Designing Weak Lensing Surveys: A Generalised Eigenmode Analysis

Details Designing Weak Lensing Surveys: A Generalised Eigenmode Analysis Designing Weak Lensing Surveys: A Generalised Eigenmode Analysis

2005-09-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0509548v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.366:983-995,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

substantial changes made, matches the version acceped by MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09857.x

We study the estimators of various second-order weak lensing statistics such as the shear correlation functions xi_\pm and the aperture mass dispersion which can directly be constructed from weak lensing shear maps. We compare the efficiency with which these estimators can be used to constrain cosmological parameters. To this end we introduce the Karhunen-Loeve (KL) eigenmode analysis techniques for weak lensing surveys. These tools are shown to be very effective as a diagnostics for optimising survey strategies. The usefulness of these tools to study the effect of angular binning, the depth and width of the survey and noise contributions due to intrinsic ellipticities and number density of source galaxies on the estimation of cosmological parameters is demonstrated. Results from independent analysis of various parameters and joint estimations are compared. We also study how degeneracies among various cosmological and survey parameters affect the eigenmodes associated with these parameters.

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