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剪切峰统计的宇宙学

Cosmology with the shear-peak statistics

J. P. Dietrich, J. Hartlap

摘要:

对星系团的弱透镜搜索被低完整性和纯度所困扰,严重限制了它们用星系团质量函数约束宇宙学参数的有用性。“假阳性”的很大一部分是由于大尺度结构的投影,因此携带了关于物质分布的信息。我们证明,通过构造一个“峰函数”,在类比的集群质量函数,宇宙学参数可以被约束。为此,我们在Ω_m-σ_8平面上进行了大量的宇宙学N体模拟,研究了这个峰函数的变化。我们表明,峰值统计能够提供竞争的约束条件,从宇宙剪切断层扫描从相同的数据集。通过考虑峰值统计量和宇宙切变之间的全互协方差,我们表明,这两种方法的组合导致更严格的约束比单独使用任何一种方法都可以提供。

英文摘要:

Weak-lensing searches for galaxy clusters are plagued by low completeness and purity, severely limiting their usefulness for constraining cosmological parameters with the cluster mass function. A significant fraction of `false positives' are due to projection of large-scale structure and as such carry information about the matter distribution. We demonstrate that by constructing a "peak function", in analogy to the cluster mass function, cosmological parameters can be constrained. To this end we carried out a large number of cosmological N-body simulations in the Ω_m-σ_8 plane to study the variation of this peak function. We demonstrate that the peak statistics is able to provide constraints competitive with those obtained from cosmic-shear tomography from the same data set. By taking the full cross-covariance between the peak statistics and cosmic shear into account, we show that the combination of both methods leads to tighter constraints than either method alone can provide.

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