Euclid preparation. LensMC, weak lensing cosmic shear measurement with forward modelling and Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling

Euclid Collaboration, G. Congedo, L. Miller, A. N. Taylor, N. Cross, C. A. J. Duncan, T. Kitching, N. Martinet, E. A. Valentijn

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Abstract

LensMC is a weak lensing shear measurement method developed for Euclid and Stage-IV surveys. It is based on forward modelling to deal with convolution by a point spread function with comparable size to many galaxies; sampling the posterior distribution of galaxy parameters via Markov Chain Monte Carlo; and marginalisation over nuisance parameters for each of the 1.5 billion galaxies observed by Euclid. The scientific performance is quantified through high-fidelity images based on the Euclid Flagship simulations and emulation of the Euclid VIS images; realistic clustering with a mean surface number density of 250 arcmin$^{-2}$ ($I_{\rm E}
Original languageEnglish
PublisherarXiv
Number of pages29
DOIs
Publication statusSubmitted - 1-May-2024

Keywords

  • Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
  • Physics - Data Analysis
  • Statistics and Probability
  • Statistics - Computation

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