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arxiv: 0811.1991 · v2 · pith:3XNOQJTGnew · submitted 2008-11-13 · 🌌 astro-ph

The cosmology dependence of weak lensing cluster counts

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keywords cosmologyclusterlensingmassweakfunctionmainthree-dimensional
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We present the main results of a numerical study of weak lensing cluster counting. We examine the scaling with cosmology of the projected-density-peak mass function. Our main conclusion is that the projected-peak and the three-dimensional mass functions scale with cosmology in an astonishingly close way. This means that, despite being derived from a two-dimensional field, the weak lensing cluster abundance can be used to constrain cosmology in the same way as the three-dimensional mass function probed by other types of surveys.

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