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Results and forecasts on cosmic inflation from weak lensing

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2024-09-04 v1

Abstract

We highlight the role of weak lensing measurements from current and upcoming stage-IV imaging surveys in the search for cosmic inflation, specifically in measuring the scalar spectral index nsn_s. To do so, we combine the Dark Energy Survey 3 years of observation weak lensing and clustering data with BICEP/Keck, Planck and Sloan Digital Sky Survey data in rΛr\LambdaCDM where rr is the tensor-to-scalar ratio. While there is no significant improvement in constraining power, we obtain a 1σ\sigma shift on nsn_s. Additionally, we forecast a weak lensing and clustering data vector from the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and show its combination with current data would improve their nsn_s constraints by 25%\% in rΛr\LambdaCDM.

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@article{arxiv.2310.10731,
  title  = {Results and forecasts on cosmic inflation from weak lensing},
  author = {Agnès Ferté and Kevin Hong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.10731},
  year   = {2024}
}

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