Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-03-06
Phys.Rev.D83:123514,2011
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
12 pages, 10 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.83.123514
We present forecast results for constraining the primordial non-Gaussianity from photometric surveys through a large-scale enhancement of the galaxy clustering amplitude. In photometric surveys, the distribution of observed galaxies at high redshifts suffers from the gravitational-lensing magnification, which systematically alters the number density for magnitude-limited galaxy samples. We estimate size of the systematic bias in the best-fit cosmological parameters caused by the magnification effect, particularly focusing on the primordial non-Gaussianity. For upcoming deep and/or wide photometric surveys like HSC, DES and LSST, the best-fit value of the non-Gaussian parameter, fNL, obtained from the galaxy count data is highly biased, and the true values of fNL would typically go outside the 3-sigma error of the biased confidence region, if we ignore the magnification effect in the theoretical template of angular power spectrum. The additional information from cosmic shear data helps not only to improve the constraint, but also to reduce the systematic bias. As a result, the size of systematic bias on fNL would become small enough compared to the expected 1-sigma error for HSC and DES, but it would be still serious for deep surveys with z_m > 1.5, like LSST. Tomographic technique improves the constraint on fNL by a factor of 2-3 compared to the one without tomography, but the systematic bias would increase.
Namikawa Toshiya
Okamura Tomohiro
Taruya Atsushi
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