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弱透镜巡天测光红移散射的自定标

Self calibration of photometric redshift scatter in weak lensing surveys

Pengjie Zhang, Ue-Li Pen, Gary Bernstein

摘要:

光z误差,特别是灾变误差,是精密弱透镜宇宙学的主要不确定性。我们发现,剪切(星系数)的密度和密度-密度之间的互相关测量photo-z箱,可从相同的透镜调查,包含有价值的信息的自校准的真Z和photo-z箱之间的散射概率。我们提出的自校准技术不依赖于宇宙学的先验知识,也不依赖于photo-z概率分布函数的参数化,并保留了所有的宇宙学信息,可从剪切剪切测量。我们通过Fisher矩阵形式估计校准精度。我们发现,先进的透镜调查,如计划的第四阶段调查,率的照片-Z离群值可以确定与统计不确定性为0.01-1%的$z<2$星系。在我们识别和研究的几个校准误差来源中,{ \it星系分布偏差}可能是最主要的系统误差,因此,照片-z离群值具有不同的红移分布和/或偏差,而非离群值来自同一个bin。这种偏差会影响所有基于相关测量的光z校准技术。星系偏差变化的$O(0.1)$产生的偏差在photo-z离群率类似于我们的方法的统计误差,所以这个星系分布的偏差可能会偏向重建的散射在几个$σ$水平,但不太可能完全无效的自校准技术。

英文摘要:

Photo-z errors, especially catastrophic errors, are a major uncertainty for precision weak lensing cosmology. We find that the shear-(galaxy number) density and density-density cross correlation measurements between photo-z bins, available from the same lensing surveys, contain valuable information for self-calibration of the scattering probabilities between the true-z and photo-z bins. The self-calibration technique we propose does not rely on cosmological priors nor parameterization of the photo-z probability distribution function, and preserves all of the cosmological information available from shear-shear measurement. We estimate the calibration accuracy through the Fisher matrix formalism. We find that, for advanced lensing surveys such as the planned stage IV surveys, the rate of photo-z outliers can be determined with statistical uncertainties of 0.01-1% for $z<2$ galaxies. Among the several sources of calibration error that we identify and investigate, the {\it galaxy distribution bias} is likely the most dominant systematic error, whereby photo-z outliers have different redshift distributions and/or bias than non-outliers from the same bin. This bias affects all photo-z calibration techniques based on correlation measurements. Galaxy bias variations of $O(0.1)$ produce biases in photo-z outlier rates similar to the statistical errors of our method, so this galaxy distribution bias may bias the reconstructed scatters at several-$σ$ level, but is unlikely to completely invalidate the self-calibration technique.

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