Statistical and Systematic Errors in Measurement of Weak-Lensing Minkowski Functionals: Application to Canada-France-Hawaii Lensing Survey

Abstract

The measurement of cosmic shear using weak gravitational lensing is a challenging task that involves a number of complicated procedures. We study in detail the systematic errors in the measurement of weak lensing Minkowski Functionals (MFs). Specifically, we focus on systematics associated with galaxy shape measurements, photometric redshift errors, and shear calibration correction. We first generate mock weak-lensing catalogs that directly incorporate the actual observational characteristics of the Canada-France-Hawaii Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS). We then perform a Fisher analysis using the large set of mock catalogs for various cosmological models. We find that the statistical error associated with the observational effects degrades the cosmological parameter constraints by a factor of a few. The Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) survey with a sky coverage of ~1400 deg2 will constrain the dark energy equation of the state parameter with an error of Delta w_0 ~ 0.25 by the lensing MFs alone, but biases induced by the systematics can be comparable to the 1-sigma error. We conclude that the lensing MFs are powerful statistics beyond the two-point statistics, only if well-calibrated measurement of both the redshifts and the shapes of source galaxies is performed. Finally, we analyze the CFHTLenS data to explore the ability of the MFs to break degeneracies between a few cosmological parameters. Using a combined analysis of the MFs and the shear correlation function, we derive the matter density Omega_m0= 0.256+0.054-0.046.

32 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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