10.5303/pkas.2015.30.2.367
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2015-09
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T. Totani
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, and detected the redshift space distortionat this redshift range for the rst time. The redshift space distortion (RSD) signal will be used to derivea measurement of the growth rate of large scale structure, which will provide a test for modi ed gravityas a possible origin of accelerated cosmic explansion. Here we present an overview and the current statusof the project.Key words: large-scale structure of Universe | dark energy1. INTRODUCTIONThe most signi cant mystery concerning our current pic-ture of the Universe is the accelerating nature of the cos-mic expansion. This is well-described by the ‘CDM’model which supplements dark matter with a repulsivecosmological constant. However this has severe concep-tual problems, in that while it is consistent with all cur-rent observations (see Frieman et al. 2008, for a review)it is an entirely empirical model without a fundamentalphysical basis. The natural interpretation of as rep-resenting the zero-point energy of the vacuum fails by122 orders of magnitude and an extreme ne-tuning isrequired for it to appear now in the long history of theuniverse. This has motivated numerous ideas for newphysics of ‘dark energy’ or ‘modi ed gravity’ to explainthe large scale cosmic dynamics of spacetime (e.g., Cald-well & Kamionkowski 2009, for a theoretical review).Large scale redshift surveys of galaxies are now widelyrecognized as one of the most powerful approaches totackle this important and dicult problem. This is be-cause they are able to simultaneously measure the e ectsof dark energy elds (which modify the expansion) andmodi cations of gravity (which also a ect the growth ofstructures in the Universe). Low redshift surveys suchas 2dFGRS and SDSS have delivered a wealth of cosmo-logical results this way but the results remain consistentwith CDM and have, frustratingly, not provided newclues to the underlying physics.The redshift space distortion (RSD) observed ingalaxy redshift survey data is one of powerful tools totest the theory of gravity on cosmological scales. Thecore idea is to measure the two dimensional clustering ofhttp://pkas.kas.orggalaxies both across and along the line-of-sight. Becausethis is measured in ‘redshift space’ an anisotropic sta-tistical distortion arises in galaxy clustering due to thepeculiar velocity of galaxies falling in to larger struc-tures. This distortion allows us to measure the infallrate, and comparison with the mass uctuations thenprovides a constraining test of the theory of gravity (e.g.the review by Hamilton 1998). The quantity that willbe measured is the growth rate f