Weak-lensing results from the 75 square degree Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory Survey

被引:154
作者
Jarvis, M [1 ]
Bernstein, GM
Fischer, P
Smith, D
Jain, B
Tyson, JA
Wittman, D
机构
[1] Univ Penn, Dept Phys & Astron, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
[2] Univ Michigan, Dept Astron, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[3] Bell Labs, Lucent Technol, Murray Hill, NJ 07974 USA
关键词
gravitational lensing; large-scale structure of universe;
D O I
10.1086/367799
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We measure seeing-corrected ellipticities for 2 x 10(6) galaxies with magnitude R less than or equal to 23 in 12 widely separated fields totaling 75 deg(2) of sky. At angular scales greater than or similar to30', ellipticity correlations are detected at high significance and exhibit nearly the pure "E mode" behavior expected of weak gravitational lensing. Even when smoothed to the full field size of 2.degrees5, which is approximate to25 h(-1) Mpc at the lens distances, an rms shear variance of (gamma(2))(1/2) = 0.0012 +/- 0.0003 is detected. At smaller angular scales, there is significant "B-mode" power, an indication of residual uncorrected point-spread function distortions. The data at scales above 30 0 constrain the power spectrum of matter fluctuations on comoving scales of approximate to10 h(-1) Mpc to have sigma(8)(Omega(m)/0.3)(0.57) = 0.71(-0.16)(+0.12) (95% confidence level, LambdaCDM, Gamma = 0.21), where the systematic error includes statistical and calibration uncertainties, cosmic variance, and a conservative estimate of systematic contamination based upon the detected B-mode signal. This normalization of the power spectrum is lower than, but generally consistent with, previous weak-lensing results, is at the lower end of the sigma(8) range from various analyses of galaxy cluster abundances, and agrees with recent determinations from cosmic microwave background and galaxy clustering. The large and dispersed sky coverage of our survey reduces random errors and cosmic variance, while the relatively shallow depth allows us to use existing redshift survey data to reduce systematic uncertainties in the N(z) distribution to insignificance. Reanalysis of the data with more sophisticated algorithms will hopefully reduce the systematic (B mode) contamination and allow more precise, multidimensional constraint of cosmological parameters.
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页码:1014 / 1032
页数:19
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