Weak Lensing by Large-Scale Structure: A Dark Matter Halo Approach

Details Weak Lensing by Large-Scale Structure: A Dark Matter Halo Approach Weak Lensing by Large-Scale Structure: A Dark Matter Halo Approach

2000-03-14

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0003205v1

Astrophys.J. 535 (2000) L9-L12

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 ApJ pages, 3 figures; submitted to ApJ Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/312696

Weak gravitational lensing observations probe the spectrum and evolution of density fluctuations and the cosmological parameters which govern them but are currently limited to small fields and subject to selection biases. We show how the expected signal from large-scale structure arises from the contributions from and correlations between individual halos. We determine the convergence power spectrum as a function of the maximum halo mass and so provide the means to interpret results from surveys that lack high mass halos either through selection criteria or small fields. Since shot noise from rare massive halos is mainly responsible for the sample variance below 10', our method should aid our ability to extract cosmological information from small fields.

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