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Cosmology with Stacked Cluster Weak Lensing and Cluster-Galaxy Cross-Correlations

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2019-11-06 v1

Abstract

Cluster weak lensing is a sensitive probe of cosmology, particularly the amplitude of matter clustering σ8\sigma_8 and matter density parameter Ωm\Omega_m. The main nuisance parameter in a cluster weak lensing cosmological analysis is the scatter between the true halo mass and the relevant cluster observable, denoted σlnMc\sigma_{\ln Mc}. We show that combining the cluster weak lensing observable ΔΣ\Delta \Sigma with the projected cluster-galaxy cross-correlation function wp,cgw_{p,cg} and galaxy auto-correlation function wp,ggw_{p,gg} can break the degeneracy between σ8\sigma_8 and σlnMc\sigma_{\ln Mc} to achieve tight, percent-level constraints on σ8\sigma_8. Using a grid of cosmological N-body simulations, we compute derivatives of ΔΣ\Delta \Sigma, wp,cgw_{p,cg}, and wp,ggw_{p,gg} with respect to σ8\sigma_8, Ωm\Omega_m, σlnMc\sigma_{\ln Mc} and halo occupation distribution (HOD) parameters describing the galaxy population. We also compute covariance matrices motivated by the properties of the Dark Energy Suvery (DES) cluster and weak lensing survey and the BOSS CMASS galaxy redshift survey. For our fiducial scenario combining ΔΣ\Delta \Sigma, wp,cgw_{p,cg}, and wp,ggw_{p,gg} measured over 0.330.0  h1  Mpc0.3-30.0 \; h^{-1} \; \mathrm{Mpc}, for clusters at z=0.350.55z=0.35-0.55 above a mass threshold Mc2×1014  h1  MM_c\approx 2\times 10^{14} \; h^{-1} \; \mathrm{M_{\odot}}, we forecast a 1.4%1.4\% constraint on σ8\sigma_8 while marginalizing over σlnMc\sigma_{\ln Mc} and all HOD parameters. Reducing the mass threshold to 1×1014  h1  M1\times 10^{14} \; h^{-1} \; \mathrm{M_{\odot}} and adding a z=0.150.35z=0.15-0.35 redshift bin sharpens this constraint to 0.8%0.8\%. The small scale (rp<3.0  h1  Mpc)(r_p < 3.0 \; h^{-1} \; \mathrm{Mpc}) ``mass function'' and large scale (rp>3.0  h1  Mpc)(r_p > 3.0 \; h^{-1} \; \mathrm{Mpc}) ``halo-mass cross-correlation'' regimes of ΔΣ\Delta \Sigma have comparable constraining power, allowing internal consistency tests from such an analysis.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1906.06499,
  title  = {Cosmology with Stacked Cluster Weak Lensing and Cluster-Galaxy Cross-Correlations},
  author = {Andrés N. Salcedo and Benjamin D. Wibking and David H. Weinberg and Hao-Yi Wu and Douglas Ferrer and Daniel Eisenstein and Philip Pinto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.06499},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

23 pages, 11 figures, 1 appendix (with extra figure)

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