Cosmological lensing ratios with DES Y1, SPT, and Planck

Prat, J and Baxter, E J and Desai, Shantanu and et al, . (2019) Cosmological lensing ratios with DES Y1, SPT, and Planck. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 487 (1). pp. 1363-1379. ISSN 0035-8711

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Abstract

Correlations between tracers of the matter density field and gravitational lensing are sensitive to the evolution of the matter power spectrum and the expansion rate across cosmic time. Appropriately defined ratios of such correlation functions, on the other hand, depend only on the angular diameter distances to the tracer objects and to the gravitational lensing source planes. Because of their simple cosmological dependence, such ratios can exploit available signal-to-noise ratio down to small angular scales, even where directly modelling the correlation functions is difficult. We present a measurement of lensing ratios using galaxy position and lensing data from the Dark Energy Survey, and CMB lensing data from the South Pole Telescope and Planck, obtaining the highest precision lensing ratio measurements to date. Relative to the concordance CDM model, we find a best-fitting lensing ratio amplitude of A = 1.1 ± 0.1. We use the ratio measurements to generate cosmological constraints, focusing on the curvature parameter. We demonstrate that photometrically selected galaxies can be used to measure lensing ratios, and argue that future lensing ratio measurements with data from a combination of LSST and Stage-4 CMB experiments can be used to place interesting cosmological constraints, even after considering the systematic uncertainties associated with photometric redshift and galaxy shear estimation.

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Desai, Shantanuhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-0466-3288
Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Cosmological parameters, Cosmology: Observations - large-scale structure of Universe, Gravitational lensing: weak
Subjects: Physics
Divisions: Department of Physics
Depositing User: Team Library
Date Deposited: 05 Sep 2019 09:22
Last Modified: 05 Sep 2019 09:23
URI: http://raiithold.iith.ac.in/id/eprint/6125
Publisher URL: http://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1309
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