18–24 Jun 2017
UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
US/Pacific timezone

Galaxy-galaxy lensing for cosmology in the Dark Energy Survey

20 Jun 2017, 11:50
20m
Pacific Ballroom AB (UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA)

Pacific Ballroom AB

UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA

Working Group Sessions Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology Working Group Working Group: Astroparticle physics and cosmology

Speaker

Dr Juliana Kwan (University of Tokyo)

Description

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is an ongoing photometric survey that will cover 5000 sq deg of the Southern sky over five years with the aim of determining the origin of cosmic acceleration. Two of the key probes involved in achieving this goal are the large scale clustering of galaxies and weak gravitational lensing, which are more powerful when taken in combination, since the dependence on galaxy bias can be broken in both probes. Using the red galaxies identified in the Science Verification area in DES, we have measured the angular clustering and tangential shear from galaxy-galaxy lensing using red sequence selected galaxies. In this talk, I will present constraints on the dark energy equation of state and the amplitude of clustering from a joint analysis of these probes.

Primary author

Dr Juliana Kwan (University of Tokyo)

Presentation materials