Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-10-21
New Astron. 8 (2003) 581-603
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Submitted to New Astronomy. High resolution version available at http://feynman.princeton.edu/~paddy
Scientific paper
10.1016/S1384-1076(03)00055-1
We present a survey of the cosmological applications of the next generation of weak lensing surveys, paying special attention to the computational challenges presented by the number of galaxies, $N_{gal} ~$ 10$^{5}$. We focus on optimal methods with no pixelization and derive a multigrid $P^3M$ algorithm that performs the relevant computations in $O(N_{gal} \log N_{gal})$ time. We test the algorithm by studying three applications of weak lensing surveys - convergence map reconstruction, cluster detection and $E$ and $B$ power spectrum estimation using realistic 1 deg^{2} simulations derived from N-body simulations. The map reconstruction is able to reconstruct large scale features without artifacts. Detecting clusters using only weak lensing is difficult because of line of sight contamination and noise, with low completeness if one desires low contamination of the sample. A power spectrum analysis of the convergence field is more promising and we are able to reconstruct the convergence spectrum with no loss of information down to the smallest scales. The numerical methods used here can be applied to other data sets with same $O(N\log N)$ scaling and can be generalised to a sphere.
Padmanabhan Nikhil
Pen U.-L.
Seljak Uros
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