[工程科技]Probing dark energy with the shear-ratio geometric test.pdfVIP

A Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 000, 1–30 (2005) Printed 5 February 2008 (MN L T X style file v1.4) E Probing dark energy with the shear-ratio geometric test A.N. Taylor, T.D. Kitching, D.J. Bacon, A.F. Heavens ⋆ SUPA , Institute for Astronomy, School of Physics, University of Edinburgh, Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, U.K. email: ant@roe.ac.uk, tdk@roe.ac.uk, djb@roe.ac.uk, afh@roe.ac.uk 6 0 ABSTRACT 0 We adapt the Jain–Taylor (2003) shear-ratio geometric lensing method to measure the 2 dark energy equation of state, w = pv /ρv and its time derivative from dark matter v haloes in cosmologies with arbitrary spatial curvature. The full shear-ratio covariance o matrix is calculated for lensed sources, including the intervening large-scale structure N and photometric redshift errors as additional sources of noise, and a maximum like- lihood method for applying the test is presented. Decomposing the lensing matter 5 distribution into dark matter haloes we calculate the parameter covariance matrix 1 for an arbitrary experiment. Combining with the expected results from the CMB we 2 design an optimal survey for probing dark energy. This shows that a targeted survey v imaging 60 of the largest clusters in a hemisphere with 5-band optical photometric