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来自暗能量巡天科学验证数据的星系偏倚:结合星系密度图与弱透镜图

宇宙学与河外天体物理 2016-06-01 v3

摘要

我们通过结合暗能量巡天(DES)科学验证数据中约 116 deg2^{2} 区域的星系密度图与弱透镜剪切图,测量了一个极限星等星系样本的红移演化星系偏倚。该方法最初由 Amara 等人(2012)提出,后来在配套论文(Pujol 等人 2016)中通过严格的模拟检验和层析测量的解析处理进行了重新审视。在这项工作中,我们将此方法应用于 DES SV 数据,并测量了 i<<22.5 星系样本的星系偏倚。我们发现四个测光红移区间内的星系偏倚及 1σ\sigma 误差条分别为 1.12±\pm0.19(z=0.2-0.4)、0.97±\pm0.15(z=0.4-0.6)、1.38±\pm0.39(z=0.6-0.8)和 1.45±\pm0.56(z=0.8-1.0)。这些测量在 2σ\sigma 水平上与同一数据集上使用星系成团性以及星系与 CMB 透镜的交叉相关得到的测量一致,且大多数红移区间在 1σ\sigma 误差条内一致。此外,我们的方法在三种方法中提供了唯一的与 σ8\sigma_8 无关的约束。我们使用模拟星系目录对主要观测效应进行了前向建模,包括形状噪声、光红移(photo-z)误差和掩蔽效应。我们显示从数据得到的偏倚测量与模拟预期一致。随着即将到来的完整 DES 数据集,我们期望此方法能提供来自更传统方法的星系偏倚测量的额外约束。进而,在我们的测量过程中,我们构建了一个 3D 质量图,允许进一步探索暗物质分布及其与星系演化的关系。

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引用

@article{arxiv.1601.00405,
  title  = {Galaxy bias from the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data: combining galaxy density maps and weak lensing maps},
  author = {C. Chang and A. Pujol and E. Gaztanaga and A. Amara and A. Refregier and D. Bacon and M. R. Becker and C. Bonnett and J. Carretero and F. J. Castander and M. Crocce and P. Fosalba and T. Giannantonio and W. Hartley and M. Jarvis and T. Kacprzak and A. J. Ross and E. Sheldon and M. A. Troxel and V. Vikram and J. Zuntz and T. M. C. Abbott and F. B. Abdalla and S. Allam and J. Annis and A. Benoit-Levy and E. Bertin and D. Brooks and E. Buckley-Geer and D. L. Burke and D. Capozzi and A. Carnero Rosell and M. Carrasco Kind and C. E. Cunha and C. B. D'Andrea and L. N. da Costa and S. Desai and H. T. Diehl and J. P. Dietrich and P. Doel and T. F. Eifler and J. Estrada and A. E. Evrard and B. Flaugher and J. Frieman and D. A. Goldstein and D. Gruen and R. A. Gruendl and G. Gutierrez and K. Honscheid and B. Jain and D. J. James and K. Kuehn and N. Kuropatkin and O. Lahav and T. S. Li and M. Lima and J. L. Marshall and P. Martini and P. Melchior and C. J. Miller and R. Miquel and J. J. Mohr and R. C. Nichol and B. Nord and R. Ogando and A. A. Plazas and K. Reil and A. K. Romer and A. Roodman and E. S. Rykoff and E. Sanchez and V. Scarpine and M. Schubnell and I. Sevilla-Noarbe and R. C. Smith and M. Soares-Santos and F. Sobreira and E. Suchyta and M. E. C. Swanson and G. Tarle and D. Thomas and A. R. Walker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.00405},
  year   = {2016}
}

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14 pages, 9 figures, 2 table; to be published in MNRAS; update title/affiliation to match journal version