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Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Cosmology from cosmic shear and robustness to modeling uncertainty

Secco, L. F.
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Samuroff, S.
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Krause, E.
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January 13, 2022
Physical Review D

This work and its companion paper, Amon et al. [Phys. Rev. D 105, 023514 (2022)], present cosmic shear measurements and cosmological constraints from over 100 million source galaxies in the Darki Energy Survey (DES) Year 3 data. We constrain the lensing amplitude parameter S-8 equivalent to sigma(8)root Omega(m)/0.3 at the 3% level in Lambda CDM: S-8 = 0.759(-0.023)(+0.025) (68% CL). Our constraint is at the 2% level when using angular scale cuts that are optimized for the Lambda CDM analysis: S-8 = 0.772(-0.017)(+0.018) (68% CL). With cosmic shear alone, we find no statistically significant constraint on the dark energy equation-of-state parameter at our present statistical power. We carry out our analysis blind, and compare our measurement with constraints from two other contemporary weak lensing experiments: the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) and Hyper-Suprime Camera Subaru Strategic Program (HSC). We additionally quantify the agreement between our data and external constraints from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Our DES Y3 result under the assumption of ACDM is found to be in statistical agreement with Planck 2018, although favors a lower S-8 than the CMB-inferred value by 2.3 sigma (a p -value of 0.02). This paper explores the robustness of these cosmic shear results to modeling of intrinsic alignments, the matter power spectrum and baryonic physics. We additionally explore the statistical preference of our data for intrinsic alignment models of different complexity. The fiducial cosmic shear model is tested using synthetic data, and we report no biases greater than 0.3 sigma in the plane of S-8 x Omega(m) caused by uncertainties in the theoretical models.

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review article
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.105.023515
Web of Science ID

WOS:000752496800008

Author(s)
Secco, L. F.
Samuroff, S.
Krause, E.
Jain, B.
Blazek, J.  
Raveri, M.
Campos, A.
Amon, A.
Chen, A.
Doux, C.
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Date Issued

2022-01-13

Publisher

American Physical Society

Published in
Physical Review D
Volume

105

Issue

2

Article Number

023515

Subjects

Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Physics, Particles & Fields

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Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Physics

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challenge lightcone simulation

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2-point correlation-functions

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intrinsic galaxy shapes

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luminous red galaxies

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large-scale structure

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weak-lensing surveys

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photometric data set

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power spectrum

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baryonic feedback

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redshift inference

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