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E/B mode decomposition of HSC-Y1 cosmic shear using COSEBIs: cosmological constraints and comparison with other two-point statistics

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2022-10-18 v2

Abstract

We perform a cosmic shear analysis of HSC survey first-year data (HSC-Y1) using Complete Orthogonal Sets of E/B-Integrals (COSEBIs) to derive cosmological constraints. We compute E/B-mode COSEBIs from cosmic shear two-point correlation functions measured on an angular range of 4\arcmin<θ<180\arcmin4\arcmin<\theta<180\arcmin. We perform the standard Bayesian likelihood analysis for cosmological inference from the measured E-mode COSEBIs, including contributions from intrinsic alignments of galaxies as well as systematic effects from point spread function model errors, shear calibration uncertainties, and source redshift distribution errors. We adopt a covariance matrix derived from realistic mock catalogs constructed from full-sky gravitational lensing simulations that fully take account of the survey geometry and measurement noise. For a flat Λ\Lambda cold dark matter model, we find S8σ8Ωm/0.3=0.8090.026+0.036S_8 \equiv \sigma_8\sqrt{\Omega_m/0.3}=0.809_{-0.026}^{+0.036}. We carefully check the robustness of the cosmological results against astrophysical modeling uncertainties and systematic uncertainties in measurements, and find that none of them has a significant impact on the cosmological constraints. We also find that the measured B-mode COSEBIs are consistent with zero. We examine, using mock HSC-Y1 data, the consistency of our S8S_8 constraints with those derived from the other cosmic shear two-point statistics, the power spectrum analysis by Hikage et al (2019) and the two-point correlation function analysis by Hamana et al (2020), which adopt the same HSC-Y1 shape catalog, and find that all the S8S_8 constraints are consistent with each other, although expected correlations between derived S8S_8 constraints are weak.

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@article{arxiv.2201.12698,
  title  = {E/B mode decomposition of HSC-Y1 cosmic shear using COSEBIs: cosmological constraints and comparison with other two-point statistics},
  author = {Takashi Hamana and Chiaki Hikage and Masamune Oguri and Masato Shirasaki and Surhud More},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.12698},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

23 pages, 19 figures, accepted for PASJ. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1906.06041