Chen, Song: Large scale structures and radio galaxy survey. 2015
Inhalt
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- 1 The Large Scale Structure of the Universe
- 1.1 Homogeneity and Isotropy
- 1.2 Inhomogeneity and Cosmological Perturbations
- 1.3 The Composition of the Universe
- 1.4 History of Radio Cosmology
- 1.5 Radio Cosmology after Planck
- 2 Perturbation Theory and Galaxy Number Counts
- 2.1 Metric Perturbations
- 2.2 Gauge-invariant Metric Potentials
- 2.3 Galaxy Number Counts I
- 2.4 Coordinates of the Observer
- 2.4.1 Conformal Transformation
- 2.4.2 Redshift Distortions
- 2.4.3 Specific Flux Fluctuations
- 2.4.4 Number Counts in Observed Spherical Coordinates and Lensing Effect
- 2.5 Galaxy Number Counts II
- 3 Predictions for Galaxy two-point Statistics
- 4 NVSS Angular Power Spectrum and two-point Correlation
- 4.1 The NVSS Catalogue
- 4.2 Lower Flux Density Threshold
- 4.3 Masking Strategy
- 4.4 Theoretical Expectation
- 4.5 Results
- 5 Discussion
- 5.1 Cosmological Implications
- 5.2 Residual Systematics
- 5.3 Parity Asymmetry
- 5.4 Next-to-leading order Effects in the Radio Galaxy Angular Power Spectrum
- 6 Conclusion
- References