TY - JOUR
T1 - KiDS+2dFLenS+GAMA: Testing the cosmological model with the EG statistic
AU - Amon, Alexandra
AU - Blake, Chris
AU - Heymans, Catherine
AU - Leonard, C D
AU - Asgari, M
AU - Bilicki, Maciej Iej
AU - Choi, A
AU - Erben, T
AU - Glazebrook, Karl
AU - Harnois-Deraps, Joachim
AU - Hildebrandt, H
AU - Lidman, Christopher
AU - Wolf, Christian
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - We present a new measurement of EG, which combines measurements of weak gravitational lensing, galaxy clustering, and redshift-space distortions. This statistic was proposed as a consistency test of General Relativity (GR) that is insensitive to linear, deterministic galaxy bias, and the matter clustering amplitude. We combine deep imaging data from KiDS with overlapping spectroscopy from 2dFLenS, BOSS DR12, and GAMA and find EG (z=0.267) = 0.43 ± 0.13(GAMA), EG (z=0.305) = 0.27 ± 0.08 (LOWZ+2dFLOZ), and EG (z=0.0554) = 0.26 ± 0.07 (CMASS + 2dFHIZ). We demonstrate that the existing tension in the value of the matter density parameter hinders the robustness of this statistic as solely a test of GR. We find that our EG measurements, as well as existing ones in the literature, favour a lower matter density cosmology than the cosmic microwave background. For a flat ΔCDM Universe, we find Ωm(z = 0) = 0.25 ± 0.03. With this paper, we publicly release the 2dFLenS data set at: http://2dflens.swin.edu.au.
AB - We present a new measurement of EG, which combines measurements of weak gravitational lensing, galaxy clustering, and redshift-space distortions. This statistic was proposed as a consistency test of General Relativity (GR) that is insensitive to linear, deterministic galaxy bias, and the matter clustering amplitude. We combine deep imaging data from KiDS with overlapping spectroscopy from 2dFLenS, BOSS DR12, and GAMA and find EG (z=0.267) = 0.43 ± 0.13(GAMA), EG (z=0.305) = 0.27 ± 0.08 (LOWZ+2dFLOZ), and EG (z=0.0554) = 0.26 ± 0.07 (CMASS + 2dFHIZ). We demonstrate that the existing tension in the value of the matter density parameter hinders the robustness of this statistic as solely a test of GR. We find that our EG measurements, as well as existing ones in the literature, favour a lower matter density cosmology than the cosmic microwave background. For a flat ΔCDM Universe, we find Ωm(z = 0) = 0.25 ± 0.03. With this paper, we publicly release the 2dFLenS data set at: http://2dflens.swin.edu.au.
U2 - 10.1093/mnras/sty1624
DO - 10.1093/mnras/sty1624
M3 - Article
SN - 1365-2966
VL - 479
SP - 3422
EP - 3437
JO - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
JF - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
IS - 3
ER -