PT Journal
AU Das, S
   de Putter, R
   Linder, EV
   Nakajima, R
TI Weak lensing cosmology beyond Lambda CDM
SO Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
JI J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys.
PY 2012
BP 23pp
VL 11
IS 11
DI 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/11/011
LA English
DE dark energy experiments; cosmological parameters from LSS; weak gravitational lensing; dark energy theory
AB Weak gravitational lensing is one of the key probes of the cosmological model, dark energy, and dark matter, providing insight into both the cosmic expansion history and large scale structure growth history. Taking into account a broad spectrum of physics affecting growth – dynamical dark energy, extended gravity, neutrino masses, and spatial curvature – we analyze the cosmological constraints. Similarly we consider the effects of a range of systematic uncertainties, in shear measurement, photometric redshifts, intrinsic alignments, and the nonlinear power spectrum, on cosmological parameter extraction. We also investigate, and provide fitting formulas tor, the influence of survey parameters such as redshift depth, galaxy number densities, and sky area on the cosmological constraints in the beyond-ACDM parameter space. Finally, we examine the robustness of results for different fiducial cosmologies.
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