Forecast of neutrino cosmology from the CSST photometric galaxy clustering and cosmic shear surveys

China Space Station Telescope (CSST) is a forthcoming powerful Stage IV space-based optical survey equipment. It is expected to explore a number of important cosmological problems in extremely high precision. In this work, we focus on investigating the constraints on neutrino mass and other cosmological parameters under the model of cold dark matter with a constant equation of state of dark energy (wCDM), using the mock data from the CSST photometric galaxy clustering and cosmic shear surveys (i.e. 3 x 2 pt). The systematics from galaxy bias, photometric redshift uncertainties, intrinsic alignment, shear calibration, baryonic feedback, non-linear, and instrumental effects are also included in the analysis. We generate the mock data based on the COSMOS catalogue considering the instrumental and observational effects of the CSST, and make use of the Markov chain Monte Carlo method to perform the constraints. Comparing to the results from current similar measurements, we find that CSST 3 x 2 pt surveys can improve the constraints on the cosmological parameters by one order of magnitude at least. We can obtain an upper limit for the sum of neutrino mass sigma m(nu) less than or similar to 0.36 (0.56) eV at 68 per cent (95 per cent) confidence level (CL), and sigma m(nu) less than or similar to 0.23 (0.29) eV at 68 per cent (95 per cent) CL if we ignore the baryonic effect, which is comparable to the Planck results and much better than the current photometric surveys. This indicates that the CSST photometric surveys can provide stringent constraints on the neutrino mass and other cosmological parameters, and the results also can be further improved by including data from other kinds of CSST cosmological surveys.

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This study uses mock data from the China Space Station Telescope (CSST) to investigate the constraints on cosmological parameters, finding that CSST surveys can improve constraints by at least an order of magnitude. The results provide stringent constraints on neutrino mass and other cosmological parameters.