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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 Astrophysics 2025-07-28 v2

Abstract

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 2h1h^{-1}Mpc, extending up to 70h1h^{-1}Mpc. These strategies enhance the signal-to-noise ratio of the galaxy-galaxy lensing data vector. Using a flat Λ\LambdaCDM model, we find S8=0.7800.030+0.029S_8 = 0.780^{+0.029}_{-0.030}, and using a wwCDM model, we obtain S8=0.7560.036+0.038S_8 = 0.756^{+0.038}_{-0.036} with w=1.1760.346+0.310w = -1.176^{+0.310}_{-0.346}. 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=0.1120.049+0.046\Delta z_3 = -0.112^{+0.046}_{-0.049} and Δz4=0.1850.081+0.071\Delta z_4 = -0.185^{+0.071}_{-0.081}, 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.

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@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}
}

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28 pages, 14 figures. Comments welcomed!