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Hyper Suprime-Cam Year 3 Results: Cosmology from Cosmic Shear Power Spectra

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2024-06-07 v2

Abstract

We measure weak lensing cosmic shear power spectra from the three-year galaxy shear catalog of the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) Subaru Strategic Program imaging survey. The shear catalog covers 416 deg2416 \ \mathrm{deg}^2 of the northern sky, with a mean ii-band seeing of 0.59 arcsec and an effective galaxy number density of 15 arcmin2\mathrm{arcmin}^{-2} within our adopted redshift range. With an ii-band magnitude limit of 24.5 mag, and four tomographic redshift bins spanning 0.3zph1.50.3 \leq z_{\mathrm{ph}} \leq 1.5 based on photometric redshifts, we obtain a high-significance measurement of the cosmic shear power spectra, with a signal-to-noise ratio of approximately 26.4 in the multipole range 300<<1800300<\ell<1800. The accuracy of our power spectrum measurement is tested against realistic mock shear catalogs, and we use these catalogs to get a reliable measurement of the covariance of the power spectrum measurements. We use a robust blinding procedure to avoid confirmation bias, and model various uncertainties and sources of bias in our analysis, including point spread function systematics, redshift distribution uncertainties, the intrinsic alignment of galaxies and the modeling of the matter power spectrum. For a flat Λ\LambdaCDM model, we find S8σ8(Ωm/0.3)0.5=0.7760.033+0.032S_8 \equiv \sigma_8 (\Omega_m/0.3)^{0.5} =0.776^{+0.032}_{-0.033}, which is in excellent agreement with the constraints from the other HSC Year 3 cosmology analyses, as well as those from a number of other cosmic shear experiments. This result implies a \sim2σ2\sigma-level tension with the Planck 2018 cosmology. We study the effect that various systematic errors and modeling choices could have on this value, and find that they can shift the best-fit value of S8S_8 by no more than \sim0.5σ0.5\sigma, indicating that our result is robust to such systematics.

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@article{arxiv.2304.00701,
  title  = {Hyper Suprime-Cam Year 3 Results: Cosmology from Cosmic Shear Power Spectra},
  author = {Roohi Dalal and Xiangchong Li and Andrina Nicola and Joe Zuntz and Michael A. Strauss and Sunao Sugiyama and Tianqing Zhang and Markus M. Rau and Rachel Mandelbaum and Masahiro Takada and Surhud More and Hironao Miyatake and Arun Kannawadi and Masato Shirasaki and Takanori Taniguchi and Ryuichi Takahashi and Ken Osato and Takashi Hamana and Masamune Oguri and Atsushi J. Nishizawa and Andrés A. Plazas Malagón and Tomomi Sunayama and David Alonso and Anže Slosar and Robert Armstrong and James Bosch and Yutaka Komiyama and Robert H. Lupton and Nate B. Lust and Lauren A. MacArthur and Satoshi Miyazaki and Hitoshi Murayama and Takahiro Nishimichi and Yuki Okura and Paul A. Price and Philip J. Tait and Masayuki Tanaka and Shiang-Yu Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.00701},
  year   = {2024}
}

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35 pages, 18 figures, 6 tables, for coordinated submission to PRD with other HSC Y3 weak lensing cosmology papers - see https://hsc-release.mtk.nao.ac.jp/doc/index.php/wly3/