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ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
卷 413, 期 2, 页码 465-476出版社
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20034172
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cosmology : observations; gravitational lensing; cosmology : large-scale structure of Universe
We present simulations of a cosmic shear survey and show how the survey geometry influences the accuracy of determination of cosmological parameters. We numerically calculate the full covariance matrices Cov of two-point statistics of cosmic shear, based on the expressions derived in the first paper of this series. The individual terms are compared for two survey geometries with large and small cosmic variance. We use analyses based on maximum likelihood of Cov and the Fisher information matrix in order to derive expected constraints on cosmological parameters. As an illustrative example, we simulate various survey geometries consisting of 300 individual fields of 13' x 13' size, placed (semi-) randomly into patches which are assumed to be widely separated on the sky and therefore uncorrelated. Using the aperture mass statistics [M-ap(2)], the optimum survey consists of 10 patches with 30 images in each patch. If Omega(m), sigma(8) and Gamma are supposed to be extracted from the data, the minimum variance bounds on these three parameters are 0.17, 0.25 and 0.04 respectively. These variances increase slightly when the initial power spectrum index n(s) is also to be determined from the data. The cosmological constant is only poorly constrained.
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