Probing Primordial Non-Gaussianity with Weak Lensing Minkowski Functionals

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2012-04-23

arxiv.org/abs/1204.4981v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

12 pages, 3 figures, submitted to ApJ

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We study the cosmological information contained in the Minkowski Functionals (MFs) of weak gravitational lensing convergence maps. We show that the MFs provide strong constraints on the local type primordial non-Gaussianity parameter f_NL. We run a set of cosmological N-body simulations and perform ray-tracing simulations of weak lensing, to generate 100 independent convergence maps of 25 deg^2 field-of-view for f_NL = -100, 0 and 100. We perform a Fisher analysis to study the degeneracy among other cosmological parameters such as the dark energy equation of state parameter w and the fluctuation amplitude sigma_8. We use fully nonlinear covariance matrices evaluated from 1000 ray-tracing simulations. For the upcoming wide-field observations such as Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam survey with the proposed survey area of 1500 deg^2, the primordial non-Gaussianity can be constrained with a level of f_NL ~ 80 and w ~ 0.036 by weak lensing MFs. If simply scaled by the effective survey area, a 20000 deg^2 lensing survey using Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will give constraints of f_NL ~ 25 and w ~ 0.013. We show that these constraints can be further improved by a tomographic method using source galaxies in multiple redshift bins.

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