First application of weak lensing peak steepness statistics to HSC Y1 data: effectively probing halo density profiles
Abstract
As a new probe, the weak lensing (WL) peak steepness statistics is sensitive to the density profile of halos that encodes important information of baryonic feedback and dark matter properties, leading to a promising means to statistically constrain these effects using WL data. In this article, we present its first application to HSC Y1 data to demonstrate the great potential of this new statistics. Within the phenomenological framework of HMcode2016 that attributes the baryonic feedback solely to the reduction of the halo concentration parameter and focusing on high peaks originated dominantly from massive clusters, our analyses by combining WL peak height and steepness statistics resulted in S8=0.76+0.08−0.07 with the maximum-a-posteriori (MAP) of $0.79$ and low concentrations. Taking the form of the concentration-mass relation as c(M,z)=A(1+zf)/(1+z) with zf being the formation redshift of halos with mass M at redshift z, we obtain A=1.93+1.33−1.16 (MAP=$1.70$) in comparison with A=3.34+1.52−1.74 (MAP=3.31) from dark matter only simulated mocks. The result tends to support phenomenologically strong baryonic feedback effects at cluster scales.
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BibTeX
@misc{li2026first,
title = {{First application of weak lensing peak steepness statistics to HSC Y1 data: effectively probing halo density profiles}},
author = {Ziwei Li and Xiangkun Liu and Tianyu Zhang and An Zhao and Chuzhong Pan and Shuo Yuan and Qiao Wang and Zuhui Fan},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = aug,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2608.24591},
eprint = {2608.24591},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.24591},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - First application of weak lensing peak steepness statistics to HSC Y1 data: effectively probing halo density profiles
AU - Ziwei Li
AU - Xiangkun Liu
AU - Tianyu Zhang
AU - An Zhao
AU - Chuzhong Pan
AU - Shuo Yuan
AU - Qiao Wang
AU - Zuhui Fan
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/08/25
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2608.24591
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.24591
AB - As a new probe, the weak lensing (WL) peak steepness statistics is sensitive to the density profile of halos that encodes important information of baryonic feedback and dark matter properties, leading to a promising means to statistically constrain these effects using WL data. In this article, we present its first application to HSC Y1 data to demonstrate the great potential of this new statistics. Within the phenomenological framework of HMcode2016 that attributes the baryonic feedback solely to the reduction of the halo concentration parameter and focusing on high peaks originated dominantly from massive clusters, our analyses by combining WL peak height and steepness statistics resulted in S_8=0.76^+0.08_−0.07 with the maximum-a-posteriori (MAP) of $0.79$ and low concentrations. Taking the form of the concentration-mass relation as c(M,z)=A(1+z_f)/(1+z) with z_f being the formation redshift of halos with mass M at redshift z, we obtain A=1.93^+1.33_−1.16 (MAP=$1.70$) in comparison with A=3.34^+1.52_−1.74 (MAP=3.31) from dark matter only simulated mocks. The result tends to support phenomenologically strong baryonic feedback effects at cluster scales.
ER -