Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Magnification-Temperature Correlation: the Dark Side of ISW Measurements   Integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) measurements, which involve cross-correlating
the CMB with the foreground large-scale structure (e.g. galaxies/quasars), have
proven to be an interesting probe of dark energy. We show that magnification
bias, which is the inevitable modulation of the foreground number counts by
gravitational lensing, alters both the shape and amplitude of the observed ISW
signal. This is true especially at high redshifts because (1) the intrinsic
galaxy-temperature signal diminishes greatly back in the matter dominated era,
(2) the lensing efficiency increases with redshift and (3) the number count
slope generally steepens with redshift in a magnitude limited sample. At z >~
2, the magnification-temperature correlation dominates over the intrinsic
galaxy-temperature correlation and causes the observed ISW signal to increase
with z, despite dark energy subdominance -- a result of the fact that
magnification probes structures between the observer and the sources. Ignoring
magnification bias can then lead to erroneous conclusions about dark energy.
While the lensing modulation opens up an interesting high z window for ISW
measurements, high z measurements are not expected to add much new information
to low z ones if dark energy is the cosmological constant. This is because
lensing introduces significant covariance across redshifts. The most compelling
reason to pursue high z ISW measurements is to look for a potential surprise
such as early dark energy domination or the signature of modified gravity. We
conclude with a discussion of existing measurements, the highest z of which is
at the margin of being sensitive to magnification bias. We also develop a
formalism which might be of general interest: to predict biases in estimating
parameters when certain physical effects are ignored in interpreting data.

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The categories of this paper are: nucl-th
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The categories of this paper are: q-bio
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The categories of this paper are: chem-ph
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The categories of this paper are: mtrl-th
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The categories of this paper are: eess
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The categories of this paper are: patt-sol
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The categories of this paper are: hep-lat
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The categories of this paper are: q-alg
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The categories of this paper are: ao-sci
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The categories of this paper are: funct-an
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The categories of this paper are: adap-org
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The categories of this paper are: bayes-an
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The categories of this paper are: dg-ga
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The categories of this paper are: solv-int
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The categories of this paper are: quant-ph