MacCrann, N;
Becker, MR;
McCullough, J;
Amon, A;
Gruen, D;
Jarvis, M;
Choi, A;
... Wilkinson, RD; + view all
(2022)
Dark Energy Survey Y3 results: Blending shear and redshift biases in image simulations.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
, 509
(3)
pp. 3371-3394.
10.1093/mnras/stab2870.
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Abstract
As the statistical power of galaxy weak lensing reaches per cent level precision, large, realistic, and robust simulations are required to calibrate observational systematics, especially given the increased importance of object blending as survey depths increase. To capture the coupled effects of blending in both shear and photometric redshift calibration, we define the effective redshift distribution for lensing, nγ(z), and describe how to estimate it using image simulations. We use an extensive suite of tailored image simulations to characterize the performance of the shear estimation pipeline applied to the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 3 data set. We describe the multiband, multi-epoch simulations, and demonstrate their high level of realism through comparisons to the real DES data. We isolate the effects that generate shear calibration biases by running variations on our fiducial simulation, and find that blending-related effects are the dominant contribution to the mean multiplicative bias of approximately $-2{{ rm per cent}}$. By generating simulations with input shear signals that vary with redshift, we calibrate biases in our estimation of the effective redshift distribution, and demonstrate the importance of this approach when blending is present. We provide corrected effective redshift distributions that incorporate statistical and systematic uncertainties, ready for use in DES Year 3 weak lensing analyses.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Dark Energy Survey Y3 results: Blending shear and redshift biases in image simulations |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/stab2870 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2870 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | gravitational lensing: weak, large-scale structure of Universe |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10142056 |
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