Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Weak Lensing Mass Maps with a Sparsity Prior. I. Cluster Detection

TL;DR

This paper introduces a sparsity-based 3D mass map reconstruction method from weak lensing data, improving cluster detection and redshift estimation accuracy in photometric surveys.

Contribution

The novel adaptive LASSO approach effectively reduces line-of-sight smearing and enables direct 3D cluster detection with accurate redshift estimates.

Findings

Detects clusters with masses down to 10^{14} M_sun at various redshifts

Redshift estimates are systematically biased by ~0.03 at low z

Redshift estimation standard deviation is 0.092

Abstract

We propose a novel method to reconstruct high-resolution three-dimensional mass maps using data from photometric weak-lensing surveys. We apply an adaptive LASSO algorithm to perform a sparsity-based reconstruction on the assumption that the underlying cosmic density field is represented by a sum of Navarro-Frenk-White halos. We generate realistic mock galaxy shape catalogues by considering the shear distortions from isolated halos for the configurations matched to Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey with its photometric redshift estimates. We show that the adaptive method significantly reduces line-of-sight smearing that is caused by the correlation between the lensing kernels at different redshifts. Lensing clusters with lower mass limits of $10^{14.0} h^{-1}M_{\odot}$, $10^{14.7} h^{-1}M_{\odot}$, $10^{15.0} h^{-1}M_{\odot}$ can be detected with 1.5-$\sigma$ confidence at the low ($z<0.3$), median ($0.3\leq z< 0.6$) and high ($0.6\leq z< 0.85$) redshifts, respectively, with an average false detection rate of 0.022 deg$^{-2}$. The estimated redshifts of the detected clusters are systematically lower than the true values by $\Delta z \sim 0.03$ for halos at $z\leq 0.4$, but the relative redshift bias is below $0.5\%$ for clusters at $0.4<z\leq 0.85$. The standard deviation of the redshift estimation is $0.092$. Our method enables direct three-dimensional cluster detection with accurate redshift estimates.