2017/08/31 by M. A. Troxel, N. MacCrann, J. Zuntz +132 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #astro-ph.CO
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.98.043528
published as Phys. Rev. D 98, 043528 (2018) · 32 pages, 19 figures; matches PRD referee response version
arxiv created 2018/04/30 · arxiv updated 2018/09/12
We use 26 million galaxies from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 1 shape catalogs over 1321 deg2 of the sky to produce the most significant measurement of cosmic shear in a galaxy survey to date. We constrain cosmological parameters in both the flat ΛCDM and wCDM models, while also varying the neutrino mass density. These results are shown to be robust using two independent shape catalogs, two independent \photoz calibration methods, and two independent analysis pipelines in a blind analysis. We find a 3.5% fractional uncertainty on σ8(Ωm/0.3)0.5 = 0.782+0.027-0.027 at 68% CL, which is a factor of 2.5 improvement over the fractional constraining power of our DES Science Verification results. In wCDM, we find a 4.8% fractional uncertainty on σ8(Ωm/0.3)0.5 = 0.777+0.036-0.038 and a dark energy equation-of-state w=-0.95+0.33-0.39. We find results that are consistent with previous cosmic shear constraints in σ8 -- Ωm, and see no evidence for disagreement of our weak lensing data with data from the CMB. Finally, we find no evidence preferring a wCDM model allowing w≠ -1. We expect further significant improvements with subsequent years of DES data, which will more than triple the sky coverage of our shape catalogs and double the effective integrated exposure time per galaxy.