Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-12-09
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 330 (2002) 365
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
14 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05103.x
The correlation between source galaxies and lensing potentials causes a systematic effect on measurements of cosmic shear statistics, known as the source-lens clustering (SLC) effect. The SLC effect on the skewness of lensing convergence, $S_3$, is examined using a nonlinear semi-analytic approach and is checked against numerical simulations. The semi-analytic calculations have been performed in a wide variety of generic models for the redshift distribution of source galaxies and power-law models for the bias parameter between the galaxy and dark matter distributions. The semi-analytic predictions are tested successfully against numerical simulations. We find the relative amplitude of the SLC effect on $S_3$ to be of the order of five to forty per cent. It depends significantly on the redshift distribution of sources and on the way the bias parameter evolves. We discuss possible measurement strategies to minimize the SLC effects.
Bernardeau Francis
Colombi Stephane T.
Devriendt Julien E. G. T.
Hamana Takashi
Mellier Yannick
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