Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-06-02
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.366:101-114,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
20 pages, 9 figures, to be submitted to MNRAS. Comments are welcome
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09782.x
We study the impact of systematic errors on planned weak lensing surveys and compute the requirements on their contributions so that they are not a dominant source of the cosmological parameter error budget. The generic types of error we consider are multiplicative and additive errors in measurements of shear, as well as photometric redshift errors. In general, more powerful surveys have stronger systematic requirements. For example, for a SNAP-type survey the multiplicative error in shear needs to be smaller than 1%(fsky/0.025)^{-1/2} of the mean shear in any given redshift bin, while the centroids of photometric redshift bins need to be known to better than 0.003(fsky/0.025)^{-1/2}. With about a factor of two degradation in cosmological parameter errors, future surveys can enter a self-calibration regime, where the mean systematic biases are self-consistently determined from the survey and only higher-order moments of the systematics contribute. Interestingly, once the power spectrum measurements are combined with the bispectrum, the self-calibration regime in the variation of the equation of state of dark energy w_a is attained with only a 20-30% error degradation.
Bernstein Gary
Huterer Dragan
Jain Bhuvnesh
Takada Masahiro
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