Yao, J;
Shan, H;
Zhang, P;
Liu, X;
Heymans, C;
Joachimi, B;
Asgari, M;
... Yan, Z; + view all
(2023)
KiDS-1000: Cross-correlation with Planck cosmic microwave background lensing and intrinsic alignment removal with self-calibration.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
, 673
, Article A111. 10.1051/0004-6361/202346020.
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Abstract
CONTEXT: Galaxy shear and cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing convergence cross-correlations contain additional information on cosmology with respect to auto-correlations. While remaining immune to certain systemic effects, these cross-correlations are nonetheless affected by the galaxy's intrinsic alignments (IA). These effects may, in fact, be responsible for the reported low lensing amplitude of the galaxy shear × CMB convergence cross-correlations, compared to the standard Planck ACDM (cosmological constant and cold dark matter) cosmology predictions. AIMS: In this work, we investigate how IA affects the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) galaxy lensing shear and Planck CMB lensing convergence cross-correlation and we compare it to previous treatments, both with and without IA taken into consideration. METHODS: We compared the marginalization over IA parameters and the IA self-calibration (SC) method (with additional observables defined only from the source galaxies) to demonstrate that SC can efficiently break the degeneracy between the CMB lensing amplitude, Alens, and the IA amplitude, AIA. We further investigated how different systematics affect the resulting AIA and Alens and we validated our results with the MICE2 simulation. RESULTS: We find that by including the SC method to constrain IA, the information loss due to the degeneracy between CMB lensing and IA is strongly reduced. The best-fit values are Alens = 0.84-0.22+0.22 and AIA = 0.60-1.03+1.03, while different angular scale cuts can affect Alens by ~10%. We show that an appropriate treatment of the boost factor, cosmic magnification, and photometric redshift modeling is important for obtaining the correct IA and cosmological results.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | KiDS-1000: Cross-correlation with Planck cosmic microwave background lensing and intrinsic alignment removal with self-calibration |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1051/0004-6361/202346020 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202346020 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Open Access article, published by EDP Sciences, under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This article is published in open access under the Subscribe to Open model. Subscribe to A&A to support open access publication. |
| Keywords: | Large-scale structure of Universe,galaxies: formation, gravitational lensing: weak |
| 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/10171848 |
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