Peaks, Exclusion, and BAO
Tobias Baldauf
September 24, 2015
The interpretation of low-redshift galaxy surveys is more complicated than the interpretation of CMB temperature anisotropies. First, the matter distribution evolves nonlinearly at low redshift, limiting the use of perturbative methods. Secondly, we observe galaxies, rather than the underlying matter field. Fortunately, considerable progress has been made in understanding the large-scale structure of galaxies. A key insight has been that galaxies form in bound structures called halos, whose statistics (e.g.