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用SDSS和VLA FIRST巡天互相关宇宙切变

Cross-correlation cosmic shear with the SDSS and VLA FIRST surveys

Constantinos Demetroullas, Michael L. Brown

摘要:

我们通过将SDSS光学巡天测量到的约900万个星系的形状与VLA-FIRST重叠巡天测量到的约2.7x10^5个射电星系的形状进行互相关,测量了大角度尺度上的宇宙剪切功率谱。我们的测量跨越多极范围10 <1 < 130,对应于角标度2deg < θ <20 deg。在这些尺度上,剪切图从两个调查遭受显着的系统性影响,禁止测量的剪切功率谱从任何一个单独的调查。相反,我们证明,通过互相关的两个调查测量的功率谱是无偏的。我们从99%置信度(~2.7σ)下与零信号不一致的数据测量E-模式功率谱。发现奇校验B模式信号和EB互相关都与零一致(在1σ内)。这些约束条件是经过仔细的误差分析后获得的,该分析考虑了由于宇宙方差,随机星系形状噪声和形状测量误差以及与两次调查中观察到的大规模系统效应相关的其他误差而引起的不确定性。我们的约束条件是一致的和谐宇宙学模型中的预期信号,假设最近估计的宇宙学参数从普朗克卫星,和文献值的SDSS和第一星系人口的中位数红移。本文描述的互功率谱方法是一种强大的技术,用于减轻剪切系统,并将是理想的提取强大的结果,与系统所需的精细控制,从未来的宇宙剪切调查与SKA,LSST,欧几里得和WFIRST AFTA。

英文摘要:

We measure the cosmic shear power spectrum on large angular scales by cross-correlating the shapes of ~9 million galaxies measured in the optical SDSS survey with the shapes of ~2.7x10^5 radio galaxies measured by the overlapping VLA-FIRST survey. Our measurements span the multipole range 10 < l < 130, corresponding to angular scales 2deg < θ < 20deg. On these scales, the shear maps from both surveys suffer from significant systematic effects that prohibit a measurement of the shear power spectrum from either survey alone. Conversely we demonstrate that a power spectrum measured by cross-correlating the two surveys is unbiased. We measure an E-mode power spectrum from the data that is inconsistent with zero signal at the 99\% confidence (~2.7σ) level. The odd-parity B-mode signal and the EB cross- correlation are both found to be consistent with zero (within 1σ). These constraints are obtained after a careful error analysis that accounts for uncertainties due to cosmic variance, random galaxy shape noise and shape measurement errors, as well as additional errors associated with the observed large-scale systematic effects in the two surveys. Our constraints are consistent with the expected signal in the concordance cosmological model assuming recent estimates of the cosmological parameters from the Planck satellite, and literature values for the median redshifts of the SDSS and FIRST galaxy populations. The cross-power spectrum approach described in this paper represents a powerful technique for mitigating shear systematics and will be ideal for extracting robust results, with the exquisite control of systematics required, from future cosmic shear surveys with the SKA, LSST, Euclid and WFIRST-AFTA.

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