Chapter
Testing Cosmic Fluctuation Spectra
Abstract
We show that the angular correlation function of galaxies, wgg(θ), may be used as a direct test of large scale power in cosmic density fluctuation spectra. Groth and Peebles (1986) found a break in w(θ) from a power-law at θ ∼ 3° in an analysis of the Shane-Wirtanen galaxy counts. Maddox and Efstathiou (1987) find evidence for a similar break in w(θ) in the Southern Sky Survey. Testing for a break is a powerful probe of the linear regime of …
Authors
Couchman HMP; Bond JR
Book title
Large Scale Structure and Motions in the Universe
Series
Astrophysics and Space Science Library
Volume
151
Pagination
pp. 335-336
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
1989
DOI
10.1007/978-94-009-0903-8_31