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Cosmology from cosmic shear power spectra with Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam first-year data

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2019-03-13 v2

Abstract

We measure cosmic weak lensing shear power spectra with the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) survey first-year shear catalog covering 137deg2^2 of the sky. Thanks to the high effective galaxy number density of \sim17 arcmin2^{-2} even after conservative cuts such as magnitude cut of i<24.5i<24.5 and photometric redshift cut of 0.3z1.50.3\leq z \leq 1.5, we obtain a high significance measurement of the cosmic shear power spectra in 4 tomographic redshift bins, achieving a total signal-to-noise ratio of 16 in the multipole range 3001900300 \leq \ell \leq 1900. We carefully account for various uncertainties in our analysis including the intrinsic alignment of galaxies, scatters and biases in photometric redshifts, residual uncertainties in the shear measurement, and modeling of the matter power spectrum. The accuracy of our power spectrum measurement method as well as our analytic model of the covariance matrix are tested against realistic mock shear catalogs. For a flat Λ\Lambda cold dark matter (Λ\LambdaCDM) model, we find S8σ8(Ωm/0.3)α=0.8000.028+0.029S_8\equiv \sigma_8(\Omega_{\rm m}/0.3)^\alpha=0.800^{+0.029}_{-0.028} for α=0.45\alpha=0.45 (S8=0.7800.033+0.030S_8=0.780^{+0.030}_{-0.033} for α=0.5\alpha=0.5) from our HSC tomographic cosmic shear analysis alone. In comparison with Planck cosmic microwave background constraints, our results prefer slightly lower values of S8S_8, although metrics such as the Bayesian evidence ratio test do not show significant evidence for discordance between these results. We study the effect of possible additional systematic errors that are unaccounted in our fiducial cosmic shear analysis, and find that they can shift the best-fit values of S8S_8 by up to 0.6σ\sim 0.6\sigma in both directions. The full HSC survey data will contain several times more area, and will lead to significantly improved cosmological constraints.

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@article{arxiv.1809.09148,
  title  = {Cosmology from cosmic shear power spectra with Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam first-year data},
  author = {Chiaki Hikage and Masamune Oguri and Takashi Hamana and Surhud More and Rachel Mandelbaum and Masahiro Takada and Fabian Köhlinger and Hironao Miyatake and Atsushi J. Nishizawa and Hiroaki Aihara and Robert Armstrong and James Bosch and Jean Coupon and Anne Ducout and Paul Ho and Bau-Ching Hsieh and Yutaka Komiyama and François Lanusse and Alexie Leauthaud and Robert H. Lupton and Elinor Medezinski and Sogo Mineo and Shoken Miyama and Satoshi Miyazaki and Ryoma Murata and Hitoshi Murayama and Masato Shirasaki and Cristóbal Sifón and Melanie Simet and Joshua Speagle and David N. Spergel and Michael A. Strauss and Naoshi Sugiyama and Masayuki Tanaka and Yousuke Utsumi and Shiang-Yu Wang and Yoshihiko Yamada},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.09148},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

43 pages, 21 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ