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Self calibration of photometric redshift scatter in weak lensing surveys
Photo-z errors, especially catastrophic errors, are a major uncertainty for
precision weak lensing cosmology. We find that the shear-(galaxy number)
density and density-density cross correlation measurements between photo-z
bins, available from the same lensing surveys, contain valuable information for
self-calibration of the scattering probabilities between the true-z and photo-z
bins. The self-calibration technique we propose does not rely on cosmological
priors nor parameterization of the photo-z probability distribution function,
and preserves all of the cosmological information available from shear-shear
measurement. We estimate the calibration accuracy through the Fisher matrix
formalism. We find that, for advanced lensing surveys such as the planned stage
IV surveys, the rate of photo-z outliers can be determined with statistical
uncertainties of 0.01-1% for galaxies. Among the several sources of
calibration error that we identify and investigate, the {\it galaxy
distribution bias} is likely the most dominant systematic error, whereby
photo-z outliers have different redshift distributions and/or bias than
non-outliers from the same bin. This bias affects all photo-z calibration
techniques based on correlation measurements. Galaxy bias variations of
produce biases in photo-z outlier rates similar to the statistical
errors of our method, so this galaxy distribution bias may bias the
reconstructed scatters at several- level, but is unlikely to completely
invalidate the self-calibration technique.Comment: v2: 19 pages, 10 figures. Added one figure. Expanded discussions.
Accepted to MNRA
The Dark Energy Survey
We describe the Dark Energy Survey (DES), a proposed optical-near infrared
survey of 5000 sq. deg of the South Galactic Cap to ~24th magnitude in SDSS
griz, that would use a new 3 sq. deg CCD camera to be mounted on the Blanco 4-m
telescope at Cerro Telolo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO). The survey data
will allow us to measure the dark energy and dark matter densities and the dark
energy equation of state through four independent methods: galaxy clusters,
weak gravitational lensing tomography, galaxy angular clustering, and supernova
distances. These methods are doubly complementary: they constrain different
combinations of cosmological model parameters and are subject to different
systematic errors. By deriving the four sets of measurements from the same data
set with a common analysis framework, we will obtain important cross checks of
the systematic errors and thereby make a substantial and robust advance in the
precision of dark energy measurements.Comment: White Paper submitted to the Dark Energy Task Force, 42 page
Novel Method to Improve the Signal to Noise Ratio in the Far-field Results Obtained from Planar Near Field Measurements.
A method to reduce the noise power in far-field pattern without modifying the desired signal is proposed. Therefore, an important signal-to-noise ratio improvement may be achieved. The method is used when the antenna measurement is performed in planar nearfield, where the recorded data are assumed to be corrupted with white Gaussian and space-stationary noise, because of the receiver additive noise. Back-propagating the measured field from the scan plane to the antenna under test (AUT) plane, the noise remains white Gaussian and space-stationary, whereas the desired field is theoretically concentrated in the aperture antenna. Thanks to this fact, a spatial filtering may be applied, cancelling the field which is located out of the AUT dimensions and which is only composed by noise. Next, a planar field to far-field transformation is carried out, achieving a great improvement compared to the pattern obtained directly from the measurement. To verify the effectiveness of the method, two examples will be presented using both simulated and measured near-field data
Self calibration of gravitational shear-galaxy intrinsic ellipticity correlation in weak lensing surveys
The galaxy intrinsic alignment is a severe challenge to precision cosmic
shear measurement. We propose to self-calibrate the induced gravitational
shear-galaxy intrinsic ellipticity correlation (the GI correlation,
\citealt{Hirata04b}) in weak lensing surveys with photometric redshift
measurement. (1) We propose a method to extract the intrinsic
ellipticity-galaxy density cross correlation (I-g) from the galaxy
ellipticity-density measurement in the same redshift bin. (2) We also find a
generic scaling relation to convert the extracted I-g correlation to the
demanded GI correlation. We perform concept study under simplified conditions
and demonstrate its capability to significantly reduce the GI contamination. We
discuss the impact of various complexities on the two key ingredients of the
self-calibration technique, namely the method to extract the I-g correlation
and the scaling relation between the I-g and the GI correlation. We expect none
of them is likely able to completely invalidate the proposed self-calibration
technique.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figures. Heavily expanded version. No changes in major
results and conclusions. Accepted to Ap
Modeling CMB Lensing Cross Correlations with {\sc CLEFT}
A new generation of surveys will soon map large fractions of sky to ever
greater depths and their science goals can be enhanced by exploiting cross
correlations between them. In this paper we study cross correlations between
the lensing of the CMB and biased tracers of large-scale structure at high .
We motivate the need for more sophisticated bias models for modeling
increasingly biased tracers at these redshifts and propose the use of
perturbation theories, specifically Convolution Lagrangian Effective Field
Theory ({\sc CLEFT}). Since such signals reside at large scales and redshifts,
they can be well described by perturbative approaches. We compare our model
with the current approach of using scale independent bias coupled with fitting
functions for non-linear matter power spectra, showing that the latter will not
be sufficient for upcoming surveys. We illustrate our ideas by estimating
from the auto- and cross-spectra of mock surveys, finding that {\sc
CLEFT} returns accurate and unbiased results at high . We discuss
uncertainties due to the redshift distribution of the tracers, and several
avenues for future development.Comment: 31 pages, 8 figure
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