Redshift distortions of galaxy correlation functions

Abstract

To examine how peculiar velocities can affect the 2-, 3-, and 4-point redshift correlation functions, we evaluate volume-average correlations for configurations that emphasize and minimize redshift distortions for four different volume-limited samples from each of the CfA, SSRS, and IRAS redshift catalogs. We find a characteristic distortion for the 2-point correlation, $\xibar_2$: the slope $\gamma$ is flatter and the correlation length is larger in redshift space than in real space; that is, redshift distortions ``move'' correlations from small to large scales. At the largest scales (up to $12 \Mpc$), the extra power in the redshift distribution is compatible with ${\Omega }^{4/7}/b\approx 1$. We estimate ${\Omega }^{4/7}/b$ to be $0.53\pm 0.15$, $1.10\pm 0.16$ and $0.84\pm 0.45$ for the CfA, SSRS and IRAS catalogs. Higher order correlations $\xibar_3$ and $\xibar_4$ suffer similar redshift distortions, but in such a way that, within the accuracy of our analysis, the normalized amplitudes $S_3$ and $S_4$ are insensitive to this effect. The hierarchical amplitudes $S_3$ and $S_4$ are constant as a function of scale between 1--$12 \Mpc$ and have similar values in all samples and catalogues, $S_3\approx 2$ and $S_4\approx 6$, despite the fact that $\xibar_2$, $\xibar_3$, and $\xibar_4$ differ from one sample to another by large factors (up to a factor of 4 in $\xibar_2$, 8 for $\xibar_3$, and 12 for $\xibar_4$). The agreement between the independent estimations of $S_3$ and $S_4$

20 pages (12 figues available on request), LaTeX, FERMILAB-Pub-93-097-A

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