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Figure 1: These four galaxy subsets cannot all trace
the same matter distribution - not even if you allow different bias factors.
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Observational evidence for stochastic biasing
Authors:
Max Tegmark & Ben
Bromley
Abstract:
We show that the galaxy density in the Las
Campanas Redshift Survey (LCRS) cannot be perfectly correlated with
the underlying mass distribution since various galaxy subpopulations are
not perfectly correlated with each other, even taking shot noise into account.
This rules out the hypothesis of simple linear biasing, and suggests that
the recently proposed stochastic biasing framework is necessary for modeling
actual data.
Reference info:
astro-ph/9809324, accepted for publication in ApJL
Figure 2: A generalized chi2-test shows that weighted differences
of the maps of figure 1 are inconsistent with mere shot noise.
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This is my third paper in a series about stochastic bias - the other two
are here.
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