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Probing dark energy with lensing magnification in photometric surveys
1Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808 L-210, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA and University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 94551, USA.
Abstract:
I present an estimator for the angular cross correlation of two tracers of the cosmological large-scale structure that utilizes redshift information to isolate separate physical contributions. The estimator is derived by solving the Limber equation for a reweighting of the foreground tracer that nulls either clustering or lensing contributions to the cross correlation function. Applied to future photometric surveys, the estimator can enhance the measurement of gravitational lensing magnification effects to provide a competitive independent constraint on the dark energy equation of state.
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