Ray-tracing log-normal simulation for weak gravitational lensing: application to the cross-correlation with galaxies

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2021/03/095MaRDI QIDQ5026064zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ryu Makiya, Issha Kayo, Eiichiro Komatsu

Publication date 7 February 2022

Published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.13195

zbMATH Keywords

cosmological simulationsgalaxy clusteringredshift surveysweak gravitational lensing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Mathematical modeling or simulation for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-10) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15)

Abstract: We present an algorithm to self-consistently generate mock weak gravitational lensing convergence fields and galaxy distributions in redshift space. We generate three-dimensional cosmic density fields that follow a log-normal distribution, and ray-trace them to produce convergence maps. As we generate the galaxy distribution from the same density fields in a manner consistent with ray-tracing, the galaxy-convergence cross-power spectrum measured from the mock agrees with the theoretical expectation with high precision. We use this simulation to forecast the quality of galaxy-shear cross-correlation measurements from the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) and Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) surveys. We find that the nominal HSC and PFS surveys would detect the cross power spectra with signal-to-noise ratios of 20 and 5 at the lowest ($z=0.7$) and highest ($z=2.2$) redshift bins, respectively.

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• CLASS
• nbodykit
• FFTW

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