Cosmological Parameters from Eigenmode Analysis of Sloan Digital Sky Survey Galaxy Redshifts

摘要

We present estimates of cosmological parameters from the application of the Karhunen-Loève transform to the analysis of the 3D power spectrum of density fluctuations using Sloan Digital Sky Survey galaxy redshifts. We use mh and fb = b/m to describe the shape of the power spectrum, for the (linearly extrapolated) normalization, and to parametrize linear theory redshift space distortions. On scales k 0.16hMpc–1, our maximum likelihood values are mh = 0.264 ± 0.043, fb = 0.286 ± 0.065, = 0.966 ± 0.048, and = 0.45 ± 0.12. When we take a prior on b from WMAP, we find mh = 0.207 ± 0.030, which is in excellent agreement with WMAP and 2dF. This indicates that we have reasonably measured the gross shape of the power spectrum but we have difficulty breaking the degeneracy between mh and fb because the baryon oscillations are not resolved in the current spectroscopic survey window function.