Université de GenèveDépartement de Physique ThéoriqueCAP Genève

A null test to probe the scale-invariance of the growth of structure

Date: 
12. April 2019 - 11:30
Speaker: 
Felipe Oliveira (Université de Genève)
One specific property of the LCDM model is that the way structures are growing as a function of time is scale-independent. In this talk, I will show how to construct a null test to probe this property in a model-independent way. For this, I will combine different observables, namely the quadrupole and hexadecapole of the galaxy number counts, and the Doppler magnification dipole. This last observable is obtained by cross-correlating galaxy number counts with the cosmic convergence. I will show that deviations in the scale-independence of a few percents can be detected with a survey like SKA.

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Université de Genève
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