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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…

We present the results of weak gravitational lensing statistics in four different cosmological $N$-body simulations. The data has been generated using an algorithm for the three-dimensional shear, which makes use of a variable softening…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Andrew J. Barber , Peter A. Thomas , H. M. P. Couchman , C. J. Fluke

We present a joint cosmological analysis of the two-point correlation function and the aperture-mass skewness measured from the Year 3 data of the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-Y3). The aperture-mass skewness is a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Sunao Sugiyama , Rafael C. H. Gomes , Bhuvnesh Jain

Weak gravitational lensing provides a unique method to map directly the dark matter in the Universe. The majority of lensing analyses uses the two-point statistics of the cosmic shear field to constrain the cosmological model yielding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 S. Pires , J. -L. Starck , A. Amara , A. Refregier , R. Teyssier

This work and its companion paper, Amon et al. (2021), present cosmic shear measurements and cosmological constraints from over 100 million source galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 3 data. We constrain the lensing amplitude…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-17 L. F. Secco , S. Samuroff , E. Krause , B. Jain , J. Blazek , M. Raveri , A. Campos , A. Amon , A. Chen , C. Doux , A. Choi , D. Gruen , G. M. Bernstein , C. Chang , J. DeRose , J. Myles , A. Ferté , P. Lemos , D. Huterer , J. Prat , M. A. Troxel , N. MacCrann , A. R. Liddle , T. Kacprzak , X. Fang , C. Sánchez , S. Pandey , S. Dodelson , P. Chintalapati , K. Hoffmann , A. Alarcon , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , E. J. Baxter , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , A. Brandao-Souza , H. Camacho , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , R. Cawthon , J. P. Cordero , M. Crocce , C. Davis , E. Di Valentino , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , T. F. Eifler , M. Elidaiana , F. Elsner , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , P. Fosalba , O. Friedrich , M. Gatti , G. Giannini , R. A. Gruendl , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , H. Huang , E. M. Huff , M. Jarvis , N. Jeffrey , N. Kuropatkin , P. -F. Leget , J. Muir , J. Mccullough , A. Navarro Alsina , Y. Omori , Y. Park , A. Porredon , R. Rollins , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , J. Sanchez , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. S. Sheldon , T. Shin , I. Tutusaus , T. N. Varga , N. Weaverdyck , R. H. Wechsler , B. Yanny , B. Yin , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , S. Bhargava , S. L. Bridle , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , J. Carretero , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , J. De Vicente , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , M. Lima , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , D. Petravick , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , A. K. Romer , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , D. Scolnic , S. Serrano , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To

We present our cosmic shear analysis of GEMS, one of the largest wide-field surveys ever undertaken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Imaged with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), GEMS spans 795 square arcmin in the Chandra Deep Field…

Weak lensing by large-scale structure provides a unique method to directly measure matter fluctuations in the universe, and has recently been detected from the ground. Here, we report the first detection of this `cosmic shear' based on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 J. Rhodes , A. Refregier , E. J. Groth

We present the first cosmic shear measurements obtained from the T0001 release of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey. The data set covers three uncorrelated patches (D1, D3 and D4) of one square degree each observed in u*, g',…

We present a weak lensing analysis of the 3 GHz VLA radio survey of the COSMOS field, which we correlate with overlapping HST-ACS optical observations using both intrinsic galaxy shape and cosmic shear correlation statistics. After…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-27 Tom Hillier , Michael L. Brown , Ian Harrison , Lee Whittaker

We propose to use a simple observable, the fractional area of "hot spots" in weak lensing mass maps which are detected with high significance, to determine background cosmological parameters. Because these high-shear regions are directly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-24 Sheng Wang , Zoltan Haiman , Morgan May , John Kehayias

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

We present the first constraints on cosmology from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), using weak lensing measurements from the preliminary Science Verification (SV) data. We use 139 square degrees of SV data, which is less than 3\% of the full…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-05 The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration , T. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , A. Amara , J. Annis , R. Armstrong , D. Bacon , M. Banerji , A. H. Bauer , E. Baxter , M. R. Becker , A. Benoit-Lévy , R. A. Bernstein , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , J. Blazek , C. Bonnett , S. L. Bridle , D. Brooks , C. Bruderer , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , M. T. Busha , D. Capozzi , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. Chang , J. Clampitt , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , R. Das , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , G. Efstathiou , T. F. Eifler , B. Erickson , J. Estrada , A. E. Evrard , A. Fausti Neto , E. Fernandez , D. A. Finley , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , O. Friedrich , J. Frieman , C. Gangkofner , J. Garcia-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , W. Hartley , M. Hirsch , K. Honscheid , E. M. Huff , B. Jain , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , T. Kacprzak , S. Kent , D. Kirk , E. Krause , A. Kravtsov , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , J. Kwan , O. Lahav , B. Leistedt , T. S. Li , M. Lima , H. Lin , N. MacCrann , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , R. G. McMahon , P. Melchior , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , E. Neilsen , R. C. Nichol , A. Nicola , B. Nord , R. Ogando , A. Palmese , H. V. Peiris , A. A. Plazas , A. Refregier , N. Roe , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , B. Rowe , E. S. Rykoff , C. Sabiu , I. Sadeh , M. Sako , S. Samuroff , C. Sánchez , E. Sanchez , H. Seo , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , D. Thomas , M. A. Troxel , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , R. H. Wechsler , J. Weller , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz

In the theory of structure formation, galaxies are biased tracers of the underlying matter density field. The statistical relation between galaxy and matter density field is commonly referred as galaxy bias. In this paper, we test the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Eric Jullo , Jason Rhodes , Alina Kiessling , James E. Taylor , Richard Massey , Joel Berge , Carlo Schimd , Jean-Paul Kneib , Nick Scoville

Weak gravitational lensing is becoming a mature technique for constraining cosmological parameters, and future surveys will be able to constrain the dark energy equation of state $w$. When analyzing galaxy surveys, redshift information has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-07 Andrea Petri , Morgan May , Zoltán Haiman

We present the first measurement of weak lensing by large-scale structure on 1-4 degree scales based on the FIRST Radio Survey, a quarter-sky, 20-cm survey produced with the NRAO Very Large Array (VLA). The large angular scales provide an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tzu-Ching Chang , Alexandre Refregier , David J. Helfand

We present cosmological constraints from 2D weak gravitational lensing by the large-scale structure in the Canada-France Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS) which spans 154 square degrees in five optical bands. Using accurate…

We present a cosmic shear study from the Deep Lens Survey (DLS), a deep BVRz multi-band imaging survey of five 4 sq. degree fields with two National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) 4-meter telescopes at Kitt Peak and Cerro Tololo. For…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. James Jee , J. Anthony Tyson , Michael D. Schneider , David Wittman , Samuel Schmidt , Stefan Hilbert

Weak gravitational lensing provides a unique method to directly map the dark matter in the universe and measure cosmological parameters. Current weak lensing surveys are limited by the atmospheric seeing from the ground and by the small…