The Light-cone Effect on the Clustering Statistics in the Cosmological Redshift Space

Abstract

We present a theoretical formalism to predict the two-point clustering statistics (the power spectrum and the two-point correlation function), simultaneously taking account of the linear velocity distortion, the nonlinear velocity distortion (finger-of-god), the cosmological redshift-space distortion and the light-cone effect. To demonstrate the importance of these effects in exploring the clustering of objects at high redshifts, we show several model predictions for magnitude-limited surveys of galaxies and quasars. This methodology provides a quantitative tool to confront theoretical models against the upcoming precision data on clustering in the universe.

8 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ (2000)