Lensing without borders - I. A blind comparison of the amplitude of galaxy-galaxy lensing between independent imaging surveys Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • ABSTRACT Lensing without borders is a cross-survey collaboration created to assess the consistency of galaxygalaxy lensing signals () across different data sets and to carry out end-to-end tests of systematic errors. We perform a blind comparison of the amplitude of using lens samples from BOSS and six independent lensing surveys. We find good agreement between empirically estimated and reported systematic errors which agree to better than 2.3 in four lens bins and three radial ranges. For lenses with zL < 0.43 and considering statistical errors, we detect a 34 correlation between lensing amplitude and survey depth. This correlation could arise from the increasing impact at higher redshift of unrecognized galaxy blends on shear calibration and imperfections in photometric redshift calibration. At zL < 0.54, amplitudes may additionally correlate with foreground stellar density. The amplitude of these trends is within survey-defined systematic error budgets that are designed to include known shear and redshift calibration uncertainty. Using a fully empirical and conservative method, we do not find evidence for large unknown systematics. Systematic errors greater than 15percent (25percent) ruled out in three lens bins at 68percent (95percent) confidence at z > 0.54. Differences with respect to predictions based on clustering are observed to be at the 2030percent level. Our results therefore suggest that lensing systematics alone are unlikely to fully explain the lensing is low effect at z > 0.54. This analysis demonstrates the power of cross-survey comparisons and provides a promising path for identifying and reducing systematics in future lensing analyses.

published proceedings

  • MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

altmetric score

  • 9.68

author list (cited authors)

  • Leauthaud, A., Amon, A., Singh, S., Gruen, D., Lange, J. U., Huang, S., ... Wright, A. H.

citation count

  • 7

complete list of authors

  • Leauthaud, A||Amon, A||Singh, S||Gruen, D||Lange, JU||Huang, S||Robertson, NC||Varga, TN||Luo, Y||Heymans, C||Hildebrandt, H||Blake, C||Aguena, M||Allam, S||Andrade-Oliveira, F||Annis, J||Bertin, E||Bhargava, S||Blazek, J||Bridle, SL||Brooks, D||Burke, DL||Rosell, A Carnero||Kind, M Carrasco||Carretero, J||Castander, FJ||Cawthon, R||Choi, A||Costanzi, M||da Costa, LN||Pereira, MES||Davis, C||De Vicente, J||DeRose, J||Diehl, HT||Dietrich, JP||Doel, P||Eckert, K||Everett, S||Evrard, AE||Ferrero, I||Flaugher, B||Fosalba, P||Garcia-Bellido, J||Gatti, M||Gaztanaga, E||Gruendl, RA||Gschwend, J||Hartley, WG||Hollowood, DL||Honscheid, K||Jain, B||James, DJ||Jarvis, M||Joachimi, B||Kannawadi, A||Kim, AG||Krause, E||Kuehn, K||Kuijken, K||Kuropatkin, N||Lima, M||MacCrann, N||Maia, MAG||Makler, M||March, M||Marshall, JL||Melchior, P||Menanteau, F||Miquel, R||Miyatake, H||Mohr, JJ||Moraes, B||More, S||Surhud, M||Morgan, R||Myles, J||Ogando, RLC||Palmese, A||Paz-Chinchon, F||Malagon, AA Plazas||Prat, J||Rau, MM||Rhodes, J||Rodriguez-Monroy, M||Roodman, A||Ross, AJ||Samuroff, S||Sanchez, C||Sanchez, E||Scarpine, V||Schlegel, DJ||Schubnell, M||Serrano, S||Sevilla-Noarbe, I||Sifon, C||Smith, M||Speagle, JS||Suchyta, E||Tarle, G||Thomas, D||Tinker, J||To, C||Troxel, MA||Van Waerbeke, L||Vielzeuf, P||Wright, AH

publication date

  • February 2022