Weak lensing shear and aperture-mass from linear to non-linear scales
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In this paper we describe the predictions for the smoothed weak lensing shear and aperture-mass of two simple analytical models of the density field: the minimal tree-model and the stellar model. Both models give identical results for the statistics of the 3-d density contrast smoothed over spherical cells and only differ by the detailed angular dependence of the many-body density correlations. We have shown in previous work that they also yield almost identical results for the pdf of the smoothed convergence, κs. We find that both models give rather close results for both the shear and the positive tail of the aperture-mass. However, we note that at small angular scales (θs <∼ 2 ) the tail of the pdf P(Map) for negative Map shows a strong variation between the two models and the stellar model actually breaks down for θs <∼ 0.4 ′ and Map < 0. This shows that the statistics of the aperture-mass provides a very precise probe of the detailed structure of the density field, as it is sensitive to both the amplitude and the detailed angular behaviour of the many-body correlations. On the other hand, the minimal tree-model shows good agreement with numerical simulations over all scales and redshifts of interest, while both models provide a good description of the pdf P(γis) of the smoothed shear components. Therefore, the shear and the aperture-mass provide robust and complimentary tools to measure the cosmological parameters as well as the detailed statistical properties of the density field.
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تاریخ انتشار 2003