A New Measure for Weak Lensing Flexion

Details A New Measure for Weak Lensing Flexion A New Measure for Weak Lensing Flexion

2006-07-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0607288v3

Astrophys.J.660:995-1002,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

18 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/513135

We study a possibility to use the octopole moment of gravitationally lensed images as a direct measure of the third-order weak gravitational lensing effect, or the gravitational flexion. It turns out that there is a natural relation between flexion and certain combinations of octopole/higher-multipole moments which we call the Higher Order Lensing Image's Characteristics (HOLICs). This will allow one to measure directly flexion from observable octopole and higher-multipole moments of background images. We show based on simulated observations how the use of HOLICs can improve the accuracy and resolution of a reconstructed mass map, in which we assume Gaussian uncertainties in the shape measurements estimated using deep i'-band data of blank fields observed with Suprime-Cam on the Subaru telescope.

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