Astronomy and Astrophysics Seminars

Dark Energy Survey: Dark matter and Baryons

by Dr. Vinu Vikraman (Argonne National Laboratory, USA.)

Tuesday, September 20, 2016 from to (Asia/Kolkata)
at TIFR ( AG 66 )
Description

	 Dark Energy Survey (DES) is one of the largest cosmological surveys currently on the sky. I will present some of the early science results from the  weak lensing (WL) of DES Science Verification (SV) data. I will describe the measurements and testing of shears from SV data and present the selection of  the foreground galaxy sample. I will talk about the indirect detection of dark matter which will be measured using the mass map generated from the WL shear. Quantitatively, the correlation between the dark matter and the foreground galaxies and clusters matches with the semi-analytical simulations. I use the SDSS clusters and groups with Planck's Sunyaev–Zel'dovich map to constrain the pressure profiles. I have been able to constrain the pressure profile in the halos apart from the large point spread function of Planck. Using a similar analytical pressure profile, I will show some of the initial physical parameters of the pressure profile from the missing baryon signal which use the DES WL and Planck Sunyaev–Zel'dovich maps. In the latter years of DES, I expect to improve the constraints of pressure profiles from the DES groups and clusters. In the last part of my talk I will briefly describe the measurement of galaxy morphological parameters from HST and SDSS.