Are peculiar velocity surveys competitive as a cosmological probe?

Abstract

Peculiar velocity surveys, which measure galaxy peculiar velocities directly from standard candles in addition to redshifts, can provide strong constraints on the linear growth rate of cosmological large-scale structure at low redshift. The improvement originates from the physical relationship between galaxy density and peculiar velocity, which substantially reduces cosmic variance. We present the results of Fisher matrix forecasts of correlated fields of galaxy density and velocity. Peculiar velocity can improve the growth rate constraints by about a factor of two compared to density alone, if we can use all the information for wavenumber k < 0.2 h/Mpc. Future peculiar velocity surveys, TAIPAN, and the all-sky HI surveys, WALLABY and WNSHS, can measure the growth rate, f*sigma8 to 3 per cent at z ~ 0.025. Although the velocity subsample is about an order of magnitude smaller than the redshift sample from the same survey, it improves the constraint by 40 per cent compared to the same survey without velocity measurements. Peculiar velocity surveys can also measure the growth rate as a function of wavenumber with 15-30 per cent uncertainties in bins with widths 0.01 h/Mpc in the range 0.02 h/Mpc < k < 0.1 h/Mpc, which is a large improvement over galaxy density only. Such measurements on very large scales can detect signatures of modified gravity or non-Gaussianity through scale-dependent growth rate or galaxy bias. We use N-body simulations to improve the modelling of auto- and cross-power spectra of galaxy density and peculiar velocity by introducing a new redshift-space distortion term to the velocity, which has been neglected in previous studies. The velocity power spectrum has a damping in redshift space, which is larger than that naively expected from the similar effect in the galaxy power spectrum.

21 pages, 11 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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