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Probing Dark Energy with Lensing Magnification in Photometric Surveys

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-06-18 v1

Abstract

I present an estimator for the angular cross-correlation of two tracers of the cosmological large-scale structure that utilizes redshift information to isolate separate physical contributions. The estimator is derived by solving the Limber equation for a re-weighting of the foreground tracer that nulls either clustering or lensing contributions to the cross-correlation function. Applied to future photometric surveys, the estimator can enhance the measurement of gravitational lensing magnification effects to provide a competitive independent constraint on the dark energy equation of state.

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@article{arxiv.1401.0537,
  title  = {Probing Dark Energy with Lensing Magnification in Photometric Surveys},
  author = {Michael D. Schneider},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.0537},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in PRL