Abbott, TMC;
Abdalla, FB;
Alarcon, A;
Aleksic, J;
Allam, S;
Allen, S;
Amara, A;
... Zuntz, J; + view all
(2018)
Dark Energy Survey year 1 results: Cosmological constraints from galaxy clustering and weak lensing.
Physical Review D
, 98
, Article 043526. 10.1103/PhysRevD.98.043526.
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Abstract
We present cosmological results from a combined analysis of galaxy clustering and weak gravitational lensing, using 1321 deg2 of griz imaging data from the first year of the Dark Energy Survey (DES Y1). We combine three two-point functions: (i) the cosmic shear correlation function of 26 million source galaxies in four redshift bins, (ii) the galaxy angular autocorrelation function of 650,000 luminous red galaxies in five redshift bins, and (iii) the galaxy-shear cross-correlation of luminous red galaxy positions and source galaxy shears. To demonstrate the robustness of these results, we use independent pairs of galaxy shape, photometric redshift estimation and validation, and likelihood analysis pipelines. To prevent confirmation bias, the bulk of the analysis was carried out while “blind” to the true results; we describe an extensive suite of systematics checks performed and passed during this blinded phase. The data are modeled in flat ΛCDM and wCDM cosmologies, marginalizing over 20 nuisance parameters, varying 6 (for ΛCDM) or 7 (for wCDM) cosmological parameters including the neutrino mass density and including the 457 × 457 element analytic covariance matrix. We find consistent cosmological results from these three two-point functions, and from their combination obtain S8 ≡ σ8(Ωm/0.3)0.5 = 0.783+0.021 −0.025 and Ωm = 0.264+0.032 −0.019 for ΛCDM; for wCDM, we find S8 = 0.794+0.029 −0.027, Ωm = 0.279+0.043 −0.022, and w = −0.80+0.20 −0.22 at 68% CL. The precision of these DES Y1 results rivals that from the Planck cosmic microwave background measurements, allowing a comparison of structure in the very early and late Universe on equal terms. Although the DES Y1 best-fit values for S8 and Ωm are lower than the central values from Planck for both ΛCDM and wCDM, the Bayes factor indicates that the DES Y1 and Planck data sets are consistent with each other in the context of ΛCDM. Combining DES Y1 with Planck, Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation measurements from SDSS, 6dF, and BOSS, and type Ia supernovae from the Joint Lightcurve Analysis (JLA) dataset, we derive very tight constraints on cosmological parameters: S8 = 0.799+0.014 −0.009 and Ωm = 0.301+0.006 −0.008 in ΛCDM, and w = −1.00+0.04 −0.05 in wCDM. Upcoming DES analyses will provide more stringent tests of the ΛCDM model and extensions such as a time-varying equation of state of dark energy or modified gravity.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Dark Energy Survey year 1 results: Cosmological constraints from galaxy clustering and weak lensing |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.98.043526 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.043526 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| 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 UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1571427 |
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