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Simulating cosmic shear surveys with redshift information

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2005

Lindsay J. King ,
Patrick Simon  and
Peter Schneider
Lindsay J. King
Affiliation:
IoA, Cambridge University, Madingley Rd, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK email: ljk@ast.cam.ac.uk
Patrick Simon
Affiliation:
IAEF Universitaet Bonn, Auf dem Huegel 71, D-53121 Bonn, Germany email: psimon@astro.uni-bonn.de, peter@astro.uni-bonn.de
Peter Schneider
Affiliation:
IAEF Universitaet Bonn, Auf dem Huegel 71, D-53121 Bonn, Germany email: psimon@astro.uni-bonn.de, peter@astro.uni-bonn.de
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Abstract

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Cosmic shear is an essential cosmological tool, breaking degeneracies inherent to CMB data and providing an independent check of cosmological parameters. Upcoming cosmic shear surveys with photometric redshift information will enable tighter constraints to be placed on cosmological parameters, and allow us to explore how dark matter evolves. A Monte Carlo method to rapidly simulate mock surveys enables us to estimate the covariance matrix for the shear correlation functions, and hence the expected errors on cosmological parameter estimates given survey specifications. We also make brief remarks on the separation of the cosmic shear signal from any due to intrinsic galaxy alignments.To search for other articles by the author(s) go to: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html

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Contributed Papers
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 2004 , Issue IAUS225 , July 2004 , pp. 49 - 56
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© 2004 International Astronomical Union