Analysis of two-point statistics of cosmic shear

DOI10.1051/0004-6361:20021341zbMATH Open1032.83055arXivastro-ph/0206182OpenAlexW4290036120WikidataQ56659475 ScholiaQ56659475MaRDI QIDQ4707249FDOQ4707249

Authors: P. Schneider, Ludovic Van Waerbeke, Martin Kilbinger, Yannick Mellier 

Publication date: 26 October 2003

Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We derive in this paper expressions for the covariance matrix of the cosmic shear two-point correlation functions which are readily applied to any survey geometry. Furthermore, we consider the more special case of a simple survey geometry which allows us to obtain approximations for the covariance matrix in terms of integrals which are readily evaluated numerically. These results are then used to study the covariance of the aperture mass dispersion which has been employed earlier in quantitative cosmic shear analyses. We show that the aperture mass dispersion, measured at two different angular scales, quickly decorrelates with the ratio of the scales. Inverting the relation between the shear two-point correlation functions and the power spectrum of the underlying projected matter distribution, we construct estimators for the power spectrum and for the band powers, and show that they yields accurate approximations; in particular, the correlation between band powers at different wave numbers is quite weak. The covariance matrix of the shear correlation function is then used to investigate the expected accuracy of cosmological parameter estimates from cosmic shear surveys. Depending on the use of prior information, e.g. from CMB measurements, cosmic shear can yield very accurate determinations of several cosmological parameters, in particular the normalization $sigm{a}_8$ of the power spectrum of the matter distribution, the matter density parameter $Omeg{a}_{mm}$, and the shape parameter $Gamma$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0206182

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zbMATH Keywords

dark matterlarge scale structure of the universelensingstatistical astronomycosmic shearstatistical approach to cosmology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

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