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弱透镜三点统计的污染源:来自N体模拟的约束

Sources of contamination to weak lensing three-point statistics: constraints from N-body simulations

Elisabetta Semboloni, Catherine Heymans, Ludovic van Waerbeke, Peter Schneider

摘要:

我们研究了观测到的星系形状与其周围密度场之间的相关性对三阶弱透镜剪切统计测量的影响。使用数值模拟,我们估计的系统误差的贡献,从三点内禀椭圆相关性(III)的光圈质量统计(GGG)的三阶矩的测量,和三点之间的耦合弱透镜剪切经历遥远的星系和前景星系(GGI和GII)的形状。我们发现,三阶弱透镜统计通常更强烈地污染这些物理系统相比,二阶剪切测量,污染测量的三点信号的中等深度的调查与中位红移z_m ~ 0.7 ~ 15%。它已经表明,准确的光度红移将是至关重要的,以纠正这种影响,一旦模型和红移的依赖性的效果可以准确地约束。为此,我们提供了红移相关的拟合函数,我们的结果,并提出了一个新的工具,观测研究的内在星系排列。对于z_m ~ 0.4的浅层观测,我们发现III比预期的宇宙学GGG剪切信号大一个数量级。相比,两点的内在椭圆相关性,这是类似的振幅在这些调查深度的两点剪切信号,因此,三阶统计提供了一个有前途的新方法来约束模型的内在星系的路线。来自下一代非常宽的弱透镜测量的早期浅层数据将是这种研究的最佳选择。

英文摘要:

We investigate the impact of the observed correlation between a galaxies shape and its surrounding density field on the measurement of third order weak lensing shear statistics. Using numerical simulations, we estimate the systematic error contribution to a measurement of the third order moment of the aperture mass statistic (GGG) from three-point intrinsic ellipticity correlations (III), and the three-point coupling between the weak lensing shear experienced by distant galaxies and the shape of foreground galaxies (GGI and GII). We find that third-order weak lensing statistics are typically more strongly contaminated by these physical systematics compared to second-order shear measurements, contaminating the measured three-point signal for moderately deep surveys with a median redshift z_m ~ 0.7 by ~ 15%. It has been shown that accurate photometric redshifts will be crucial to correct for this effect, once a model and the redshift dependence of the effect can be accurately constrained. To this end we provide redshift-dependent fitting functions to our results and propose a new tool for the observational study of intrinsic galaxy alignments. For a shallow survey with z_m ~ 0.4 we find III to be an order of magnitude larger than the expected cosmological GGG shear signal. Compared to the two-point intrinsic ellipticity correlation which is similar in amplitude to the two-point shear signal at these survey depths, third order statistics therefore offer a promising new way to constrain models of intrinsic galaxy alignments. Early shallow data from the next generation of very wide weak lensing surveys will be optimal for this type of study.

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