期刊
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 501, 期 2, 页码 2983-3002出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa3802
关键词
gravitational lensing: weak; galaxies: haloes; galaxies: statistics; cosmology: theory
资金
- Vici grant - Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) [639.043.512]
- EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme [776247]
- Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (MICINN) [200850I176, AYA2009-13936, AYA2012-39620, AYA2013-44327, ESP2013-48274, ESP2014-58384, CSD2007-00060]
- Generalitat de Catalunya [2009SGR-1398]
- Ramon y Cajal MICINN program
- La Silla Paranal Observatory [177.A-3016, 177.A-3017, 177.A-3018]
- Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Padova
- Department of Physics of Univ. Federico II (Naples)
- NOVA grant
- NWO-M grant
- STFC (UK)
- ARC (Australia)
- AAO
- [AECT-2006-2-0011]
- [AECT-2006-2-0012]
- [AECT-2015-1-0013]
This study investigates the impact of different galaxy samples on cosmic shear studies using the halo model formalism, accounting for varied IA features and redshift dependencies. The model includes luminosity and signal radial dependencies, and uses realistic mocks to validate predictions. Results indicate that uncertainties in predicting IA signal largely stem from fainter galaxies.
Intrinsic alignments (IAs) of galaxies are an important contaminant for cosmic shear studies, but the modelling is complicated by the dependence of the signal on the source galaxy sample. In this paper, we use the halo model formalism to capture this diversity and examine its implications for Stage-III and Stage-IV cosmic shear surveys. We account for the different IA signatures at large and small scales, as well as for the different contributions from central/satellite and red/blue galaxies, and we use realistic mocks to account for the characteristics of the galaxy populations as a function of redshift. We inform our model using the most recent observational findings: we include a luminosity dependence at both large and small scales and a radial dependence of the signal within the halo. We predict the impact of the total IA signal on the lensing angular power spectra, including the current uncertainties from the IA best-fits to illustrate the range of possible impact on the lensing signal: the lack of constraints for fainter galaxies is the main source of uncertainty for our predictions of the IA signal. We investigate how well effective models with limited degrees of freedom can account for the complexity of the IA signal. Although these lead to negligible biases for Stage-III surveys, we find that, for Stage-IV surveys, it is essential to at least include an additional parameter to capture the redshift dependence.
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