The scale of cosmic homogeneity as a standard ruler

Abstract

In this paper, we study the characteristic scale of transition to cosmic homogeneity of the universe, ${\mathcal{R}}_H$, as a standard ruler, to constrain cosmological parameters on mock galaxy catalogues. We use mock galaxy catalogues that simulate the CMASS galaxy sample of the BOSS survey in the redshift range $0.43\le z\le 0.7$. In each redshift bin we obtain the homogeneity scale, defined as the scale at which the universe becomes homogeneous to $1\%$, i.e. $D_2({\mathcal{R}}_H)=2.97$. With a simple Fisher analysis, we find that the performance of measuring the cosmological parameters with either the position of the BAO peak or the homogeneity scale is comparable. We show that ${\mathcal{R}}_H$ has a dependence on the galaxy bias. If the accuracy and precision of this bias is achieved to $1\%$, as expected for future surveys, then ${\mathcal{R}}_H$ is a competitive standard ruler.

arXiv comment10 pages, 2 figures, published to JCAP, minor changes according to the published version

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