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 ns. 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 rΛCDM where r is the tensor-to-scalar ratio. While there is no significant improvement in constraining power, we obtain a 1σ shift on ns. 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 ns constraints by 25% in rΛCDM.
@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}
}