Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Cosmology with moments of weak lensing mass maps

Journal Article · Wed Oct 12 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · Phys.Rev.D

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.106.083509· OSTI ID:1838498

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1. Pennsylvania U.
2. Chicago U., Astron. Astrophys. Ctr.; Chicago U., KICP
3. Zurich, ETH
4. Pennsylvania U.; Chicago U., KICP
5. University Coll. London
6. University Coll. London; Ecole Normale Superieure
7. Portsmouth U., ICG
8. Barcelona, IEEC
9. Argonne
10. KIPAC, Menlo Park
11. Wisconsin U., Madison
12. Northeastern U.; LASTRO Observ.
13. Carnegie Mellon U.
14. Caltech
15. LBL, Berkeley
16. Ohio State U., CCAPP; Ohio State U.
17. UC, Santa Cruz
18. Caltech, JPL
19. LMU Munich (main)
20. Oxford U.; Jodrell Bank
21. U. Michigan, Ann Arbor
22. Arizona U., Astron. Dept. - Steward Observ.
23. University Coll. London; Sussex U., Astron. Ctr.
24. Cambridge U., DAMTP
25. Perimeter Inst. Theor. Phys.
26. Stanford U.; KIPAC, Menlo Park; SLAC
27. Campinas State U.
28. Jodrell Bank
29. KIPAC, Menlo Park; SLAC
30. Brookhaven
31. Duke U.
32. LIneA, Rio de Janeiro
33. Fermilab
34. Sao Paulo, IFT; LIneA, Rio de Janeiro
35. Paris, Inst. Astrophys.
36. NCSA, Urbana; Illinois U., Urbana, Astron. Dept.
37. Barcelona, IFAE
38. Trieste Observ.; SISSA, Trieste; IFPU, Trieste; INFN, Trieste
39. LIneA, Rio de Janeiro; Rio de Janeiro Observ.
40. U. Michigan, Ann Arbor; Hamburg Observ.
41. Madrid, CIEMAT; Madrid, Escuela Tec. Sup. Ing. Ind.
42. Indian Inst. Tech., Hyderabad
43. Chicago U., Astron. Astrophys. Ctr.; Fermilab; Chicago U., KICP
44. U. Michigan, Ann Arbor; U. Michigan, Dept. Astron.
45. Inst. Theor. Astrophys., Oslo
46. Madrid, IFT
47. Cambridge U., Inst. of Astron.; Cambridge U., KICC
48. Queensland U.
49. Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys.
50. Australia, CSIRO, North Ryde; Lowell Observ.
51. Australian Natl. U., Canberra (main)
52. Texas A-M
53. Princeton U., Astrophys. Sci. Dept.
54. ICREA, Barcelona; Barcelona, Autonoma U.; Barcelona, IFAE
55. UC, Berkeley, Astron. Dept.
56. NCSA, Urbana; Cambridge U., Inst. of Astron.
57. SLAC
58. Sussex U., Astron. Ctr.
59. Southampton U.
60. ORNL, Oak Ridge (main)
61. Garching, Max Planck Inst., MPE; Munich U.

We present a cosmological analysis using the second and third moments of the weak lensing mass (convergence) maps from the first three years of data (Y3) data of the Dark Energy Survey. The survey spans an effective area of 4139 square degrees and uses the images of over 100 million galaxies to reconstruct the convergence field. The second moment of the convergence as a function of smoothing scale contains information similar to standard shear 2-point statistics. The third moment, or the skewness, contains additional non-Gaussian information. The data is analyzed in the context of the $\mathrm{\Lambda }\mathrm{CDM}$ model, varying five cosmological parameters and 19 nuisance parameters modeling astrophysical and measurement systematics. Our modeling of the observables is completely analytical, and has been tested with simulations in our previous methodology study. We obtain a 1.7% measurement of the amplitude of fluctuations parameter $S_8\equiv {\sigma }_8({\mathrm{\Omega }}_m/0.3{)}^{0.5}=0.784\pm 0.013$ . The measurements are shown to be internally consistent across redshift bins, angular scales, and between second and third moments. In particular, the measured third moment is consistent with the expectation of gravitational clustering under the $\mathrm{\Lambda }\mathrm{CDM}$ model. The addition of the third moment improves the constraints on $S_8$ and ${\mathrm{\Omega }}_{\mathrm{m}}$ by $\sim 15\%$ and $\sim 25\%$ compared to an analysis that only uses second moments. We compare our results with Planck constraints from the cosmic microwave background, finding a $2.2–2.8\sigma$ tension in the full parameter space, depending on the combination of moments considered. The third moment, independently, is in $2.8\sigma$ tension with Planck, and thus provides a cross-check on the analyses of 2-point correlations.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Arizona U., Astron. Dept. - Steward Observ.; Australia, CSIRO, North Ryde; Australian Natl. U., Canberra (main); Barcelona, Autonoma U.; Barcelona, IEEC; Barcelona, IFAE; Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Caltech; Caltech, JPL; Cambridge U., DAMTP; Cambridge U., Inst. of Astron.; Cambridge U., KICC; Campinas State U.; Carnegie Mellon U.; Chicago U., Astron. Astrophys. Ctr.; Chicago U., KICP; Duke U.; Ecole Normale Superieure; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Garching, Max Planck Inst., MPE; Hamburg Observ.; Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys.; ICREA, Barcelona; IFPU, Trieste; INFN, Trieste; Illinois U., Urbana, Astron. Dept.; Indian Inst. Tech., Hyderabad; Inst. Theor. Astrophys., Oslo; Jodrell Bank; LASTRO Observ.; LIneA, Rio de Janeiro; LMU Munich (main); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Lowell Observ.; Madrid, CIEMAT; Madrid, Escuela Tec. Sup. Ing. Ind.; Madrid, IFT; Munich U.; NCSA, Urbana; Northeastern U.; Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Ohio State U.; Ohio State U., CCAPP; Oxford U.; Paris, Inst. Astrophys.; Pennsylvania U.; Perimeter Inst. Theor. Phys.; Portsmouth U., ICG; Princeton U., Astrophys. Sci. Dept.; Queensland U.; Rio de Janeiro Observ.; SISSA, Trieste; SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Sao Paulo, IFT; Southampton U.; Stanford U.; Sussex U., Astron. Ctr.; Texas A-M; Trieste Observ.; U. Michigan, Ann Arbor; U. Michigan, Dept. Astron.; UC, Berkeley, Astron. Dept.; UC, Santa Cruz; University Coll. London; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States); Wisconsin U., Madison; Zurich, ETH
• Sponsoring Organization: US Department of Energy; USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
• Contributing Organization: DES Collaboration; DES collaboration
• Grant/Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359; AC05-00OR22725; SC0019193
• OSTI ID: 1838498
• Alternate ID(s): OSTI ID: 1974865; OSTI ID: 1992719
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-PUB-21-492-AE; oai:inspirehep.net:1947448; arXiv:2110.10141
• Journal Information: Phys.Rev.D, Journal Name: Phys.Rev.D Journal Issue: 8 Vol. 106
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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