The angular power spectrum of NVSS radio galaxies

The angular power spectrum of NVSS radio galaxies
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NVSS射电星系的角功率谱

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2004
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J. Borrill
J. Borrill
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C. Blake;P. Ferreira;J. Borrill

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本文采用两种独立的方法:直接球谐分析和最大似然估计(MLE),测量了NRAO VLA巡天(NVSS)中射电星系的角功率谱C。结果是一致的,可以理解使用模型的空间物质功率谱和红移分布的射电星系在毫焦耳通量密度水平。只有当射电星系对质量涨落具有很高的偏差时,角功率谱才能得到很好的拟合;通过边缘化模型的其他参数,我们得到68%的置信区间1.53 < B 0 x σ 8 < 1.87,其中B 0是射电星系的线性偏差因子,σ 8描述了物质功率谱的归一化。我们的模型表明,NVSS C光谱中的大部分信号是在低红移z ≤ 0.1处产生的。因此,需要NVSS源的单个红移来减轻投影效应,并直接探测大尺度上的物质功率谱。
We measure the angular power spectrum C of radio galaxies in the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) using two independent methods: direct spherical harmonic analysis and maximum likelihood estimation (MLE). The results are consistent and can be understood using models for the spatial matter power spectrum and for the redshift distribution of radio galaxies at mJy flux density levels. A good fit to the angular power spectrum can only be achieved if radio galaxies possess high bias with respect to mass fluctuations; by marginalizing over the other parameters of the model we derive a 68 per cent confidence interval 1.53 < b 0 x σ 8 < 1.87, where b 0 is the linear bias factor for radio galaxies and σ 8 describes the normalization of the matter power spectrum. Our models indicate that the majority of the signal in the NVSS C spectrum is generated at low redshifts z ≤ 0.1. Individual redshifts for the NVSS sources are thus required to alleviate projection effects and probe directly the matter power spectrum on large scales.