New constraints on sigma(8) from a joint analysis of stacked gravitational lensing and clustering of galaxy clusters

作者：Sereno Mauro; Veropalumbo Alfonso; Marulli Federico; Covone Giovanni; Moscardini Lauro; Cimatti Andrea

来源：Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2015, 449(4): 4147-4161.

DOI：10.1093/mnras/stv280

• gravitational lensing: weak
• galaxies: clusters: general
• cosmological parameters
• large-scale structure of Universe

The joint analysis of clustering and stacked gravitational lensing of galaxy clusters in large surveys can constrain the formation and evolution of structures and the cosmological parameters. On scales outside a few virial radii, the halo bias, b, is linear and the lensing signal is dominated by the correlated distribution of matter around galaxy clusters. We discuss a method to measure the power spectrum amplitude sigma(8) and b based on a minimal modelling. We considered a sample of similar to 120 000 clusters photometrically selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in the redshift range 0.1 < z < 0.6. The autocorrelation was studied through the two-point function of a subsample of similar to 70 000 clusters; the matter-halo correlation was derived from the weak lensing signal of the subsample of similar to 1200 clusters with Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey data. We obtained a direct measurement of b, which increases with mass in agreement with predictions of the Lambda cold dark matter paradigm. Assuming Omega(M) = 0.3, we found sigma(8) = 0.79 +/- 0.16. We used the same clusters for measuring both lensing and clustering and the estimate of sigma(8) did require neither the mass-richness relation, nor the knowledge of the selection function, nor the modelling of b. With an additional theoretical prior on the bias, we obtained sigma(8) = 0.75 +/- 0.08.

• 出版日期2015-6-1