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Cosmic shear with small scales: DES-Y3, KiDS-1000 and HSC-DR1

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We present a cosmological analysis of the combination of the DES-Y3, KiDS-1000 and HSC-DR1 weak lensing samples under a joint harmonic-space pipeline making use of angular scales down to $\ell_{\max}=4500$, corresponding to significantly smaller scales ($\delta\theta \sim 2.4$) than those commonly used in cosmological weak lensing studies. We are able to do so by accurately modelling non-linearities and the impact of baryonic effects using Baccoemu. We find $S_8 \equiv \sigma_8 \sqrt{\Omega_m/0.3} = 0.795^{+0.015}{-0.017}$, in relatively good agreement with CMB constraints from Planck (less than $\sim 1.8\sigma$ tension), although we obtain a low value of $\Omega_m = 0.212^{+0.017}{-0.032}$, in tension with Planck at the $\sim 3\sigma$ level. We show that this can be recast as an $H_0$ tension if one parametrises the amplitude of fluctuations and matter abundance in terms of variables without hidden dependence on $H_0$. Furthermore, we find that this tension reduces significantly after including a prior on the distance-redshift relationship from BAO data, without worsening the fit. In terms of baryonic effects, we show that failing to model and marginalise over them on scales $\ell \lesssim 2000$ does not significantly affect the posterior constraints for DES-Y3 and KiDS-1000, but has a mild effect on deeper samples, such as HSC-DR1. This is in agreement with our ability to only mildly constrain the parameters of the Baryon Correction Model with these data.

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10.1088/1475-7516/2024/08/024

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Institution:
University of Oxford
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MPLS
Department:
Physics
Sub department:
Astrophysics
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Author
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0000-0001-6394-7494
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Physics
Sub department:
Astrophysics
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Author
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Physics
Sub department:
Astrophysics
Oxford college:
Christ Church
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Author
ORCID:
0000-0002-4598-9719



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IOP Publishing
Journal:
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics More from this journal
Volume:
2024
Issue:
08
Article number:
24
Publication date:
2024-08-13
Acceptance date:
2024-07-25
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1475-7516


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2023231
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2025-05-07
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