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Simultaneously constraining cosmology and baryonic physics via deep learning from weak lensing

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2022-02-09 v2

Abstract

Ongoing and planned weak lensing (WL) surveys are becoming deep enough to contain information on angular scales down to a few arcmin. To fully extract information from these small scales, we must capture non-Gaussian features in the cosmological WL signal while accurately accounting for baryonic effects. In this work, we account for baryonic physics via a baryonic correction model that modifies the matter distribution in dark matter-only NN-body simulations, mimicking the effects of galaxy formation and feedback. We implement this model in a large suite of ray-tracing simulations, spanning a grid of cosmological models in Ωmσ8\Omega_\mathrm{m}-\sigma_8 space. We then develop a convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture to learn and constrain cosmological and baryonic parameters simultaneously from the simulated WL convergence maps. We find that in a Hyper-Suprime Cam (HSC)-like survey, our CNN achieves a 1.7×\times tighter constraint in Ωmσ8\Omega_\mathrm{m}-\sigma_8 space (1σ1\sigma area) than the power spectrum and 2.1×\times tighter than the peak counts, showing that the CNN can efficiently extract non-Gaussian cosmological information even while marginalizing over baryonic effects. When we combine our CNN with the power spectrum, the baryonic effects degrade the constraint in Ωmσ8\Omega_\mathrm{m}-\sigma_8 space by a factor of 2.4, compared to the much worse degradation by a factor of 4.7 or 3.7 from either method alone.

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@article{arxiv.2109.11060,
  title  = {Simultaneously constraining cosmology and baryonic physics via deep learning from weak lensing},
  author = {Tianhuan Lu and Zoltán Haiman and José Manuel Zorrilla Matilla},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.11060},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

12 pages, 6 figures

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