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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 455, Issue 3, Pages 3367-3380Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv2506
Keywords
gravitational lensing: weak; cosmology: observations
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Funding
- U.S. Department of Energy
- U.S. National Science Foundation
- Ministry of Science and Education of Spain
- Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom
- Higher Education Funding Council for England
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago
- Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics at the Ohio State University
- Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy at Texas AM University
- Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos
- Fundacao Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico
- Ministerio da Ciencia, Tecnologia e Inovacao
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- National Science Foundation [AST-1138766]
- MINECO [AYA2012-39559, ESP2013-48274, FPA2013-47986]
- Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa [SEV-2012-0234]
- European Union
- Argonne National Laboratory
- University of California at Santa Cruz
- University of Cambridge
- Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas
- Medioambientales y Tecnologicas-Madrid
- University of Chicago
- University College London
- DESBrazil Consortium
- University of Edinburgh
- Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Institut de Ciencies de l'Espai (IEEC/CSIC)
- Institut de Fisica d'Altes Energies
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat Munchen
- associated Excellence Cluster Universe
- University of Michigan
- National Optical Astronomy Observatory
- University of Nottingham
- Ohio State University
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Portsmouth
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Stanford University
- University of Sussex
- Texas AM University
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [SFB-Transregio 33]
- DFG cluster of excellence 'Origin and Structure of the Universe'
- DOE [DEAC02-98CH10886]
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/L000652/1, ST/L000768/1, ST/H001581/1, ST/L006529/1, ST/M004708/1, ST/I000976/1, ST/M007030/1, ST/K00090X/1, ST/M001334/1, 1093560, ST/M003574/1, ST/N001087/1, ST/K000985/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences [1311924] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Physics [1125897] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- ICREA Funding Source: Custom
- STFC [ST/H001581/1, ST/M003574/1, ST/L000652/1, ST/L000768/1, ST/L006529/1, ST/N001087/1, ST/M001334/1, ST/M005305/1, ST/K000985/1, ST/K00090X/1, ST/M004708/1, ST/M007030/1, ST/I000976/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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We measure the weak lensing shear around galaxy troughs, i.e. the radial alignment of background galaxies relative to underdensities in projections of the foreground galaxy field over a wide range of redshift in Science Verification data from the Dark Energy Survey. Our detection of the shear signal is highly significant (10 sigma-15 sigma for the smallest angular scales) for troughs with the redshift range z is an element of[0.2, 0.5] of the projected galaxy field and angular diameters of 10 arcmin... 1 degrees These measurements probe the connection between the galaxy, matter density, and convergence fields. By assuming galaxies are biased tracers of the matter density with Poissonian noise, we find agreement of our measurements with predictions in a fiducial Lambda cold dark matter model. The prediction for the lensing signal on large trough scales is virtually independent of the details of the underlying model for the connection of galaxies and matter. Our comparison of the shear around troughs with that around cylinders with large galaxy counts is consistent with a symmetry between galaxy and matter over- and underdensities. In addition, we measure the two-point angular correlation of troughs with galaxies which, in contrast to the lensing signal, is sensitive to galaxy bias on all scales. The lensing signal of troughs and their clustering with galaxies is therefore a promising probe of the statistical properties of matter underdensities and their connection to the galaxy field.
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