Observed galaxy number counts on the lightcone up to third order

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Autores principales: Gervani, Lorenzo, Bertacca, Daniele, Bartolo, Nicola
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Publicado: 2025
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author Gervani, Lorenzo
Bertacca, Daniele
Bartolo, Nicola
author_facet Gervani, Lorenzo
Bertacca, Daniele
Bartolo, Nicola
contents In this work we provide a detailed derivation of the observed galaxy number over-density obtained by computing cosmological perturbations up to third order in redshift space and on very large scales. We compute all the relativistic and projection effects, arising from the observation of galaxies on the past light cone, including all redshift effects, i.e. peculiar velocities, Sachs-Wolfe (SW) effects, integrated SW effects, gravitational lensing and time delay terms. Moreover, we have considered all post- and post-post-Born contributions from the photon geodesic equations in order to take into account all possible effects due to the lensing distortions. The derivation is performed in the Poisson gauge. This work largely follows the formalism used in (Bertacca et al. 2014a, Bertacca et al. 2014b, Bertacca 2015, Bertacca et al. 2020), pushing it for the first time up to the third perturbative order. This result will be important for a variety of applications, such as a complete estimation of projection effects and the investigation of possible parity violation signatures in the 3- and 4-point galaxy correlation functions.
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spellingShingle Observed galaxy number counts on the lightcone up to third order
Gervani, Lorenzo
Bertacca, Daniele
Bartolo, Nicola
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
In this work we provide a detailed derivation of the observed galaxy number over-density obtained by computing cosmological perturbations up to third order in redshift space and on very large scales. We compute all the relativistic and projection effects, arising from the observation of galaxies on the past light cone, including all redshift effects, i.e. peculiar velocities, Sachs-Wolfe (SW) effects, integrated SW effects, gravitational lensing and time delay terms. Moreover, we have considered all post- and post-post-Born contributions from the photon geodesic equations in order to take into account all possible effects due to the lensing distortions. The derivation is performed in the Poisson gauge. This work largely follows the formalism used in (Bertacca et al. 2014a, Bertacca et al. 2014b, Bertacca 2015, Bertacca et al. 2020), pushing it for the first time up to the third perturbative order. This result will be important for a variety of applications, such as a complete estimation of projection effects and the investigation of possible parity violation signatures in the 3- and 4-point galaxy correlation functions.
title Observed galaxy number counts on the lightcone up to third order
topic Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11191