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Asgari, M, Heymans, C, Hildebrandt, H, Miller, L, Schneider, P, Amon, A, Choi, A, Erben, T, Georgiou, C, Harnois-Déraps, J and Kuijken, K (2019) Consistent cosmic shear in the face of systematics: a B-mode analysis of KiDS-450, DES-SV and CFHTLenS. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 624. ISSN 0004-6361
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Abstract
We analyse three public cosmic shear surveys; the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-450), the Dark Energy Survey (DES-SV) and the Canada France Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS). Adopting the “COSEBIs” statistic to cleanly and completely separate the lensing E-modes from the non-lensing B-modes, we detect B-modes in KiDS-450 and CFHTLenS at the level of ∼2.7σ. For DES-SV we detect B-modes at the level of 2.8σ in a non-tomographic analysis, increasing to a 5.5σB-mode detection in a tomographic analysis. In order to understand the origin of these detected B-modes we measure the B-mode signature of a range of different simulated systematics including PSF leakage, random but correlated PSF modelling errors, camera-based additive shear bias and photometric redshift selection bias. We show that any correlation between photometric-noise and the relative orientation of the galaxy to the point-spread-function leads to an ellipticity selection bias in tomographic analyses. This work therefore introduces a new systematic for future lensing surveys to consider. We find that the B-modes in DES-SV appear similar to a superposition of the B-mode signatures from all of the systematics simulated. The KiDS-450 and CFHTLenS B-mode measurements show features that are consistent with a repeating additive shear bias.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QB Astronomy Q Science > QC Physics |
| Divisions: | Astrophysics Research Institute |
| Publisher: | EDP Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jul 2020 08:48 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2021 06:58 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1051/0004-6361/201834379 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/13335 |
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