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Constraining neutrino mass with the tomographic weak lensing bispectrum

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We explore the effect of massive neutrinos on the weak lensing shear bispectrum using the Cosmological Massive Neutrino Simulations. We find that the primary effect of massive neutrinos is to… Click to show full abstract

We explore the effect of massive neutrinos on the weak lensing shear bispectrum using the Cosmological Massive Neutrino Simulations. We find that the primary effect of massive neutrinos is to suppress the amplitude of the bispectrum with limited effect on the bispectrum shape. The suppression of the bispectrum amplitude is a factor of two greater than the suppression of the small scale power-spectrum. For an LSST-like weak lensing survey that observes half of the sky with five tomographic redshift bins, we explore the constraining power of the bispectrum on three cosmological parameters: the sum of the neutrino mass $\sum m_\nu$, the matter density $\Omega_m$ and the amplitude of primordial fluctuations $A_s$. Bispectrum measurements alone provide similar constraints to the power spectrum measurements and combining the two probes leads to significant improvements than using the latter alone. We find that the joint constraints tighten the power spectrum $95\%$ constraints by $\sim 32\%$ for $\sum m_\nu$, $13\%$ for $\Omega_m$ and $57\%$ for $A_s$ .

Keywords: weak lensing; bispectrum; neutrino mass; power spectrum

Journal Title: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Year Published: 2019

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