Thursday, December 8, 2011

1112.1495 (Patrick Valageas et al.)

Modeling of weak lensing statistics. II. Configuration-space statistics    [PDF]

Patrick Valageas, Masanori Sato, Takahiro Nishimichi
We investigate the performance of an analytic model of the 3D matter distribution, which combines perturbation theory with halo models, for weak lensing configuration-space statistics. We compare our predictions for the weak lensing convergence two-point and three-point correlation functions with numerical simulations and fitting formulas proposed in previous works. We also consider the second and third-order moments of the smoothed convergence and of the aperture-mass. As in our previous study of Fourier-space weak lensing statistics, we find that our model provides better agreement with simulations than published fitting formulas. Moreover, we check that we recover the dependence on cosmology of these weak lensing statistics. This approach allows us to obtain the quantitative relationship between these integrated weak lensing statistics and the various contributions to the underlying 3D density fluctuations, decomposed over perturbative, 2-halo, or 1-halo terms.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.1495

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