Verifications of scaling relations useful for the intrinsic alignment self-calibration

Abstract

The galaxy intrinsic alignment (IA) is a major challenge of weak lensing cosmology. To alleviate this problem, Zhang (2010, MNRAS, 406, L95) proposed a self-calibration method, independent of IA modeling. This proposal relies on several scaling relations between two-point clustering of IA and matter/galaxy fields, which were previously only tested with analytical IA models. In this paper, these relations are tested comprehensively with an $N$-body simulation of $3072^3$ simulation particles and boxsize 600 $h^{-1}\mathrm{Mpc}$. They are verified at the accuracy level of $\mathcal{O}(1)\%$ over angular scales and source redshifts of interest. We further confirm that these scaling relations are generic, insensitive to halo mass, weighting in defining halo ellipticities, photo-$z$ error, and misalignment between galaxy ellipticities and halo ellipticities. We also present and verify three new scaling relations on the B-mode IA. These results consolidate and complete the theory side of the proposed self-calibration technique.

arXiv comment6 pages, 7 figures, published in ApJ

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