Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: ABSTRACT Weak lensing will play an important role in future cosmological surveys, including e.g. Euclid and SKA. Sufficiently accurate theoretical predictions are important for correctly interpreting these surveys and hence for extracting correct cosmological parameter estimations. We quantify for the first time in a relativistic setting how many post-Born and lens–lens coupling corrections are required for sub-per cent accuracy of the theoretical weak lensing convergence for $z$ ≤ 2 (the primary weak lensing range for Euclid and SKA). We do this by ray tracing through a fully relativistic exact solution of the Einstein field equations, which consists of randomly packed mass-compensated underdensities of realistic amplitudes. We find that including lens–lens coupling terms and post-Born corrections up to second and third order respectively is sufficient for sub-per cent accuracy of the convergence along $94{{\ \rm per\ cent}}$ of the studied light rays. We also find that a significant percentage of the studied rays have post-Born corrections of size over $10{{\ \rm per\ cent}}$ of the usual gravitational convergence, κ(1), and several rays even have post-Born corrections several times the size of κ(1) at $z$ = 2.
Authors: Sofie Marie Koksbang, Chris Clarkson
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2902356151