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We revisit the performance and biases of the two-dimensional approach to galaxy-galaxy lensing. This method exploits the information for the actual positions and ellipticities of source galaxies, rather than using only the ensemble…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-03 Andrej Dvornik , Sebastiaan L. Zoutendijk , Henk Hoekstra , Konrad Kuijken

Since gravitational lensing effects directly probe inhomogeneities of dark matter, lensing-galaxy cross-correlations can provide us important information on the relation between dark matter and galaxy distributions, i.e., the bias. In this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Z. H. Fan

We note that galaxy-galaxy lensing by non-spherical galaxy halos produces a net anti-correlation between the shear of background galaxies and the ellipticity of foreground galaxies. This anti-correlation would contaminate the tomographic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sarah Bridle , Filipe B. Abdalla

Galaxy-galaxy lensing is a powerful probe of the relation between galaxies and dark matter halos, but its theoretical interpretation requires a careful modeling of various contributions, such as the contribution from central and satellite…

In strong gravitational lensing, the multiple images we see correspond to light rays that leave the source in slightly different directions. If the source emission is anisotropic, the images may differ from conventional lensing predictions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Rosalba Perna , Charles R. Keeton

Studies of strong gravitational lensing in current and upcoming wide and deep photometric surveys, and of stellar kinematics from (integral-field) spectroscopy at increasing redshifts, promise to provide valuable constraints on galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Glenn van de Ven , Rachel Mandelbaum , Charles R. Keeton

We rederive the number density of intervening line-of-sight haloes relative to lens subhaloes in galaxy-galaxy strong lensing observations, where these perturbers can generate detectable image fluctuations. Previous studies have calculated…

We present weak lensing constraints on the ellipticity of galaxy-scale matter haloes and the galaxy-halo misalignment. Using data from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS), we measure the weighted-average ratio of…

A tangential distortion of background source galaxies around foreground lens galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field is detected at the 99.3% confidence level. An important element of our analysis is the use of photometric redshifts to determine…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Michael J. Hudson , Stephen D. J. Gwyn , Haakon Dahle , Nick Kaiser

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey will measure spectroscopic redshifts for millions of galaxies across roughly $14,000 \, \mathrm{deg}^2$ of the sky. Cross-correlating targets in the DESI survey with complementary…

We investigate how galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements depend on the knowledge of redshifts for lens and source galaxies. Galaxy-galaxy lensing allows one to study dark matter halos of galaxies statistically using weak gravitational lensing.…

As the first paper in a series on the study of the galaxy-galaxy lensing from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS DR7), we present our image processing pipeline that corrects the systematics primarily introduced by the Point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Wentao Luo , Xiaohu Yang , Jun Zhang , Dylan Tweed , Liping Fu , H. J. Mo , Frank C. van den Bosch , Chenggang Shu , Ran Li , Nan Li , Xiangkun Liu , Chuzhong Pan , Yiran Wang , Mario Radovich

Galaxy-galaxy lensing has emerged as a powerful probe of the dark matter halos of galaxies, but is subject to contamination if intrinsically aligned satellites of the lens galaxy are used as part of the source sample. We present a…

Galaxy-galaxy or galaxy-quasar lensing can provide important information on the mass distribution in the Universe. It consists of correlating the lensing signal (either shear or magnification) of a background galaxy/quasar sample with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-05 R. Ziour , L. Hui

We present results for a galaxy-galaxy lensing study based on imaging data from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey Wide. From a 12 million object multi-colour catalogue for 124 deg^2 of photometric data in the u*g'r'i'z'…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 F. Brimioulle , S. Seitz , M. Lerchster , R. Bender , J. Snigula

We use galaxy-galaxy lensing to study the statistical properties of the dark matter halos of galaxies. Our data is taken from the COMBO-17 survey which has imaged 1 square degree in 17 optical filters giving accurate photometric redshifts…

Flexion is the significant third-order weak gravitational lensing effect responsible for the weakly skewed and arc-like appearance of lensed galaxies. Here we demonstrate how flexion measurements can be used to measure galaxy halo density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. J. Bacon , D. M. Goldberg , B. T. P. Rowe , A. N. Taylor

We use semi-analytic models of galaxy formation combined with high resolution N-body simulations to make predictions for galaxy-dark matter correlations and apply them to galaxy-galaxy lensing. We analyze cross-correlation spectra between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jacek Guzik , Uros Seljak

If it is hypothesised that there is no dark matter then some alternative gravitational theory must take the place of general relativity (GR) on the largest scales. Dynamical measurements can be used to investigate the nature of such a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel J. Mortlock , Edwin L. Turner