Stacked Weak Lensing Mass Calibration: Estimators, Systematics, and Impact on Cosmological Parameter Constraints Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Stacked Weak Lensing Mass Calibration: Estimators, Systematics, and Impact on Cosmological Parameter Constraints

Creator

  • Author: Rozo, Eduardo
    Creator Type: Personal
  • Author: Wu, Hao-Yi
    Creator Type: Personal
  • Author: Schmidt, Fabian
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Sponsor: United States. Department of Energy.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

  • Name: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
    Place of Publication: United States
    Additional Info: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC)

Date

  • Creation: 2011-11-04

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: When extracting the weak lensing shear signal, one may employ either locally normalized or globally normalized shear estimators. The former is the standard approach when estimating cluster masses, while the latter is the more common method among peak finding efforts. While both approaches have identical signal-to-noise in the weak lensing limit, it is possible that higher order corrections or systematic considerations make one estimator preferable over the other. In this paper, we consider the efficacy of both estimators within the context of stacked weak lensing mass estimation in the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We find that the two estimators have nearly identical statistical precision, even after including higher order corrections, but that these corrections must be incorporated into the analysis to avoid observationally relevant biases in the recovered masses. We also demonstrate that finite bin-width effects may be significant if not properly accounted for, and that the two estimators exhibit different systematics, particularly with respect to contamination of the source catalog by foreground galaxies. Thus, the two estimators may be employed as a systematic cross-check of each other. Stacked weak lensing in the DES should allow for the mean mass of galaxy clusters to be calibrated to {approx}2% precision (statistical only), which can improve the figure of merit of the DES cluster abundance experiment by a factor of {approx}3 relative to the self-calibration expectation. A companion paper investigates how the two types of estimators considered here impact weak lensing peak finding efforts.
  • Physical Description: 14 p.; ill.

Subject

  • Keyword: Calibration
  • Keyword: Abundance
  • Keyword: Astrophysics,Astro
  • Keyword: Cosmology
  • Keyword: Calculation Methods
  • Keyword: Galaxies
  • Keyword: Gravitational Lenses
  • Keyword: Signals Astrophysics,Astro
  • STI Subject Categories: 72 Physics Of Elementary Particles And Fields
  • Keyword: Shear
  • Keyword: Galaxy Clusters
  • Keyword: Mass
  • Keyword: Accuracy
  • Keyword: Corrections

Source

  • Journal Name: Astrophys.J.735:118,2011; Journal Volume: 735; Journal Issue: 2

Collection

  • Name: Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
    Code: OSTI

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

  • Article

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Report No.: SLAC-PUB-14461
  • Grant Number: AC02-76SF00515
  • DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/735/2/118
  • Office of Scientific & Technical Information Report Number: 1028675
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc831393

Note

  • Display Note: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/pubpage?slac-pub-14461.html
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