Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-02-27
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 337 (2002) 631
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
12 pages, 8 figures. Submitted to MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05939.x
We investigate the potential of weak gravitational lensing maps to differentiate between distinct cosmological models, considering cosmic variance due to a limited map extension and the presence of noise. We introduce a measure of the differentiation between two models under a chosen lensing statistics. That enables one to determine in which circumstances (map size and noise level), and for which lensing measures two models can be differentiated at a desired confidence level. As an application, we simulate convergence maps for three cosmological models (SCDM, OCDM, and $\Lambda$CDM), calculate several lensing analyses for them, and compute the differentiation between the models under these analyses. We use first, second, and higher order statistics, including Minkowski functionals, which provide a complete morphological characterization of the lensing maps. We examine for each lensing measure used how noise affects its description of the convergence, and how this affects its ability to differentiate between cosmological models. Our results corroborate to the valuable use of weak gravitational lensing as a cosmological tool.
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