Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-01-13
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.318:145,2000
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
17 pages including 8 figures and 1 table, MNRAS, submitted
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03707.x
Future weak lensing surveys will directly probe the density fluctuation in the universe. Recent studies have shown how the statistics of the weak lensing convergence field is related to the statistics of collapsed objects. Extending earlier analytical results on the probability distribution function of the convergence field we show that the bias associated with the convergence field can directly be related to the bias associated with the statistics of underlying over-dense objects. This will provide us a direct method to study the gravity induced bias in galaxy clustering. Based on our analytical results which use the hierarchical {\em ansatz} for non-linear clustering, we study how such a bias depends on the smoothing angle and the source red-shift. We compare our analytical results against ray tracing experiments through N-body simulations of four different realistic cosmological scenarios and found a very good match. Our study shows that the bias in the convergence map strongly depends on the background geometry and hence can help us in distinguishing different cosmological models in addition to improving our understanding of the gravity induced bias in galaxy clustering.
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