Measuring the growth of matter fluctuations with third-order galaxy correlations

Abstract

Measurements of the linear growth factor $D$ at different redshifts $z$ are key to distinguish among cosmological models. One can estimate the derivative $dD(z)/d\ln (1+z)$ from redshift space measurements of the 3D anisotropic galaxy two-point correlation $\xi (z)$, but the degeneracy of its transverse (or projected) component with galaxy bias $b$, i.e. ${\xi }_{\perp }(z)\propto D^2(z)b^2(z)$, introduces large errors in the growth measurement. Here we present a comparison between two methods which break this degeneracy by combining second- and third-order statistics. One uses the shape of the reduced three-point correlation and the other a combination of third-order one- and two-point cumulants. These methods use the fact that, for Gaussian initial conditions and scales larger than $20$ $h^{-1}$Mpc, the reduced third-order matter correlations are independent of redshift (and therefore of the growth factor) while the third-order galaxy correlations depend on $b$. We use matter and halo catalogs from the MICE-GC simulation to test how well we can recover $b(z)$ and therefore $D(z)$ with these methods in 3D real space. We also present a new approach, which enables us to measure $D$ directly from the redshift evolution of second- and third-order galaxy correlations without the need of modelling matter correlations. For haloes with masses lower than $10^{14}$ $h^{-1}$M${}_{\odot }$, we find $10$ deviations between the different estimates of $D$, which are comparable to current observational errors. At higher masses we find larger differences that can probably be attributed to the breakdown of the bias model and non-Poissonian shot noise.

24 pages, 20 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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