Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-05-20
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
10 pages, 7 figures
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15263.x
Within the context of constraining an expansion of the dark energy equation of state w(z) we show that the eigendecomposition of Fisher matrices is sensitive to both the maximum order of the expansion and the basis set choice. We investigate the Fisher matrix formalism in the case that a particular function is expanded in some basis set. As an example we show results for an all sky weak lensing tomographic experiment. We show that the set of eigenfunctions is not unique and that the best constrained functions are only reproduced accurately at very higher order N > 100, a tophat basis set requires an even higher order. We show that the common approach used for finding the marginalised eigenfunction errors is sensitive to the choice of non-w(z) parameters and priors. The eigendecomposition of Fisher matrices is a potentially useful tool that can be used to determine the predicted accuracy with which an experiment could constrain w(z). It also allows for the reconstruction of the redshift sensitivity of the experiment to changes in w(z). However the technique is sensitive to both the order and the basis set choice. Publicly available code is available as part of iCosmo at http://www.icosmo.org .
Amara Adam
Kitching Thomas D.
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