Cosmological information from quasar-galaxy correlations induced by weak lensing
The magnification bias of large-scale structures, combined with galaxy biasing, leads to a cross-correlation of distant quasars with foreground galaxies on angular scales of the order of arc minutes and larger. The amplitude and angular shape of the cross-correlation function w_QG contain informatio...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) Chapter/Article |
| Language: | English |
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January 5, 2014
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Arxiv
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| Online Access: | Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0203163
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| Author Notes: | Brice Menard and Matthias Bartelmann |
| Summary: | The magnification bias of large-scale structures, combined with galaxy biasing, leads to a cross-correlation of distant quasars with foreground galaxies on angular scales of the order of arc minutes and larger. The amplitude and angular shape of the cross-correlation function w_QG contain information on cosmological parameters and the galaxy bias factor. While the existence of this cross-correlation has firmly been established, existing data did not allow an accurate measurement of w_QG yet, but wide area surveys like the Sloan Digital Sky Survey now provide an ideal database for measuring it. However, w_QG depends on several cosmological parameters and the galaxy bias factor. We study in detail the sensitivity of w_QG to these parameters and develop a strategy for using the data. We show that the parameter space can be reduced to the bias factor b, Omega_0 and sigma_8, and compute the accuracy with which these parameters can be deduced from SDSS data. Under reasonable assumptions, it should be possible to reach relative accuracies of the order of 5%-15% for b, Omega_0, and sigma_8. This method is complementary to other weak-lensing analyses based on cosmic shear. |
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