Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-2021
Abstract
We present the v1.0 release of CLMM, an open source PYTHON library for the estimation of the weak lensing masses of clusters of galaxies. CLMM is designed as a stand-alone toolkit of building blocks to enable end-to-end analysis pipeline validation for upcoming cluster cosmology analyses such as the ones that will be performed by the Vera C. Rubin Legacy Survey of Space and Time-Dark Energy Science Collaboration (LSST-DESC). Its purpose is to serve as a flexible, easy-to-install, and easy-to-use interface for both weak lensing simulators and observers and can be applied to real and mock data to study the systematics affecting weak lensing mass reconstruction. At the core of CLMM are routines to model the weak lensing shear signal given the underlying mass distribution of galaxy clusters and a set of data operations to prepare the corresponding data vectors. The theoretical predictions rely on existing software, used as backends in the code, that have been thoroughly tested and cross-checked. Combined theoretical predictions and data can be used to constrain the mass distribution of galaxy clusters as demonstrated in a suite of example Jupyter Notebooks shipped with the software and also available in the extensive online documentation.
Copyright Statement
This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2021 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2764
Publication Information
Aguena, M.; Avestruz, C.; Combet, C.; Fu, S.; Herbonnet, R.; Malz, A.I.; . . . and The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration. (2021). "CLMM: A LSST-DESC Cluster Weak Lensing Mass Modeling Library for Cosmology". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508(4), 6092-6110. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2764
Comments
For a complete list of authors, please see the article.