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Precise cosmological inference from next-generation weak lensing surveys requires extracting non-Gaussian information beyond standard two-point statistics. We present a hybrid machine-learning (ML) framework that integrates field-level…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Jiacheng Ding , Chen Su , Ji Yao , Le Zhang , Huanyuan Shan

Measuring weak lensing cosmic magnification signal is very challenging due to the overwhelming intrinsic clustering in the observed galaxy distribution. In this paper, we modify the Internal Linear Combination (ILC) method to reconstruct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-13 Shutong Hou , Yu Yu , Pengjie Zhang

Owing to their more extensive sky coverage and tighter control on systematic errors, future deep weak lensing surveys should provide a better statistical picture of the dark matter clustering beyond the level of the power spectrum. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Dipak Munshi , Joseph Smidt , Alan Heavens , Peter Coles , Asantha Cooray

We examine cosmological constraints from high precision weak lensing surveys including super-sample covariance (SSC) due to the finite survey volume. Specifically, we focus on the contribution of {\it beat coupling} in the intrinsic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-04 Saeed Ansarifard , S. M. S. Movahed

Correlations of galaxy ellipticities with large-scale structure, due to galactic tidal interactions, provide a potentially significant contaminant to measurements of cosmic shear. However, these intrinsic alignments are still poorly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-21 Patricia Larsen , Anthony Challinor

We present measurements of weak gravitational lensing cosmic shear two-point statistics using Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data. We demonstrate that our results are robust to the choice of shear measurement pipeline, either ngmix…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-28 M. R. Becker , M. A. Troxel , N. MacCrann , E. Krause , T. F. Eifler , O. Friedrich , A. Nicola , A. Refregier , A. Amara , D. Bacon , G. M. Bernstein , C. Bonnett , S. L. Bridle , M. T. Busha , C. Chang , S. Dodelson , B. Erickson , A. E. Evrard , J. Frieman , E. Gaztanaga , D. Gruen , W. Hartley , B. Jain , M. Jarvis , T. Kacprzak , D. Kirk , A. Kravtsov , B. Leistedt , E. S. Rykoff , C. Sabiu , C. Sanchez , H. Seo , E. Sheldon , R. H. Wechsler , J. Zuntz , T. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , R. Armstrong , M. Banerji , A. H. Bauer , A. Benoit-Levy , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , D. Capozzi , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , A. Fausti Neto , E. Fernandez , D. A. Finley , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , D. W. Gerdes , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , P. Martini , P. Melchior , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , R. Ogando , A. A. Plazas , K. Reil , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , D. Thomas , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , The DES Collaboration

Intrinsic alignments (IA) of galaxies have been recognized as one of the most serious contaminants to weak lensing. These systematics need to be isolated and mitigated in order for ongoing and future lensing surveys to reach their full…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 Ji Yao , Mustapha Ishak , Weikang Lin , M. A. Troxel

We have developed a new technique called Direct Shear Mapping (DSM) to measure gravitational lensing shear directly from observations of a single background source. The technique assumes the velocity map of an un-lensed, stably-rotating…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-26 Catherine O. de Burgh-Day , Edward N. Taylor , Rachel L. Webster , Andrew M. Hopkins

Intrinsic alignment (IA) of galaxies is a challenging source of contamination in the Cosmic shear (GG) signals. The galaxy intrinsic ellipticity-gravitational shear (IG) correlation is generally the most dominant component of such…

We re-examine a genuine power of weak lensing bispectrum tomography for constraining cosmological parameters, when combined with the power spectrum tomography, based on the Fisher information matrix formalism. To account for the full…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-21 Issha Kayo , Masahiro Takada

We investigate whether a Gaussian likelihood, as routinely assumed in the analysis of cosmological data, is supported by simulated survey data. We define test statistics, based on a novel method that first destroys Gaussian correlations in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 Elena Sellentin , Alan F. Heavens

Analytical expressions for covariances of weak lensing statistics related to the aperture mass $\Map$ are derived for realistic survey geometries such as SNAP for a range of smoothing angles and redshift bins. We incorporate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dipak Munshi , Patrick Valageas

We present a new method for measuring the scale dependence of the intrinsic alignment (IA) contamination to the galaxy-galaxy lensing signal, which takes advantage of multiple shear estimation methods applied to the same source galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-01 C. Danielle Leonard , Rachel Mandelbaum

Galaxy redshift surveys are subject to incompleteness and inhomogeneous sampling due to the various constraints inherent to spectroscopic observations. This can introduce systematic errors on the summary statistics of interest, which need…

The combination of two- and three-point clustering statistics of galaxies and the underlying matter distribution has the potential to break degeneracies between cosmological parameters and nuisance parameters and can lead to significantly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Oliver Leicht , Tobias Baldauf , James Fergusson , Paul Shellard

Cross-correlations between the galaxy number density in a lensing source sample and that in an overlapping spectroscopic sample can in principle be used to calibrate the lensing source redshift distribution. In this paper, we study in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Roland de Putter , Olivier Doré , Sudeep Das

Cosmic shear data contains a large amount of cosmological information encapsulated in the non-Gaussian features of the weak lensing mass maps. This information can be extracted using non-Gaussian statistics. We compare the constraining…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Dominik Zürcher , Janis Fluri , Raphael Sgier , Tomasz Kacprzak , Alexandre Refregier

We present a cosmological analysis of the third-order aperture mass statistic using Dark Energy Survey Year 3 (DES Y3) data. We perform a complete tomographic measurement of the three-point correlation function of the Y3 weak lensing shape…

With increasingly large data sets, weak lensing measurements are able to measure cosmological parameters with ever greater precision. However this increased accuracy also places greater demands on the statistical tools used to extract the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Pires , J. -L. Starck , A. Amara , R. Teyssier , A. Refregier , J. Fadili