The cosmology dependence of weak lensing cluster counts

Details The cosmology dependence of weak lensing cluster counts The cosmology dependence of weak lensing cluster counts

2008-11-13

arxiv.org/abs/0811.1991v2

Astrophys.J.698:L33-L36,2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJL. Figure 1 modified, unchanged conclusions

Scientific paper

10.1088/0004-637X/698/1/L33

We present the main results of a numerical study of weak lensing cluster counting. We examine the scaling with cosmology of the projected-density-peak mass function. Our main conclusion is that the projected-peak and the three-dimensional mass functions scale with cosmology in an astonishingly close way. This means that, despite being derived from a two-dimensional field, the weak lensing cluster abundance can be used to constrain cosmology in the same way as the three-dimensional mass function probed by other types of surveys.

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