Gatti, M;
Jain, B;
Chang, C;
Raveri, M;
Zürcher, D;
Secco, L;
Whiteway, L;
... Varga, TN; + view all
(2022)
Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Cosmology with moments of weak lensing mass maps.
Physical Review D
, 106
(15)
, Article 083509. 10.1103/PhysRevD.106.083509.
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Abstract
We present a cosmological analysis using the second and third moments of the weak lensing mass (convergence) maps from the first three years of data (Y3) data of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). The survey spans an effective area of 4139 square degrees and uses the images of over 100 million galaxies to reconstruct the convergence field. The second moment of the convergence as a function of smoothing scale contains information similar to standard shear 2-point statistics. The third moment, or the skewness, contains additional non-Gaussian information. The data is analysed in the context of the $\Lambda$CDM model, varying 5 cosmological parameters and 19 nuisance parameters modelling astrophysical and measurement systematics. Our modelling of the observables is completely analytical, and has been tested with simulations in our previous methodology study. We obtain a 1.7\% measurement of the amplitude of fluctuations parameter $S_8\equiv \sigma_8 (\Omega_m/0.3)^{0.5} = 0.784\pm 0.013$. The measurements are shown to be internally consistent across redshift bins, angular scales, and between second and third moments. In particular, the measured third moment is consistent with the expectation of gravitational clustering under the $\Lambda$CDM model. The addition of the third moment improves the constraints on $S_8$ and $\Omega_{\rm m}$ by $\sim$15\% and $\sim$25\% compared to an analysis that only uses second moments. We compare our results with {\it Planck} constraints from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), finding a $2.2$ \textendash $2.8\sigma$ tension in the full parameter space, depending on the combination of moments considered. The third moment independently is in $2.8\sigma$ tension with {\it Planck}, and thus provides a cross-check on analyses of 2-point correlations.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Cosmology with moments of weak lensing mass maps |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.106.083509 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.106.083509 |
| 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. |
| UCL classification: | 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 UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10158133 |
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