Cosmology from galaxy lensing and clustering Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Jullo E.
  2. de la Torre S.
  3. Cousinou M.-C.
  4. Escoffier S.
  5. Giocoli C.,Benton Metcalf R.
  6. Comparat J.
  7. Shan H.-Y.
  8. Makler M.
  9. Kneib J.-P.,Prada F.
  10. Yepes G.
  11. Gottloeber S.
  12. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

The combination of Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing (GGL) and Redshift Space Distortion of galaxy clustering (RSD) is a privileged technique to test General Relativity predictions, and break degeneracies between the growth rate of structure parameter f and the amplitude of the linear power-spectrum {sigma}8. We perform a joint GGL and RSD analysis on 250 sq. degrees using shape catalogues from CFHTLenS and CFHT-Stripe 82, and spectroscopic redshifts from the BOSS CMASS sample. We adjust a model that includes non-linear biasing, RSD and Alcock-Paczynski effects. We find f(z=0.57)=0.95+/-0.23, {sigma}8(z=0.57)=0.55+/-0.07 and {OMEGA}m=0.31+/-0.08, in agreement with Planck cosmological results 2018. We also estimate the probe of gravity E_G_=0.43+/-0.10 in agreement with {LAMBDA}CDM-GR predictions of E_G_=0.40. This analysis reveals that RSD efficiently decreases the GGL uncertainty on {OMEGA}m by a factor of 4, and by 30% on {sigma}8. We use an N-body simulation supplemented by an abundance matching prescription for CMASS to build a set of overlapping lensing and clustering mocks. Together with additional spectroscopic data, this helps us to quantify and correct several systematic errors, such as photometric redshifts. We make our mock catalogues available on the Skies and Universe database.

Keywords
  1. galaxies
  2. catalogs
  3. gravitational-lensing
  4. astronomical-models
  5. redshifted
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2019A&A...627A.137J
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/627/A137
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/627/A137
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.36270137

Access

Web browser access HTML
http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/A+A/627/A137
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/A+A/627/A137
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/A+A/627/A137
IVOA Table Access TAP
http://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tap
Run SQL-like queries with TAP-enabled clients (e.g., TOPCAT).

History

2019-07-12T10:02:59Z
Resource record created
2019-07-12T10:02:59Z
Created
2019-10-17T14:17:43Z
Updated

Contact

Name
CDS support team
Postal Address
CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'Universite, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
E-Mail
cds-question@unistra.fr