Effects of Smoothing Functions in Cosmological Counts-in-Cells Analysis
arXiv:astro-ph/0612478 · doi:10.1093/pasj/59.1.73
Abstract
A method of counts-in-cells analysis of galaxy distribution is investigated with arbitrary smoothing functions in obtaining the galaxy counts. We explore the possiblity of optimizing the smoothing function, considering a series of -weight Epanechnikov kernels. The popular top-hat and Gaussian smoothing functions are two special cases in this series. In this paper, we mainly consider the second moments of counts-in-cells as a first step. We analytically derive the covariance matrix among different smoothing scales of cells, taking into account possible overlaps between cells. We find that the Epanechnikov kernel of is better than top-hat and Gaussian smoothing functions in estimating cosmological parameters. As an example, we estimate expected parameter bounds which comes only from the analysis of second moments of galaxy distributions in a survey which is similar to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
arXiv comment33 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ (Vol.59, No.1 in press)
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