We present updated cosmological constraints for the KiDS+VIKING-450 cosmic shear data set (KV450), estimated using redshift distributions and photometric samples defined using self-organising maps (SOMs). Our fiducial analysis finds marginal posterior constraints of $S_8\equivσ_8\sqrt{Ω_{\rm m}/0.3}=0.716^{+0.043}_{-0.038}$; smaller than, but otherwise consistent with, previous work using this data set ($|ΔS_8| = 0.023$). We analyse additional samples and redshift distributions constructed in three ways: excluding certain spectroscopic surveys during redshift calibration, excluding lower-confidence spectroscopic redshifts in redshift calibration, and considering only photometric sources which are jointly calibrated by at least three spectroscopic surveys. In all cases, the method utilised here proves robust: we find a maximal deviation from our fiducial analysis of $|ΔS_8| \leq 0.011$ for all samples defined and analysed using our SOM. To demonstrate the reduction in systematic biases found within our analysis, we highlight our results when performing redshift calibration without the DEEP2 spectroscopic data set. In this case we find marginal posterior constraints of $S_8=0.707_{-0.042}^{+0.046}$; a difference with respect to the fiducial that is both significantly smaller than, and in the opposite direction to, the equivalent shift from previous work. These results suggest that our improved cosmological parameter estimates are insensitive to pathological misrepresentation of photometric sources by the spectroscopy used for direct redshift calibration, and therefore that this systematic effect cannot be responsible for the observed difference between $S_8$ estimates made with KV450 and Planck CMB probes.
KiDS+VIKING+GAMA: Halo occupation distributions and correlations of satellite numbers with a new halo model of the galaxy-matter bispectrum for galaxy-galaxy-galaxy lensing
Photometric Redshift Calibration with Self Organising Maps
精确的测光红移校准是从宇宙剪切调查的所有宇宙学约束的鲁棒性的核心。对KiDS的分析重新加权了来自所有重叠光谱调查的训练样本,以提供直接的红移校准。使用自组织映射(SOM),我们证明了这种光谱编译是足够完整的KiDS,代表$99\%$的有效的二维宇宙剪切样本。我们使用SOM来定义一个$100\%$代表“金”宇宙剪切样本,每个层析箱。使用模拟模拟KiDS和光谱训练集,我们估计的不确定性的SOM红移校准,并发现光度噪声,样本方差,光谱选择效应(包括红移和幅度不完整性)诱导合并的最大散射的红移分布重建($Δ\langle z \rangle=\langle z \rangle_{\rm est}-\langle z \rangle_{\rm true}$)的偏差$σ_{Δ\langle z \rangle} \leq 0.006$在所有的层析箱。我们表明,SOM校准是无偏的情况下,无噪声测光和完全代表性的光谱数据集,从理论上预期。在我们的模拟数据中包括光度噪声和光谱选择效应引入了最大偏差$Δ\langle z \rangle =0.013\pm0.006$,或$97.5\%$置信度下的$Δ\langle z \rangle \leq 0.025$,一旦质量标志已应用于SOM。这里提出的方法是一个显着的改进,以前采用的直接红移校准实施KiDS,由于其诊断和质量保证能力。在未来的宇宙剪切研究中…
Euclid preparation: XI. Mean redshift determination from galaxy redshift probabilities for cosmic shear tomography
宽视场成像巡天中的弱引力透镜分析被认为是暗能量的主要宇宙学探索。我们约束暗能量状态方程的能力依赖于对星系平均红移$\langle z \rangle$的精确了解。我们调查的可能性测量$\langle z \rangle$的精度优于$0.002\,(1+z)$,在十个层析箱跨越红移间隔$0.2<z<2.2$,欧几里得的宇宙剪切分析的要求。我们实现了一个足够现实的模拟,了解的优点,互补性,但也有两个标准的方法的缺点:直接校准的$\langle z \rangle$与一个专门的光谱样品和组合的光度红移概率分布函数(zPDF)的个别星系。我们的研究基础上的地平线AGN流体动力学模拟,我们分析了一个标准的星系光谱能量分布模板拟合代码。这样的程序产生光度红移与现实的偏见,精度和故障率。我们发现,欧几里德电流设计直接校准是足够强大的,以达到要求的平均红移,提供的光谱样品的纯度水平保持在一个非常高的水平$>99.8\%$。如果我们使用光谱训练样本对zPDF进行去偏置,则zPDF方法也可以成功。这种方法需要深度成像数据,但对训练样本中的光谱红移故障敏感性较弱。我们改进了去偏置方法,并将其应用于现实世界的弱透镜数据集(COSMOS和KiDS+VIKING-450),证实了我们的发现。