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Cosmology with the Roman Space Telescope: synergies with the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time.

Authors :
Eifler, Tim
Simet, Melanie
Krause, Elisabeth
Hirata, Christopher
Huang, Hung-Jin
Fang, Xiao
Miranda, Vivian
Mandelbaum, Rachel
Doux, Cyrille
Heinrich, Chen
Huff, Eric
Miyatake, Hironao
Hemmati, Shoubaneh
Xu, Jiachuan
Rogozenski, Paul
Capak, Peter
Choi, Ami
Doré, Olivier
Jain, Bhuvnesh
Jarvis, Mike
Source :
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Oct2021, Vol. 507 Issue 1, p1514-1527. 14p.
Publication Year :
2021

Abstract

We explore synergies between the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and the Vera Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). Specifically, we consider scenarios where the currently envisioned survey strategy for the Roman Space Telescope 's High Latitude Survey (HLS reference), i.e. 2000 deg2 in four narrow photometric bands is altered in favour of a strategy of rapid coverage of the LSST area (to full LSST depth) in one band. We find that in only five months, a survey in the W -band can cover the full LSST survey area providing high-resolution imaging for >95 per cent of the LSST Year 10 gold galaxy sample. We explore a second, more ambitious scenario where the Roman Space Telescope spends 1.5 yr covering the LSST area. For this second scenario, we quantify the constraining power on dark energy equation-of-state parameters from a joint weak lensing and galaxy clustering analysis. Our survey simulations are based on the Roman Space Telescope exposure-time calculator and redshift distributions from the CANDELS catalogue. Our statistical uncertainties account for higher order correlations of the density field, and we include a wide range of systematic effects, such as uncertainties in shape and redshift measurements, and modelling uncertainties of astrophysical systematics, such as galaxy bias, intrinsic galaxy alignment, and baryonic physics. We find a significant increase in constraining power for the joint LSST + HLS wide survey compared to LSST Y10 (FoMHLSwide = 2.4 FoMLSST) and compared to LSST + HLS (FoMHLSwide = 5.5 FoMHLSref). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00358711
Volume :
507
Issue :
1
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
152418299
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab533