Cosmological performance of SKA HI galaxy surveys

Abstract

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will conduct the biggest spectroscopic galaxy survey ever, by detecting the 21cm emission line of neutral hydrogen (HI) from around a billion galaxies over 3/4 of the sky, out to a redshift of z~2. This will allow the redshift-space matter power spectrum, and corresponding dark energy observables, to be measured with unprecedented precision. In this paper, we present an improved model of the HI galaxy number counts and bias from semi-analytic simulations, and use it to calculate the expected yield of HI galaxies from surveys with a variety of Phase 1 and 2 SKA configurations. We illustrate the relative performance of the different surveys by forecasting errors on the radial and transverse scales of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature, finding that the full "billion galaxy survey" with SKA2 will deliver the largest dark energy figure of merit of any current or future large-scale structure survey.

arXiv comment11 pages, 7 figures, 5 tables. Minor revisions for improved clarity. Version accepted by MNRAS

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