Completeness in Weak Lensing Searches for Clusters
摘要
Using mock observations of numerical simulations, we investigate the completeness and efficiency of searches for galaxy clusters in weak lensing surveys. While it is possible to search for high mass objects directly as density enhancements using weak lensing, we find that line-of-sight projection effects can be quite serious. For the search methods that we consider, to obtain high completeness requires acceptance of a very high false-positive rate. The false positive rate can be reduced only by significantly degrading the completeness. Both completeness and efficiency are dependent upon the filter used in the search and the desired mass threshold, emphasizing that a measurement of the 3D mass function from gravitational lensing is affected by a number of biases which mix `cosmological' and observational issues.
引用
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0111490,
title = {Completeness in Weak Lensing Searches for Clusters},
author = {Martin White and Ludovic van Waerbeke and Jonathan Mackey},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0111490},
year = {2009}
}
备注
11 pages, 11 figures; Changed to match version accepted by ApJ. Simulation results updated. Conclusions unchanged