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IMPACT OF ATMOSPHERIC CHROMATIC EFFECTS ON WEAK LENSING MEASUREMENTS

  • Authors: Joshua E. Meyers, and Patricia R. Burchat

2015 The Astrophysical Journal 807 182.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 8.

Shear calibration parameters due to differential chromatic refraction as a function of galaxy redshift, predicted analytically (solid black curve) and with a ring-test (colored symbols). Chromatic seeing is not implemented here. The filter is the LSST r-band, and the zenith angle is 45°. The predictions are based on a G5V stellar SED and an Sa galactic SED. The galaxy has intrinsic ellipticity ﹩| {{\boldsymbol{\epsilon }}}^{(i)}| =0.3﹩ and second-moment squared radius ﹩{r}_{\mathrm{gal}}^{2}={(0.3\mathrm{arcsec})}^{2}﹩. The PSF has second-moment squared radius ﹩{r}_{\mathrm{PSF}}^{2}={(0.42\mathrm{arcsec})}^{2}﹩ measured at the filter effective wavelength. The analytic prediction (solid curves) depends on the galaxy second-moment squared radius, but is otherwise independent of the profiles of the PSF and galaxy. +'s indicate the components of m and c oriented along and perpendicular to the zenith direction, and ×’s indicate the components oriented 45° to the zenith direction. The different colored plotting symbols indicate different assumed profiles for the galaxy and for the fixed-wavelength PSF, with r2 fixed for both the galaxy and the PSF in all cases. The blue symbols lie directly under the magenta symbols (and are therefore not visible) since the ring-test predictions do not depend on the PSF profile when ﹩{r}_{\mathrm{PSF}}^{2}﹩ is fixed.

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