Neutrino Mass and Dark Energy from Weak Lensing

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2002-12-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0212216v2

Phys.Rev.Lett. 91 (2003) 041301

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.041301

Weak gravitational lensing of background galaxies by intervening matter directly probes the mass distribution in the universe. This distribution, and its evolution at late times, is sensitive to both the dark energy, a negative pressure energy density component, and neutrino mass. We examine the potential of lensing experiments to measure features of both simultaneously. Focusing on the radial information contained in a future deep 4000 square degree survey, we find that the expected (1-sigma) error on a neutrino mass is 0.1 eV, if the dark energy parameters are allowed to vary. The constraints on dark energy parameters are similarly restrictive, with errors on w of 0.09. Much of the restrictive power on the dark energy comes not from the evolution of the gravitational potential but rather from how distances vary as a function of redshift in different cosmologies.

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