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用正演模拟进行宇宙剪切校准

Cosmic shear calibration with forward modeling

Claudio Bruderer, Andrina Nicola, Adam Amara, Alexandre Refregier, Jörg Herbel, Tomasz Kacprzak

摘要:

弱引力透镜是探测宇宙暗区的有力工具。这项技术的主要挑战之一是在从星系形状测量宇宙剪切时的系统学处理。在早期的工作中,Refregier和Amara(2014)提出了蒙特卡洛控制回路(MCCL),以使用正向建模方法来克服这些影响。我们在这里集中在该方法中的控制回路之一,其任务是剪切测量的校准。为此,我们首先考虑对剪切系统学的要求,为一个给定的调查,并传播到不同的系统学术语。我们使用两个单点统计量来校准剪切测量和六个进一步的单点统计量作为诊断。对于不同的系统误差源,我们还将我们估计的系统水平从一点函数传播到两点函数。这使我们能够评估以不同方式测量的系统学水平之间的一致性。为了测试该方法,我们构建了具有1,700度$^2$区域的合成天空调查。通过一些简化的假设,我们能够满足这种测量配置的剪切校准要求。此外,我们占总的剩余剪切系统的贡献源。我们将讨论如何将这个MCCL框架可以应用到当前和未来的弱透镜调查。

英文摘要:

Weak Gravitational Lensing is a powerful probe of the dark sector of the Universe. One of the main challenges for this technique is the treatment of systematics in the measurement of cosmic shear from galaxy shapes. In an earlier work, Refregier & Amara (2014) have proposed the Monte Carlo Control Loops (MCCL) to overcome these effects using a forward modeling approach. We focus here on one of the control loops in this method, the task of which is the calibration of the shear measurement. For this purpose, we first consider the requirements on the shear systematics for a given survey and propagate them to different systematics terms. We use two one-point statistics to calibrate the shear measurement and six further one-point statistics as diagnostics. We also propagate the systematics levels that we estimate from the one-point functions to the two-point functions for the different systematic error sources. This allows us to assess the consistency between the systematics levels measured in different ways. To test the method, we construct synthetic sky surveys with an area of 1,700 deg$^2$. With some simplifying assumptions, we are able to meet the requirements on the shear calibration for this survey configuration. Furthermore, we account for the total residual shear systematics in terms of the contributing sources. We discuss how this MCCL framework can be applied to current and future weak lensing surveys.

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