Weak Lensing Observables in the Halo Model

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

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8 pages, 6 figures; matches version accepted for publication in PRD; improved comparison with the Millennium Simulation and di

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10.1103/PhysRevD.84.063004

The halo model (HM) describes the inhomogeneous universe as a collection of halos. The full nonlinear power spectrum of the universe is well approximated by the HM, whose prediction can be easily computed without lengthy numerical simulations. This makes the HM a useful tool in cosmology. Here we explore the lensing properties of the HM by use of the stochastic gravitational lensing (sGL) method. We obtain for the case of point sources exact and simple integral expressions for the expected value and variance of the lensing convergence, which encode detailed information about the internal halo properties. In particular a wide array of observational biases can be easily incorporated and the dependence of lensing on cosmology is properly taken into account. This simple setup should be useful for a quick calculation of the power spectrum and the related lensing observables, which can play an important role in the extraction of cosmological parameters from, e.g., SNe observations. Finally, we discuss the probability distribution function of the HM which encodes more information than the first two moments and can more strongly constrain the large-scale structures of the universe. To check the accuracy of our modelling we compare our predictions to the results from the Millennium Simulation.

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