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Anisotropic Counts-in-Cells in Redshift Space: A New Route to Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Surveys
Paweł Drozda, Wojciech A. Hellwing, Maciej Bilicki
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We introduce a novel extension of the volume-averaged correlation function (VACF) framework by replacing the traditional spherical smoothing kernels with anisotropic, ellipsoidal windows. This generalized approach enables the study of shape-dependent clustering statistics and captures directional information encoded in large-scale structure, particularly in redshift space where galaxy distribution is distorted by peculiar velocities. We define and compute ellipsoidal VACFs ξ̅_J (r_∥, r_⊥) and the corresponding reduced cumulants s_J (r_∥, r_⊥), allowing for joint sensitivity to both scale and anisotropy across arbitrary statistical order J. Using a suite of COLA N-body simulations spanning a grid of cosmologies with varying Ω_M and σ₈, we analyze the behavior of ellipsoidal VACFs and cumulants in both real and redshift space. We find that the shape of the smoothing kernel that maximizes the clustering signal depends strongly on the redshift-space distortion regime: spherical in real space, prolate in the Fingers-of-God-dominated regime, and oblate in the Kaiser squashing-dominated regime. While the standard VACF amplitude is mainly sensitive to σ₈, the shape-dependence of redshift-space skewness shows a coherent response to the combined growth parameter f σ₈, with a typical sensitivity at the 1-3 σ level between neighboring models. Our results demonstrate that ellipsoidal VACFs offer a computationally efficient and information-rich generalization of counts-in-cells analysis, with promising applications to galaxy survey data, halo catalogs, and cosmological tests of gravity beyond ΛCDM.
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