Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-09-09
Astrophys.J.644:663-670,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
8 pages, 6 figures, submitted to ApJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/503622
Weak lensing surveys that can potentially place strong constraints on dark energy parameters can only do so if the source redshift means and error distributions are very well known. We investigate prospects for controlling errors in these quantities by exploiting their influence on the power spectra of the galaxies. Although, from the galaxy power spectra alone, sufficiently precise and simultaneous determination of redshift biases and variances is not possible, a strong consistency test is. Given the redshift error rms, galaxy power spectra can be used to determine the mean redshift of a group of galaxies to subpercent accuracy. Although galaxy power spectra cannot be used to determine the redshift error rms, they can be used to determine this rms divided by the Hubble parameter, a quantity that may be even more valuable for interpretation of cosmic shear data than the rms itself. We also show that galaxy power spectra, due to the baryonic acoustic oscillations, can potentially lead to constraints on dark energy that are competitive with those due to the cosmic shear power spectra from the same survey.
Knox Lloyd
Zhan Hu
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