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Cosmic magnification on multi-catalogue Herschel submillimetre galaxies

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2025-10-28 v1

Abstract

{Submillimetre galaxies (SMGs) are excellent background sources for magnification-bias studies, but the limited sky coverage in the submillimetre (sub-mm) band constrains their statistical power. Beyond H-ATLAS, Herschel produced additional sub-mm catalogues, though not optimised for spatial statistical lensing analyses.} {Our goal is to refine cosmological constraints from SMG magnification bias by exploiting the full sub-mm sky surveyed by Herschel.} {We expanded the SMG sample by incorporating other Herschel catalogues overlapping SDSS spectroscopic lenses. Random catalogues were generated via kernel density estimation to compute cross-correlations, and Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods were applied to infer astrophysical and cosmological parameters for each catalogue and for the combined dataset.} {We report the first detection of magnification bias in SMGs beyond H-ATLAS, reinforcing the robustness of this observable. Individual Herschel catalogues yield reasonable central values for Ωm\Omega_m and σ8\sigma_8, although with large uncertainties. The combined analysis, dominated by the more powerful H-ATLAS sample, gives results consistent with Λ\LambdaCDM: Ωm=0.300.07+0.05\Omega_m = 0.30^{+0.05}_{-0.07}, σ8=0.80(+/0.07)\sigma_8 = 0.80 (+/- 0.07), and h<0.80h < 0.80, in better agreement with \textit{Planck} 2018 than previous non-tomographic studies.} {SMGs are promising tracers for magnification bias, but the narrow sub-mm coverage remains a major limitation. Wider surveys optimised for lensing would enable cross-correlations on larger scales, yielding tighter cosmological constraints.}

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@article{arxiv.2510.23582,
  title  = {Cosmic magnification on multi-catalogue Herschel submillimetre galaxies},
  author = {R. Fernandez-Fernandez and M. M. Cueli and J. González-Nuevo and L. Bonavera and D. Crespo and E. Goitia and J. M. Casas and J. A. Cano and M. Migliaccio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.23582},
  year   = {2025}
}