Xi An, May 20, 2014 Measuring the Cosmic Shear in Fourier Space Jun Zhang ( 张骏 ) (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) Collaborators: Eiichiro Komatsu (MPA), Nobuhiko Katayama (IPMU), Wentao Luo (SHAO), Sebastian Foucaud (SJTU) References: JZ, 2008, MNRAS, 383, 113 JZ, 2010, MNRAS, 403, 673 JZ & Komatsu, 2011, MNRAS, 414, 1047 JZ, 2011, JCAP, 11, 041 JZ, Luo, Foucaud, 2013, arXiv:
Outline: Introduction & Motivation A New Idea of Measuring Cosmic Shear Summary
Outline: Introduction & Motivation A New Idea of Measuring Cosmic Shear Summary
Image credit: Wittman et al. (2000) Credit: Clowe et al. (2006) Credit: Hoekstra & Jain (2008)
Is dark energy simply a cosmological constant? What is the geometry / curvature of the Universe? Is General Relativity the correct theory of gravity on cosmic scales? How cold is cold dark matter? What are the density distributions / profiles of cosmic structures (Galaxies, Groups, Clusters, etc.) at different scales? The Scientific Goals of Weak Lensing
Outline: Introduction & Motivation A New Idea of Measuring Cosmic Shear Summary
Challenges LensingPSF NoisePixelation LSSTWFIRSTEUCLID Subaru HSC Opportunities DES &
Credit: Huterer et al. (2005)
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Seljak & Zaldarriaga, 1999
In the presence of an isotropic Gaussian PSF JZ, 2008
In the presence of an isotropic Gaussian PSF JZ, 2011
The Reduced Shear
If one plans to calibrate the multiplicative factor “a+b κ ”, one should pay attention to its dependence on “ κ ”, which, though, is not known a priori in observations.
The Reduced Shear Theorem:, JZ, 2011
The Pixelation Effect Image source: internet
Moffat PSFGaussian PSF FWHM of both PSF = 12 The Pixelation Effect
Moffat PSFGaussian PSF FWHM of both PSF = 12 The Pixelation Effect Equivalent to Whittaker–Shannon (sinc) interpolation
The Photon Noise
The Photon Noise (example)
The Fourier-Space Shear Estimator JZ, 2010
The Source Poisson Noise Example: (Stacked Power Spectrum of Selected SDSS sources)
Removing Source Poisson Noise
Test Result I
Dithering, MultiDrizzle A. M. Koekemoer, A. S. Fruchter, R. Hook, W. Hack, 2002 HST Calibration Workshop, 337
Dithering: non-flat noise PS Source: Koekemoer et al COSMOS Non-flat noise power spectrum
Dithering: non-flat noise PS Ave of PS of sources with Mag >25 COSMOS Non-flat noise power spectrum
Final Form of the Shear Estimator
Test Result II JZ, Luo, Foucaud, 2013
Last, but not the least … How are we limited by the shape noise?
Galaxies PSF
Outline: Introduction & Motivation A New Idea of Measuring Cosmic Shear Summary
Summary We find that it has many advantages to measure the cosmic shear using the image power spectrum in Fourier space … … It corrects for PSF model independently, with simple and rigorous math; Effects due to photon noise is removed statistically, including images processed/combined with Multidrizzle ; Accurate to the second order in shear/convergence ; Pixelation effect is not important as long as the pixel size is less than 1/3 of the FWHM of the PSF (no dithering case); No need to identify the centroid of the image ; Fast image processing : < 10-2 seconds/Galaxy; S / N per galaxy Increased.
Summary The remaining problems are: Measurement of the PSF ; Galaxy weighting ; Measurement of the correlation functions of shear ; Theoretical prediction accuracy ;......
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