Evolution of intrinsic ellipticity correlations due to peculiar motion
  Topic of this paper is the time-evolution of intrinsic correlations of galaxy
ellipticities due to peculiar motion. In our model, the galaxy ellipticities
are determined from the angular momentum of their host haloes, which can be
computed from the fluctuations statistics of a Gaussian random field.
Subsequent peculiar motion distorts the ellipticity field and causes changes in
the ellipticity correlations. Using analogies between this problem of shifted
ellipticity tensors and the displacements of polarisation tensors in
gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background we compute E-mode and
B-mode spectra of the time-evolved ellipticity field, where the displacements
are modelled with first and second order Lagrangian perturbation theory. For
EUCLID, ellipticity correlations are decreased on large multipoles l >1000,
amounting to up to 10% in the E-mode spectrum C_E^epsilon(l) and up to 60% in
the B-mode spectrum C_B^epsilon(l) at l~3000 due to the dispersing effect of
peculiar motion. E/B-mode conversion in analogy to CMB-lensing is present but
small. We conclude that distortions of the ellipticity field due to peculiar
motion is not affecting the prediction of ellipticity models on the scales
relevant for lensing in the case of EUCLID's galaxy distribution, but should
affect larger scales for surveys at lower redshifts.
