Large Imaging Surveys For Cosmology: Cosmic Magnification And Photometric Calibration

• Main Author: Boucaud, Alexandre
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2013
• Subjects: cosmology; dark energy; gravitational lensing; cosmic magnification; photometric calibration; LSST; Pacific; South Pole; Blanchard; Sion; Myers; Morrison; Sutherland; Crawford; Peacock; Randall; McCarthy; Rowe; Wilkinson; Hubble; Newell; Avery; Hicks; Gunn; Navarro; Weller; Rubin; Acosta; Dunlop; Aguirre; Dahle; Solheim; Seitz; Barrientos; Kirkby; Bayliss; Edelweiss; Balan; Agnese; South pole
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.48950; https://zenodo.org/record/48950

This work focuses on the use of deep, wide field surveys to extract new cosmo- logical information. Precise photometry plays a large role in this quest, through the determination of photometric redshifts and the propagation of photometric errors into the cosmological results. This is a unifying theme which effectively ties both parts of the thesis together. After a general review of cosmology and the measurements that support the ΛCDM model, and a description of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), the first part of this work deals with the influence of the variation of main atmospheric con- stituents on ground-based photometry, focusing particularly on the LSST site at Cerro Pachón, Chile. We process all recent available data on ozone, water vapor and aerosols to construct a long-term atmospheric simulation and estimate quanti- tatively how the spatial and temporal gradients of these constituents would affect LSST calibration process. The second part of this work starts with a theoretical description of gravitational lensing, concentrating on the weak lensing aspect. After discussing the advantages and difficulties of cosmic shear measurements, we explore the use of cosmic magni- fication, together with the redshift tomography enabled by the LSST, to constrain cosmological models. 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