1. The integrated three-point correlation function of cosmic shear.
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Halder, Anik, Friedrich, Oliver, Seitz, Stella, and Varga, Tamas N
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COSMIC background radiation , *PHYSICAL cosmology , *LARGE scale structure (Astronomy) , *FISHER information , *EQUATIONS of state , *FUNCTION spaces , *DARK energy - Abstract
We present the integrated three-point shear correlation function i ζ± – a higher order statistic of the cosmic shear field – which can be directly estimated in wide-area weak lensing surveys without measuring the full three-point shear correlation function, making this a practical and complementary tool to two-point statistics for weak lensing cosmology. We define it as the one-point aperture mass statistic M ap measured at different locations on the shear field correlated with the corresponding local two-point shear correlation function ξ±. Building upon existing work on the integrated bispectrum of the weak lensing convergence field, we present a theoretical framework for computing the integrated three-point function in real space for any projected field within the flat-sky approximation and apply it to cosmic shear. Using analytical formulae for the non-linear matter power spectrum and bispectrum, we model i ζ± and validate it on N -body simulations within the uncertainties expected from the sixth year cosmic shear data of the Dark Energy Survey. We also explore the Fisher information content of i ζ± and perform a joint analysis with ξ± for two tomographic source redshift bins with realistic shape noise to analyse its power in constraining cosmological parameters. We find that the joint analysis of ξ± and i ζ± has the potential to considerably improve parameter constraints from ξ± alone, and can be particularly useful in improving the figure of merit of the dynamical dark energy equation of state parameters from cosmic shear data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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