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Optimal Weak Lensing Skewness Measurements | | Tong-Jie Zhang
; Ue-Li Pen
; Pengjie Zhang
; John Dubinski (Department of Astronomy
; Beijing Normal University
; Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
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30 Apr 2003 | | Journal: | Astrophys.J. 598 (2003) 818-826 | | Subject: | astro-ph | | Affiliation: | 1,2), Ue-Li Pen , Pengjie Zhang , John Dubinski (Department of Astronomy, Beijing Normal University,Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA),NASA/Fermilab Astrophysics Group, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory | | Abstract: | Weak lensing measurements are entering a precision era to statistically map the distribution of matter in the universe. The most common measurement has been of the variance of the projected surface density of matter, which corresponds to the induced correlation in alignments of background galaxies. This measurement of the fluctuations is insensitive to the total mass content, like using waves on the ocean to measure its depths. But when the depth is shallow as happens near a beach, waves become skewed. Similarly, a measurement of skewness in the projected matter distribution directly measures the total matter content of the universe. While skewness has already been convincingly detected, its constraint on cosmology is still weak. We address optimal analyses for the CFHT Legacy Survey in the presence of noise. We show that a compensated Gaussian filter with a width of 2.5 arc minutes optimizes the cosmological constraint, yielding $Delta Omega_m/Omega_msim 10%$. This is significantly better than other filters which have been considered in the literature. This can be further improved with tomography and other sophisticated analyses. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0304559 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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