First cosmic shear results from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Wide Synoptic Legacy Survey

Details First cosmic shear results from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Wide Synoptic Legacy Survey First cosmic shear results from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Wide Synoptic Legacy Survey

2005-11-03

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0511089v1

Astrophys.J.647:116-127,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Submitted to ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/503249

We present the first measurements of the weak gravitational lensing signal induced by the large scale mass distribution from data obtained as part of the ongoing Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey (CFHTLS). The data used in this analysis are from the Wide Synoptic Survey, which aims to image ~170 square degree in five filters. We have analysed ~22 deg2 (31 pointings) of i' data spread over two of the three survey fields. These data are of excellent quality and the results bode well for the remainder of the survey: we do not detect a significant `B'-mode, suggesting that residual systematics are negligible at the current level of accuracy. Assuming a Cold Dark Matter model and marginalising over the Hubble parameter h=[0.6,0.8], the source redshift distribution and systematics, we constrain sigma_8, the amplitude of the matter power spectrum. At a fiducial matter density Omega_m=0.3 we find sigma_8=0.85+-0.06. This estimate is in excellent agreement with previous studies. Combination of our results with those from the Deep component of the CFHTLS enables us to place a constraint on a constant equation of state for the dark energy, based on cosmic shear data alone. We find that w_0<-0.8 at 68% confidence.

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