Issue |
A&A
Volume 638, June 2020
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Article Number | L1 | |
Number of page(s) | 8 | |
Section | Letters to the Editor | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936154 | |
Published online | 29 May 2020 |
Letter to the Editor
KiDS+VIKING-450 and DES-Y1 combined: Cosmology with cosmic shear
1
Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH, UK
e-mail: shahab.joudaki@physics.ox.ac.uk
2
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Astronomisches Institut, German Centre for Cosmological Lensing, Universitätsstr. 150, 44801 Bochum, Germany
3
Argelander-Institut für Astronomie, Universität Bonn, Auf dem Hügel 71, 53121 Bonn, Germany
4
Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK
5
Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, PO Box 9513, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
6
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Received:
22
June
2019
Accepted:
22
April
2020
We present a combined tomographic weak gravitational lensing analysis of the Kilo Degree Survey (KV450) and the Dark Energy Survey (DES-Y1). We homogenize the analysis of these two public cosmic shear datasets by adopting consistent priors and modeling of nonlinear scales, and determine new redshift distributions for DES-Y1 based on deep public spectroscopic surveys. Adopting these revised redshifts results in a 0.8σ reduction in the DES-inferred value for S8, which decreases to a 0.5σ reduction when including a systematic redshift calibration error model from mock DES data based on the MICE2 simulation. The combined KV450+DES-Y1 constraint on S8 = 0.762−0.024+0.025 is in tension with the Planck 2018 constraint from the cosmic microwave background at the level of 2.5σ. This result highlights the importance of developing methods to provide accurate redshift calibration for current and future weak-lensing surveys.
Key words: cosmology: observations / galaxies: photometry / gravitational lensing: weak / surveys
© ESO 2020
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