Physics - Astrophysics of Galaxies Physics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Physics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Physics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Physics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Physics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Astrophys.J.552:413,2001 In this paper, we present a redshift space reconstruction scheme which is
analogous to and extends the Perturbative Least Action (PLA) method described
by Goldberg & Spergel (2000). We first show that this scheme is effective in
reconstructing even nonlinear observations. We then suggest that by varying the
cosmology to minimize the quadrupole moment of a reconstructed density field,
it may be possible to lower the errorbars on the redshift distortion parameter,
$\beta$ as well as to break the degeneracy between the linear bias parameter,
$b$, and $\Omega_M$. Finally, we discuss how PLA might be applied to realistic
redshift surveys.