Gravity and Non-gravity Modes in the VIRMOS-DESCART Weak Lensing Survey
Astrophysics
2009-11-07 v2
Abstract
We analyze the weak lensing data of the VIRMOS imaging survey using projections (called E and B-modes) of the two independents observed correlation functions. The E-mode contains all the lensing signal, while noise and systematics contribute equally to the E and B modes provided that intrinsic alignment is negligible. The mode separation allows a measurement of the signal with a \sqrt{2} smaller error bars, and a separate channel to test for systematic errors. We apply various transformations, including a spherical harmonic space power spectrum C^E_l and C^B_l, which provides a direct measurement of the projected dark matter distribution for 500<l<10^4.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0109182,
title = {Gravity and Non-gravity Modes in the VIRMOS-DESCART Weak Lensing Survey},
author = {Ue-Li Pen and Ludovic van Waerbeke and Yannick Mellier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0109182},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
accepted version, minor changes, 18 pages including 6 figures