Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: curved-sky weak lensing mass map

Smith, Mathew, Chang, C., Pujol, A. and Mawdsley, B. , DES Collaboration (2018) Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: curved-sky weak lensing mass map. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 475 (3), 3165-3190. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stx3363).

Abstract

We construct the largest curved-sky galaxy weak lensing mass map to date from the DES first-year (DES Y1) data. The map, about 10 times larger than the previous work, is constructed over a contiguous ≈1500 deg2, covering a comoving volume of ≈10 Gpc3. The effects of masking, sampling, and noise are tested using simulations. We generate weak lensing maps from two DES Y1 shear catalogues, MetaCalibration and Im3shape, with sources at redshift 0.2 < z < 1.3, and in each of four bins in this range. In the highest signal-to-noise map, the ratio between the mean signal to noise in the E-mode map and the B-mode map is ∼1.5 (∼2) when smoothed with a Gaussian filter of σG = 30 (80) arcmin. The second and third moments of the convergence κ in the maps are in agreement with simulations. We also find no significant correlation of κ with maps of potential systematic contaminants. Finally, we demonstrate two applications of the mass maps: (1) cross-correlation with different foreground tracers of mass and (2) exploration of the largest peaks and voids in the maps.

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Author: Mathew Smith

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