Imperial College London
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Professor Andrew H Jaffe

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

Professor of Astrophysics and Cosmology
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 7526a.jaffe Website

 
 
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Assistant

 

Miss Louise Hayward +44 (0)20 7594 7679

 
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Location

 

1018BBlackett LaboratorySouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Alsing:2016:mnras/stw3161,
author = {Alsing, J and Heavens, A and Jaffe, AH},
doi = {mnras/stw3161},
journal = {MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY},
pages = {3272--3292},
title = {Cosmological parameters, shear maps and power spectra from CFHTLenS using Bayesian hierarchical inference},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw3161},
volume = {466},
year = {2016}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - We apply two Bayesian hierarchical inference schemes to infer shear power spectra, shear maps and cosmological parameters from the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope (CFHTLenS) weak lensing survey – the first application of this method to data. In the first approach, we sample the joint posterior distribution of the shear maps and power spectra by Gibbs sampling, with minimal model assumptions. In the second approach, we sample the joint posterior of the shear maps and cosmological parameters, providing a new, accurate and principled approach to cosmological parameter inference from cosmic shear data. As a first demonstration on data, we perform a two-bin tomographic analysis to constrain cosmological parameters and investigate the possibility of photometric redshift bias in the CFHTLenS data. Under the baseline ΛCDM (Λ cold dark matter) model, we constrain S8=σ8(Ωm/0.3)0.5=0.67+0.03−0.03S8=σ8(Ωm/0.3)0.5=0.67−0.03+0.03  (68 per cent), consistent with previous CFHTLenS analyses but in tension with Planck. Adding neutrino mass as a free parameter, we are able to constrain ∑mν < 4.6 eV (95 per cent) using CFHTLenS data alone. Including a linear redshift-dependent photo-z bias Δz = p2(z − p1), we find p1=−0.25+0.53−0.60p1=−0.25−0.60+0.53  and p2=−0.15+0.17−0.15p2=−0.15−0.15+0.17 , and tension with Planck is only alleviated under very conservative prior assumptions. Neither the non-minimal neutrino mass nor photo-z bias models are significantly preferred by the CFHTLenS (two-bin tomography) data.
AU  - Alsing,J
AU  - Heavens,A
AU  - Jaffe,AH
DO  - mnras/stw3161
EP  - 3292
PY  - 2016///
SN  - 0035-8711
SP  - 3272
TI  - Cosmological parameters, shear maps and power spectra from CFHTLenS using Bayesian hierarchical inference
T2  - MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw3161
UR  - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000398418600053&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/47998
VL  - 466
ER  -
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