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Topological Defects in Cosmic Shear

  • Jiachen Bai
  • Benjamin Giblin
  • Andy Taylor
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Abstract

In this work, we present a novel approach for extracting cosmological information from cosmic shear maps based on topological defects in the shear orientation field. These defects are defined purely by the phase structure of the shear field and are therefore complementary to conventional weak lensing statistics that primarily probe amplitude information. We characterise their statistical properties, including number densities, spatial clustering, and the convergence distribution at defect locations, and demonstrate with Fisher analyses under idealised and realistic survey conditions that topological defect statistics provide a valuable and complementary source of cosmological information. With Euclid-like simulated data, the inclusion of defect statistics leads to constraints on Ωm and σ8 that are up to 3.9 times tighter than those obtained from the convergence two-point correlation function alone.

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@misc{bai2026topological,
  title = {{Topological Defects in Cosmic Shear}},
  author = {Jiachen Bai and Benjamin Giblin and Andy Taylor},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.23401},
  eprint = {2610.23401},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.23401},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
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TY  - UNPB
TI  - Topological Defects in Cosmic Shear
AU  - Jiachen Bai
AU  - Benjamin Giblin
AU  - Andy Taylor
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/16
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.23401
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.23401
AB  - In this work, we present a novel approach for extracting cosmological information from cosmic shear maps based on topological defects in the shear orientation field. These defects are defined purely by the phase structure of the shear field and are therefore complementary to conventional weak lensing statistics that primarily probe amplitude information. We characterise their statistical properties, including number densities, spatial clustering, and the convergence distribution at defect locations, and demonstrate with Fisher analyses under idealised and realistic survey conditions that topological defect statistics provide a valuable and complementary source of cosmological information. With Euclid-like simulated data, the inclusion of defect statistics leads to constraints on Ω_m and σ_8 that are up to 3.9 times tighter than those obtained from the convergence two-point correlation function alone.
ER  -