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x-cut Cosmic Shear: Optimally Removing Sensitivity to Baryonic and Nonlinear Physics with an Application to the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Shear Data

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arxiv 2007.00675 v2 pith:OR4P2IGO submitted 2020-07-01 astro-ph.CO

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We present a new method, called $x$-cut cosmic shear, which optimally removes sensitivity to poorly modeled scales from the two-point cosmic shear signal. We show that the $x$-cut cosmic shear covariance matrix can be computed from the correlation function covariance matrix in a few minutes, enabling a likelihood analysis at virtually no additional computational cost. Further we show how to generalize $x$-cut cosmic shear to galaxy-galaxy lensing. Performing an $x$-cut cosmic shear analysis of the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 (DESY1) shear data, we reduce the error on $S_8= \sigma_8 (\Omega_m / 0.3) ^ {0.5}$ by $32 \%$ relative to a correlation function analysis with the same priors and angular scale cut criterion, while showing our constraints are robust to different baryonic feedback models. Largely driven by information at small angular scales, our result, $S_8= 0.734 \pm 0.026$, yields a $2.6 \sigma$ tension with the Planck Legacy analysis of the cosmic microwave background. As well as alleviating baryonic modelling uncertainties, our method can be used to optimally constrain a large number of theories of modified gravity where computational limitations make it infeasible to model the power spectrum down to extremely small scales. The key parts of our code are made publicly available.

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    astro-ph.CO 2026-07 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

    BNT k-cuts on KiDS-Legacy give S8=0.798±0.045 (theory covariance) with no nonlinear bias, while observed-data covariance produces a mild low-k preference for lower S8.

  2. Cosmic shear nulling as a geometrical cosmological probe: Methodology and sensitivity to cosmological parameters and systematics

    astro-ph.CO 2025-02 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    A null test of BNT-transformed cosmic shear cross-spectra can constrain Omega_m and w0 geometrically, but requires photometric redshifts known to about 10^-3 and is subdominant to standard 3x2pt analysis.

  3. Mitigating Nonlinear Systematics in Weak Lensing Surveys: The Bernardeau-Nishimichi-Taruya Approach

    astro-ph.CO 2024-12 conditional novelty 5.0 of 10

    The BNT transform of cosmic shear data makes ℓ-space cuts behave like k-space cuts, reducing nonlinear scale leakage and preserving unbiased S8 constraints in Euclid-like forecasts.

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