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标定对剪切测量偏差的影响

The Effects of Calibration on the Bias of Shear Measurements

Bryan R. Gillis, A. N. Taylor

摘要:

即将到来的大规模巡天将很快尝试以前所未有的精度测量宇宙剪切,这要求在星系剪切测量中具有类似的高精度。像素化、不完善的点扩散函数(PSF)校正和像素噪声等因素都可能直接或间接导致剪切测量中的偏差,因此可能需要针对内部、外部或模拟数据校准剪切测量方法,以使偏差最小化。因此,理解这种校准的性质是很重要的。在本文中,我们表明,一个典型的校准过程中,平均不会留下任何残余的加性偏差,但会留下一个残余的乘性偏差。此外,校准后偏差参数的误差将从这些参数的校准前测量的误差改变,并且平均增加,但是这在降低乘性偏差的预期值方面通常是值得的。我们发现,在大多数典型的情况下,这是值得应用一阶偏置校正,而高阶偏置校正是唯一值得的方法与固有的高乘法偏差($>10$百分比)或当模拟的大小是非常小的($<10^6$模拟星系)。

英文摘要:

Forthcoming large-scale surveys will soon attempt to measure cosmic shear to an unprecedented level of accuracy, requiring a similarly high level of accuracy in the shear measurements of galaxies. Factors such as pixelisation, imperfect point-spread function (PSF) correction, and pixel noise can all directly or indirectly lead to biases in shear measurements, and so it can be necessary for shear measurement methods to be calibrated against internal, external, or simulated data to minimize bias. It is thus important to understand the nature of this calibration. In this paper, we show that a typical calibration procedure will on average leave no residual additive bias, but will leave a residual multiplicative bias. Additionally, the errors on the post-calibration bias parameters will be changed, and on average increased, from the errors on the pre-calibration measurements of these parameters, but that this is generally worth the benefit in decreasing the expected value of the multiplicative bias. We find that in most typical cases, it is worthwhile to apply a first-order bias correction, while a higher-order bias correction is only worthwhile for methods with intrinsically high multiplicative bias ($>10$ per cent) or when the simulation size is very small ($<10^6$ simulated galaxies).

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