COLÓQUIO DO DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA MATEMÁTICA
DIA 23/02/2016 (terça-feira) - 11h - Sala Jayme Tiomno
Título: Relativistic effects in the galaxy number counts bispectrum as a new tool in cosmology
Palestrante: Dr. Giovanni Marozzi (Université de Genève)
Abstract: In the near future cosmology will enter a new era in which the use of Newtonian gravity will no longer be sufficient in studying large scale structure (LSS). The next generation of LSS survey will probe the Universe with high precision and at very different scales, where non-linear and relativistic effects can play a key role. In this colloquium, I will present a new coordinate system, called geodesic light-cone (GLC) coordinates, useful to take in account such non-linear effects. In particular, I will show how, using the GLC gauge, one can determine the galaxy number counts in a purely geometric way, and up to second order in cosmological perturbation theory in the Poisson gauge. To conclude, I will present the numerical results for the leading non-linear and relativistic contributions to the number counts bispectrum, comparing them with the usual term from weakly non-linear Newtonian gravitational clustering and showing when the lensing-like contributions can become non n!
egligible or even dominate the signal.
