On the shear estimation bias induced by the spatial variation of colour across galaxy profiles
The spatial variation of the colour of a galaxy may introduce a bias in the measurement of its shape if the PSF profile depends on wavelength. We study how this bias depends on the properties of the PSF and the galaxies themselves. The bias depends on the scales used to estimate the shape, which may...
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| author | Semboloni, E Hoekstra, H Huang, Z Cardone, V Cropper, M Joachimi, B Kitching, T Kuijken, K Lombardi, M Maoli, R Mellier, Y Miller, L Rhodes, J Scaramella, R Schrabback, T Velander, M |
| author_facet | Semboloni, E Hoekstra, H Huang, Z Cardone, V Cropper, M Joachimi, B Kitching, T Kuijken, K Lombardi, M Maoli, R Mellier, Y Miller, L Rhodes, J Scaramella, R Schrabback, T Velander, M |
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| description | The spatial variation of the colour of a galaxy may introduce a bias in the measurement of its shape if the PSF profile depends on wavelength. We study how this bias depends on the properties of the PSF and the galaxies themselves. The bias depends on the scales used to estimate the shape, which may be used to optimise methods to reduce the bias. Here we develop a general approach to quantify the bias. Although applicable to any weak lensing survey, we focus on the implications for the ESA Euclid mission. Based on our study of synthetic galaxies we find that the bias is a few times 10^-3 for a typical galaxy observed by Euclid. Consequently, it cannot be neglected and needs to be accounted for. We demonstrate how one can do so using spatially resolved observations of galaxies in two filters. We show that HST observations in the F606W and F814W filters allow us to model and reduce the bias by an order of magnitude, sufficient to meet Euclid's scientific requirements. The precision of the correction is ultimately determined by the number of galaxies for which spatially-resolved observations in at least two filters are available. We use results from the Millennium Simulation to demonstrate that archival HST data will be sufficient for the tomographic cosmic shear analysis with the Euclid dataset. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:1b238d37-db5e-478e-976d-10aadd03f44d2022-03-26T10:58:44ZOn the shear estimation bias induced by the spatial variation of colour across galaxy profilesJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:1b238d37-db5e-478e-976d-10aadd03f44dEnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2012Semboloni, EHoekstra, HHuang, ZCardone, VCropper, MJoachimi, BKitching, TKuijken, KLombardi, MMaoli, RMellier, YMiller, LRhodes, JScaramella, RSchrabback, TVelander, MThe spatial variation of the colour of a galaxy may introduce a bias in the measurement of its shape if the PSF profile depends on wavelength. We study how this bias depends on the properties of the PSF and the galaxies themselves. The bias depends on the scales used to estimate the shape, which may be used to optimise methods to reduce the bias. Here we develop a general approach to quantify the bias. Although applicable to any weak lensing survey, we focus on the implications for the ESA Euclid mission. Based on our study of synthetic galaxies we find that the bias is a few times 10^-3 for a typical galaxy observed by Euclid. Consequently, it cannot be neglected and needs to be accounted for. We demonstrate how one can do so using spatially resolved observations of galaxies in two filters. We show that HST observations in the F606W and F814W filters allow us to model and reduce the bias by an order of magnitude, sufficient to meet Euclid's scientific requirements. The precision of the correction is ultimately determined by the number of galaxies for which spatially-resolved observations in at least two filters are available. We use results from the Millennium Simulation to demonstrate that archival HST data will be sufficient for the tomographic cosmic shear analysis with the Euclid dataset. |
| spellingShingle | Semboloni, E Hoekstra, H Huang, Z Cardone, V Cropper, M Joachimi, B Kitching, T Kuijken, K Lombardi, M Maoli, R Mellier, Y Miller, L Rhodes, J Scaramella, R Schrabback, T Velander, M On the shear estimation bias induced by the spatial variation of colour across galaxy profiles |
| title | On the shear estimation bias induced by the spatial variation of colour
across galaxy profiles |
| title_full | On the shear estimation bias induced by the spatial variation of colour
across galaxy profiles |
| title_fullStr | On the shear estimation bias induced by the spatial variation of colour
across galaxy profiles |
| title_full_unstemmed | On the shear estimation bias induced by the spatial variation of colour
across galaxy profiles |
| title_short | On the shear estimation bias induced by the spatial variation of colour
across galaxy profiles |
| title_sort | on the shear estimation bias induced by the spatial variation of colour across galaxy profiles |
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