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Modeling Redshift Uncertainties in Roman Weak Lensing Cosmology

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2026-02-11 v1

Abstract

Cosmological constraints using weak gravitational lensing measurements from the Roman Space Telescope will require a powerful method for modelling uncertainties in the galaxy redshift distribution. In this work, we use an optimized version of the principal component analysis (PCA) to model uncertainties in the full shape of the redshift distributions, a method proposed by \cite{pca_method} and recently used in the Dark Energy Survey Y6 analysis. Here, we implement this new approach within the Roman High Latitude Imaging Survey (HLIS) Cosmology Project Infrastructure Team (PIT) pipeline, namely Cobaya-Cosmolike Joint Architecture (\texttt{CoCoA}). To validate the PCA in mitigating biases on cosmological parameters, S8S_8 and Ωm\Omega_m, we use a set of redshift distributions from \texttt{Cardinal} generated for a variety of Roman configurations. Overall, when the simulated cosmic shear data vector is not strongly miscalibrated relative to the fiducial one, both the mean-shift and the PCA-based approaches produce consistent cosmological constraints when marginalizing over nuisance parameters. For mild to strong miscalibration, including additional PCs progressively mitigates biases in S8S_8 and Ωm\Omega_m, and can achieve comparable performance with fewer parameters than the nine tomographic-bin mean-shift model.

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@article{arxiv.2602.09230,
  title  = {Modeling Redshift Uncertainties in Roman Weak Lensing Cosmology},
  author = {Diogo H. F. de Souza and Boyan Yin and Tim Eifler and Vivian Miranda and Chun-Hao To and Brett H. Andrews and Katarina Markovič and Eric Huff and Michael A. Troxel and Olivier Doré},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.09230},
  year   = {2026}
}

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30 pages, 13 figures

R2 v1 2026-07-01T10:28:51.978Z