Weak Lensing Skew-Spectrum
arXiv:2006.12832 · doi:10.1093/mnras/staa2769
Abstract
We introduce the skew-spectrum statistic for weak lensing convergence maps and test it against state-of-the-art high-resolution all-sky numerical simulations. We perform the analysis as a function of source redshift and smoothing angular scale for individual tomographic bins. We also analyse the cross-correlation between different tomographic bins. We compare the numerical results to fitting-functions used to model the bispectrum of the underlying density field as a function of redshift and scale. We derive a closed form expression for the skew-spectrum for gravity-induced secondary non-Gaussianity. We also compute the skew-spectrum for the projected inferred from Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) studies. As opposed to the low redshift case we find the post-Born corrections to be important in the modelling of the skew-spectrum for such studies. We show how the presence of a mask and noise can be incorporated in the estimation of a skew-spectrum.
arXiv comment16 pages, 11 figures
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