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ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
卷 408, 期 3, 页码 829-834出版社
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20031035
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dark matter; methods : statistical; cosmology : miscellaneous; cosmic microwave background
We consider the parity transformation and the consequences of parity invariance on the n-point correlation function of the cosmic shear caused by gravitational lensing by the large-scale structure, or any other polar ( or spin-2) field. The decomposition of the shear field into E- and B-modes then yields the result that any correlation function which contains an odd number of B-mode shear components vanishes for parity-invariant random shear fields. In particular, this result implies that the expectation value of the third-order cross aperture statistics, [M-x(3)], vanishes for parity-invariant shear fields. Therefore, a significant detection of a non-zero value of [M-x(3)] in a cosmic shear survey does not indicate the presence of B-modes, but of an underestimate of the statistical uncertainty or cosmic variance, or a remaining systematic effect in the shear measurement. We argue that the parity invariance provides a very specific diagnostic of systematic effects in shear data. Our results apply as well to the linear polarization of the cosmic microwave background.
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