2010/09/10 by B. Joachimi, Benjamin Joachimi, P. Schneider +3
Engineering · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Control Systems and Identification #Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) #FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods #Statistical and numerical algorithms #astro-ph.CO #astro-ph.IM
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1009.2024
10 pages, 6 figures; to appear in the proceedings of Astronomical Data Analysis 6, Monastir, Tunisia, 3-7 May 2010
arxiv created 2010/09/10 · openalex publication_date 2010/09/10 · arxiv updated 2010/09/13 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The intrinsic alignment of galaxies constitutes the major astrophysical source of systematic errors in surveys of weak gravitational lensing by the large-scale structure. We discuss the principles, summarise the implementation, and highlight the performance of two model-independent methods that control intrinsic alignment signals in weak lensing data: the nulling technique which eliminates intrinsic alignments to ensure unbiased constraints on cosmology, and the boosting technique which extracts intrinsic alignments and hence allows one to further study this contribution. Making only use of the characteristic dependence on redshift of the signals, both approaches are robust, but reduce the statistical power due to the similar redshift scaling of intrinsic alignment and lensing signals.