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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 330, Issue 2, Pages 365-377Publisher
BLACKWELL PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05103.x
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gravitational lensing; cosmology : theory; dark matter; large-scale structure of Universe
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The correlation between source galaxies and lensing potentials causes a systematic effect on measurements of cosmic shear statistics, known as the source-lens clustering (SLC) effect. The SLC effect on the skewness of lensing convergence, S-3, is examined using a non-linear semi-analytic approach and is checked against numerical simulations. The semi-analytic calculations have been performed in a wide variety of generic models for the redshift distribution of source galaxies and power-law models for the bias parameter between the galaxy and dark matter distributions. The semi-analytic predictions are tested successfully against numerical simulations. We find the relative amplitude of the SLC effect on S3 to be of the order of 5 - 40 per cent. It depends significantly on the redshift distribution of sources and on the way in which the bias parameter evolves. We discuss possible measurement strategies to minimize the SLC effects.
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