Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: weak lensing shape catalogues

DES Collaboration; R. C. Nichol; D. Thomas

doi:10.1093/MNRAS/STY2219

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: weak lensing shape catalogues

DES Collaboration, R. C. Nichol, D. Thomas

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We present two galaxy shape catalogues from the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 data set, covering 1500 deg ² with a median redshift of 0.59. The catalogues cover two main fields: Stripe 82, and an area overlapping the South Pole Telescope survey region. We describe our data analysis process and in particular our shape measurement using two independent shear measurement pipelines, METACALIBRATION and IM3SHAPE. The METACALIBRATION catalogue uses a Gaussian model with an innovative internal calibration scheme, and was applied to riz bands, yielding 34.8M objects. The IM3SHAPE catalogue uses amaximum-likelihood bulge/disc model calibrated using simulations, and was applied to r-band data, yielding 21.9M objects. Both catalogues pass a suite of null tests that demonstrate their fitness for use in weak lensing science. We estimate the 1σ uncertainties in multiplicative shear calibration to be 0.013 and 0.025 for the METACALIBRATION and IM3SHAPE catalogues, respectively.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1149-1182
Number of pages	34
Journal	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume	481
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/MNRAS/STY2219
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2018

Keywords

Catalogues
Cosmology: observations
Gravitational lensing: weak
Methods: data analysis
Surveys
Techniques: image processing
RCUK
STFC
AST-1138766
AST-1536171

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Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: weak lensing shape catalogues

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