Rivi, M;
Miller, L;
(2018)
Radio weak lensing shear measurement in the visibility domain - II. Source extraction.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
, 476
(2)
pp. 2053-2062.
10.1093/mnras/sty371.
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Abstract
This paper extends the method introduced in Rivi et al. (2016b) to measure galaxy ellipticities in the visibility domain for radio weak lensing surveys. In that paper, we focused on the development and testing of the method for the simple case of individual galaxies located at the phase centre, and proposed to extend it to the realistic case of many sources in the field of view by isolating visibilities of each source with a faceting technique. In this second paper, we present a detailed algorithm for source extraction in the visibility domain and show its effectiveness as a function of the source number density by running simulations of SKA1-MID observations in the band 950–1150 MHz and comparing original and measured values of galaxies’ ellipticities. Shear measurements from a realistic population of 104 galaxies randomly located in a field of view of 1 deg2 deg2 (i.e. the source density expected for the current radio weak lensing survey proposal with SKA1) are also performed. At SNR ≥ 10, the multiplicative bias is only a factor 1.5 worse than what found when analysing individual sources, and is still comparable to the bias values reported for similar measurement methods at optical wavelengths. The additive bias is unchanged from the case of individual sources, but it is significantly larger than typically found in optical surveys. This bias depends on the shape of the uv coverage and we suggest that a uv-plane weighting scheme to produce a more isotropic shape could reduce and control additive bias.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Radio weak lensing shear measurement in the visibility domain - II. Source extraction |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/sty371 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty371 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This is the published version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
Keywords: | gravitational lensing: weak, methods: statistical, techniques: interferometric, cosmology: observations |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10048590 |
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