An estimator for the lensing potential from galaxy number counts

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2022/06/024MaRDI QIDQ5099337zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Viraj Nistane, Mona Jalilvand, J. Carron, Ruth Durrer, Martin Kunz

Publication date 31 August 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04129

zbMATH Keywords

gravitational lensingweak gravitational lensinggalaxy surveysredshift surveys

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Signal detection and filtering (aspects of stochastic processes) (60G35) Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Special classes of entire functions of one complex variable and growth estimates (30D15) Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15)

Abstract: We derive an estimator for the lensing potential from galaxy number counts which contains a linear and a quadratic term. We show that this estimator has a much larger signal-to-noise ratio than the corresponding estimator from intensity mapping. We show that this is due to the additional lensing term in the number count angular power spectrum which is present already at linear order. We estimate the signal-to-noise ratio for future photometric surveys. We find that particularly at high redshifts, $zgtrsim1.5$, the signal to noise ratio can become of order 30. We therefore claim that number counts in photometric surveys are an excellent means to measure tomographic lensing spectra.

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