Weak lensing bispectrum
Scott Dodelson, Pengjie Zhang
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Scott Dodelson, Pengjie Zhang
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Weak gravitational lensing of background galaxies offers an excellent opportunity to study the intervening distribution of matter. While much attention to date has focused on the two-point-function of the cosmic shear, the three-point-function, the bispectrum, also contains very useful cosmological information. Here, we compute three corrections to the bispectrum which are nominally of the same order as the leading term. We show that the corrections are small, so they can be ignored when analyzing present surveys. However, they will eventually have to be included for accurate parameter estimates from future surveys.
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Weak gravitational lensing of background galaxies offers an excellent opportunity to study the intervening distribution of matter. While much attention to date has focused on the two-point-function of the cosmic shear, the three-point-function, the bispectrum, also contains very useful cosmological information. Here, we compute three corrections to the bispectrum which are nominally of the same order as the leading term. We show that the corrections are small, so they can be ignored when analyzing present surveys. However, they will eventually have to be included for accurate parameter estimates from future surveys.
Key concepts: Bispectrum, Weak gravitational lensing, Physics, Gravitational lens, Gravitational lensing formalism, Galaxy, COSMIC cancer database, Statistical physics