Cosmology and Source Redshift Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and Tomographic Weak Lensing with HSC Y3 and SDSS using the Point-Mass Correction Model
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics2025-07-28v2
The combination of galaxy clustering and weak lensing is a powerful probe of the cosmology model. We present a joint analysis of galaxy clustering and weak lensing cosmology using SDSS data as the tracer of dark matter (lens sample) and the HSC Y3 dataset as source galaxies. The analysis divides HSC Y3 galaxies into four tomographic bins for both galaxy-galaxy lensing and cosmic shear measurements, and employs a point-mass correction model to utilize galaxy-galaxy lensing signals down to 2h−1Mpc, extending up to 70h−1Mpc. These strategies enhance the signal-to-noise ratio of the galaxy-galaxy lensing data vector. Using a flat ΛCDM model, we find S8=0.780−0.030+0.029, and using a wCDM model, we obtain S8=0.756−0.036+0.038 with w=−1.176−0.346+0.310. We apply uninformative priors on the redshift mean-shift parameters for the third and fourth tomographic bins. Leveraging the self-calibration power of tomographic weak lensing, we measure Δz3=−0.112−0.049+0.046 and Δz4=−0.185−0.081+0.071, in agreement with previous HSC Y3 results. This demonstrates that weak lensing self-calibration can achieve redshift constraints comparable to other methods such as photometric and clustering redshift calibration.
@article{arxiv.2507.01386,
title = {Cosmology and Source Redshift Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and Tomographic Weak Lensing with HSC Y3 and SDSS using the Point-Mass Correction Model},
author = {Tianqing Zhang and Xiangchong Li and Sunao Sugiyama and Rachel Mandelbaum and Surhud More and Roohi Dalal and Arun Kannawadi and Hironao Miyatake and Atsushi J. Nishizawa and Takahiro Nishimichi and Masamune Oguri and Ken Osato and Markus M. Rau and Masato Shirasaki and Tomomi Sunayama and Masahiro Takada},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.01386},
year = {2025}
}