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内禀排列自校准对未来宇宙剪切巡天宇宙学参数约束的影响

Effects of Self-Calibration of Intrinsic Alignment on Cosmological Parameter Constraints from Future Cosmic Shear Surveys

Ji Yao, Mustapha Ishak, Weikang Lin, M. A. Troxel

摘要:

星系的内禀排列(IA)是影响星系弱透镜效应的重要因素之一。这些系统需要被隔离和减轻,以便正在进行的和未来的透镜调查,以充分发挥其潜力。在先前的研究中,IA自校准(SC)方法显示能够将GI污染降低至2点和3点相关性的10倍。SC方法在其工作中不需要假设IA模型,并且可以从相同的photo-z勘测中提取GI信号,从而提供测试和理解构造形成情景及其与IA模型的关系的可能性。在本文中,我们研究了IA SC缓解方法对未来的宇宙剪切巡天LSST,WFIRST和Euclid的宇宙学参数约束的精度和准确性的影响。我们进行了分析和数值计算,以估计损失的精度和剩余偏差的最佳拟合的宇宙学参数进行自校准后。我们考虑到光度红移和星系偏差的不确定性。我们发现,置信度轮廓略有膨胀,从应用SC方法本身,而显着增加是由于列入的照片-z的不确定性。宇宙学参数的偏差从不作IA校正时的几个- $σ$减小到应用SC后的1- $σ$以下。这些数字是可比的IA模型参数的边缘化的方法,尽管这两种方法的操作非常不同。我们的结论是,实施SC这些未来的宇宙剪切调查将不仅允许一个有效地减轻GI污染,但也有助于了解他们的建模和链接到结构形成。

英文摘要:

Intrinsic alignments (IA) of galaxies have been recognized as one of the most serious contaminants to weak lensing. These systematics need to be isolated and mitigated in order for ongoing and future lensing surveys to reach their full potential. The IA self-calibration (SC) method was shown in previous studies to be able to reduce the GI contamination by up to a factor of 10 for the 2-point and 3-point correlations. The SC method does not require to assume an IA model in its working and can extract the GI signal from the same photo-z survey offering the possibility to test and understand structure formation scenarios and their relationship to IA models. In this paper, we study the effects of the IA SC mitigation method on the precision and accuracy of cosmological parameter constraints from future cosmic shear surveys LSST, WFIRST and Euclid. We perform analytical and numerical calculations to estimate the loss of precision and the residual bias in the best fit cosmological parameters after the self-calibration is performed. We take into account uncertainties from photometric redshifts and the galaxy bias. We find that the confidence contours are slightly inflated from applying the SC method itself while a significant increase is due to the inclusion of the photo-z uncertainties. The bias of cosmological parameters is reduced from several-$σ$, when IA is not corrected for, to below 1-$σ$ after SC is applied. These numbers are comparable to those resulting from applying the method of marginalizing over IA model parameters despite the fact that the two methods operate very differently. We conclude that implementing the SC for these future cosmic-shear surveys will not only allow one to efficiently mitigate the GI contaminant but also help to understand their modeling and link to structure formation.

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