Impact of intrinsic alignments on clustering constraints of the growth rate

Abstract

Intrinsic alignments between galaxies and the large-scale structure contaminate galaxy clustering analyses and impact constraints on galaxy bias and the growth rate of structure in the Universe. This is the result of alignments inducing a selection effect on spectroscopic samples which is correlated with the large-scale structure. In this work, we quantify the biases on galaxy bias and the growth rate when alignments are neglected. We also examine different options for the mitigation of alignments by considering external priors on the effect and different probe combinations. We find that conservative analyses that restrict to $k_{\max }=0.1$ Mpc${}^{-1}$ are not significantly affected. However, analyses that aim to go to higher wave numbers could evidence a significant contamination from alignments. In those cases, including a prior on alignment amplitude, or combining clustering with the position-intrinsic shape correlation of galaxies, can recover the same expected constraining power, or even inform bias and growth rate measurements.

8 pages, 3 figures

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