Accurate Shear Recovery with Multi-Band Images of Hyper Suprime-Cam
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| author | Liu, Cong Zhang, Jun Li, Hekun Vaquero, Pedro Alonso Wang, Wenting |
| author_facet | Liu, Cong Zhang, Jun Li, Hekun Vaquero, Pedro Alonso Wang, Wenting |
| contents | The existing large scale weak lensing surveys typically reserve the best seeing conditions for a certain optical band to minimize shape measurement errors and maximize the number of usable background galaxies. This is because most popular shear measurement methods contain explicit or implicit thresholds on the galaxy-to-PSF (point spread function) size ratio, below which their shape measurement errors increase abruptly. Using the DECaLS data, we have previously demonstrated that the Fourier\_Quad method performs very well on poorly resolved galaxy images in general. It is therefore a ready tool for shear measurement with multi-band images regardless of their seeing conditions. In this paper, we apply the Fourier\_Quad pipeline on the multi-band images from the third public data release of the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program. We show that the shear catalogs from the five optical bands (g/r/i/z/y) all pass the field-distortion test with very high accuracy. Using the LOWZ and CMASS galaxies as foreground lenses, we show that the errorbar in the galaxy-galaxy lensing measurement can be decreased by factors around 15\% by combining shear catalogs from different bands. This indicates that it is worthful to do multi-bands shear measurements for a better shear statistics. |
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| spellingShingle | Accurate Shear Recovery with Multi-Band Images of Hyper Suprime-Cam Liu, Cong Zhang, Jun Li, Hekun Vaquero, Pedro Alonso Wang, Wenting Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics The existing large scale weak lensing surveys typically reserve the best seeing conditions for a certain optical band to minimize shape measurement errors and maximize the number of usable background galaxies. This is because most popular shear measurement methods contain explicit or implicit thresholds on the galaxy-to-PSF (point spread function) size ratio, below which their shape measurement errors increase abruptly. Using the DECaLS data, we have previously demonstrated that the Fourier\_Quad method performs very well on poorly resolved galaxy images in general. It is therefore a ready tool for shear measurement with multi-band images regardless of their seeing conditions. In this paper, we apply the Fourier\_Quad pipeline on the multi-band images from the third public data release of the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program. We show that the shear catalogs from the five optical bands (g/r/i/z/y) all pass the field-distortion test with very high accuracy. Using the LOWZ and CMASS galaxies as foreground lenses, we show that the errorbar in the galaxy-galaxy lensing measurement can be decreased by factors around 15\% by combining shear catalogs from different bands. This indicates that it is worthful to do multi-bands shear measurements for a better shear statistics. |
| title | Accurate Shear Recovery with Multi-Band Images of Hyper Suprime-Cam |
| topic | Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.00370 |