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Galaxy blending effects in deep imaging cosmic shear probes of cosmology
Authors
The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration
Erfan Nourbakhsh
Samuel J. Schmidt
J. Anthony Tyson
Publication date
14 December 2021
Publisher
'Oxford University Press (OUP)'
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Abstract
Upcoming deep imaging surveys such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time will be confronted with challenges that come with increased depth. One of the leading systematic errors in deep surveys is the blending of objects due to higher surface density in the more crowded images; a considerable fraction of the galaxies which we hope to use for cosmology analyses will overlap each other on the observed sky. In order to investigate these challenges, we emulate blending in a mock catalogue consisting of galaxies at a depth equivalent to 1.3 years of the full 10-year Rubin Observatory that includes effects due to weak lensing, ground-based seeing, and the uncertainties due to extraction of catalogues from imaging data. The emulated catalogue indicates that approximately 12% of the observed galaxies are "unrecognized" blends that contain two or more objects but are detected as one. Using the positions and shears of half a billion distant galaxies, we compute shear-shear correlation functions after selecting tomographic samples in terms of both spectroscopic and photometric redshift bins. We examine the sensitivity of the cosmological parameter estimation to unrecognized blending employing both jackknife and analytical Gaussian covariance estimators. A
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.Comment: 22 pages, 23 figures. This paper has undergone internal review in the LSST DESC. Submitted to MNRA
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