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星系透镜交叉关联的放大率偏差修正

Magnification Bias Corrections to Galaxy-Lensing Cross-Correlations

R. Ziour, L. Hui

摘要:

星系-星系或星系-类星体透镜效应可以提供有关宇宙质量分布的重要信息。它包括相关的透镜信号(无论是剪切或放大)的背景星系/类星体样本与前景星系样本的数密度。然而,前景星系的密度不可避免地会因为前景星系和观测者之间的质量而产生的放大偏差而改变,从而导致对观测到的星系透镜信号的修正。本文的目的是量化这种修正。唯一最重要的决定因素是前景星系的红移z:如果前景星系的红移较低,则修正很小,但如果红移足够高,修正就变得不可忽略。例如,我们发现,对于多极l=1000,当z<0.37时,校正值在1%*(5s-2)/b以上,当z<0.67时,校正值在5%*(5s-2)/b以上,其中s是前景样本的计数斜率,b是星系偏差。假设(5s-2)/b=1,我们发现,为了避免推导出的暗能量状态方程w的偏差超过5%,前景红移应该限制在z<0.45,并且即使对于低的前景红移,(< 0.45),背景样本必须与前景很好地分离,以避免引起类似幅度的偏差。最后,我们简要地评论获得这些几何措施,而不使用星系的形状,使用放大率偏置本身的可能性。

英文摘要:

Galaxy-galaxy or galaxy-quasar lensing can provide important information on the mass distribution in the Universe. It consists of correlating the lensing signal (either shear or magnification) of a background galaxy/quasar sample with the number density of a foreground galaxy sample. However, the foreground galaxy density is inevitably altered by the magnification bias due to the mass between the foreground and the observer, leading to a correction to the observed galaxy-lensing signal. The aim of this paper is to quantify this correction. The single most important determining factor is the foreground redshift z: the correction is small if the foreground galaxies are at low redshifts but can become non-negligible for sufficiently high redshifts. For instance, we find that for the multipole l=1000, the correction is above 1%*(5s-2)/b for z<0.37, and above 5%*(5s-2)/b for z<0.67, where s is the number count slope of the foreground sample, and b its galaxy bias. These considerations are particularly important for geometrical measures, such as the Jain and Taylor ratio or its generalization by Zhang et al. Assuming (5s-2)/b=1, we find that the foreground redshift should be limited to z<0.45 in order to avoid biasing the inferred dark energy equation of state w by more than 5%, and that even for a low foreground redshift (< 0.45), the background samples must be well separated from the foreground to avoid incurring a bias of similar magnitude. Lastly, we briefly comment on the possibility of obtaining these geometrical measures without using galaxy shapes, using instead magnification bias itself.

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