Propagating data-driven galaxy redshift distribution uncertainties in 3×2-pt analyses

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract Uncertainties in the radial distribution of galaxies, $\boldsymbol{n}(\boldsymbol{z})$, are one of the major contributions to the error budget of early Stage-IV galaxy survey analyses of weak gravitational lensing, galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing (3×2-pt). Based on ensembles of simulated $\boldsymbol{n}(\boldsymbol{z})$ including stochastic and systematic variations, we study the impact of four different $\boldsymbol{n}(\boldsymbol{z})$ uncertainty models: shifts, shifts & stretches, Gaussian processes (GP) and principal component analysis (PCA). Due to the high dimensionality of the latter models, we make use of state-of-the-art gradient-based inference methods as well as approximate analytical marginalisation schemes. Our results show that Stage-IV 3×2-pt analyses must go beyond simple shift & stretch models. In particular, we advocate for the adoption of PCA models even in early Stage-IV surveys. Our results show that considering a five-parameters PCA model only degrades the constraint on the S8 parameter by 5 per cent with respect to the case when only a shift and a stretch parameter are included, while incurring half the bias in its constituents parameters, Ωm and σ8. We demonstrate that all models considered can be safely marginalised analytically, with speed-ups of up to a factor of 25 depending on the dimensionality of the model. This will allow Stage-IV analyses to safely include higher-dimensional $\boldsymbol{n}(\boldsymbol{z})$ uncertainty models in their analysis at negligible additional computational cost.
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Authors Jaime Ruiz-Zapatero, Qianjun Hang, Yun-Hao Zhang, B. Joachimi, J. Zuntz, I. Harrison, Carlos Garcia-Garcia, Alex I. Malz, Benjamin Stölzner
Journal monthly notices of the royal astronomical society
Year 2026
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10.1093/mnras/stag1247
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https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stag1247
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