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We explore the cosmological constraints from cosmic shear using a new way of modelling the non-linear matter correlation functions. The new formalism extends the method of Angulo & White (2010), which manipulates outputs of $N$-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Raul E. Angulo , Stefan Hilbert

The ratio of the average tangential shear signal of different weak lensing source populations around the same lens galaxies, also known as a shear ratio, provides an important test of lensing systematics and a potential source of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-01 Ni Emas , Chris Blake , Rossana Ruggeri , Anna Porredon

The combination of galaxy clustering and weak lensing is a powerful probe of the cosmology model. We present a joint analysis of galaxy clustering and weak lensing cosmology using SDSS data as the tracer of dark matter (lens sample) and the…

We present a field-based approach to the analysis of cosmic shear data to infer jointly cosmological parameters and the dark matter distribution. This forward modelling approach samples the cosmological parameters and the initial matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Natalia Porqueres , Alan Heavens , Daniel Mortlock , Guilhem Lavaux

We have analysed ~24 square degrees of R_C-band imaging data from the Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS), and measured the excess correlations between galaxy ellipticities on scales ranging from 1 to 30 arcminutes. We have used data from two…

We present the first measurements of the weak gravitational lensing signal induced by the large scale mass distribution from data obtained as part of the ongoing Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey (CFHTLS). The data used in this…

The results from weak gravitational lensing analyses are subject to a cosmic variance error term that has previously been estimated assuming Gaussian statistics. In this letter we address the issue of estimating cosmic variance errors for…

Cosmic shear statistics, such as the two-point correlation function (2PCF), can be evaluated with the PDF-SYM method instead of the traditional weighted-sum approach. It makes use of the full PDF information of the shear estimators, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-18 Zhenjie Liu , Jun Zhang , Hekun Li , Zhi Shen , Cong Liu

We demonstrate that the aperture mass as a measure for cosmic shear closely approximates (to better than ~5%) the scaled and shifted power spectrum of the projected mass density. This cosmological weak-lensing information can thus be used…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthias Bartelmann , Peter Schneider

Lensing peaks have been proposed as a useful statistic, containing cosmological information from non-Gaussianities that is inaccessible from traditional two-point statistics such as the power spectrum or two-point correlation functions.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-05 Jia Liu , Andrea Petri , Zoltan Haiman , Lam Hui , Jan M. Kratochvil , Morgan May

We investigate the origin of $\Lambda$CDM parameter constraints in weak lensing, with a focus on the Hubble constant. We explain why current cosmic shear data are sensitive to the parameter combination $S_8 \propto \sigma_8 \Omega_m^{0.5}$,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Alex Hall

Here we present a number of improvements to weak lensing 3D power spectrum analysis, 3D cosmic shear, that uses the shape and redshift information of every galaxy to constrain cosmological parameters. We show how photometric redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 T. D. Kitching , A. F. Heavens , L. Miller

This work, together with its companion paper, Secco and Samuroff et al. (2021), presents the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 cosmic shear measurements and cosmological constraints based on an analysis of over 100 million source galaxies. With the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-03 A. Amon , D. Gruen , M. A. Troxel , N. MacCrann , S. Dodelson , A. Choi , C. Doux , L. F. Secco , S. Samuroff , E. Krause , J. Cordero , J. Myles , J. DeRose , R. H. Wechsler , M. Gatti , A. Navarro-Alsina , G. M. Bernstein , B. Jain , J. Blazek , A. Alarcon , A. Ferté , M. Raveri , P. Lemos , A. Campos , J. Prat , C. Sánchez , M. Jarvis , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , E. Baxter , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , S. L. Bridle , H. Camacho , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , R. Chen , P. Chintalapati , M. Crocce , C. Davis , H. T. Diehl , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , T. F. Eifler , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , X. Fang , P. Fosalba , O. Friedrich , G. Giannini , R. A. Gruendl , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , H. Huang , E. M. Huff , D. Huterer , N. Kuropatkin , P. -F. Leget , A. R. Liddle , J. McCullough , J. Muir , S. Pandey , Y. Park , A. Porredon , A. Refregier , R. P. Rollins , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , J. Sanchez , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , A. Troja , I. Tutusaus , T. N. Varga , N. Weaverdyck , B. Yanny , B. Yin , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , S. Bhargava , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , J. Carretero , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , 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 , R. Kron , 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 , A. K. Romer , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , J. Weller

We discuss the galaxy-galaxy-mass three-point correlation function and show how to measure it with weak gravitational lensing. The method entails choosing a large of pairs of foreground lens galaxies and constructing a mean shear map with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 David E. Johnston

We present constraints on the amplitude and shape of the matter power spectrum and the density of dark matter within the framework of a standard LambdaCDM model. We use a Markov Chain Monte Carlo approach to combine independent measurements…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Lesgourgues , M. Viel , M. G. Haehnelt , R. Massey

We study the accuracy with which weak lensing measurements could be made from a future space-based survey, predicting the subsequent precisions of 3-dimensional dark matter maps, projected 2-dimensional dark matter maps, and mass-selected…

Gravitational lensing can provide pure geometric tests of the structure of space-time, for instance by determining empirically the angular diameter distance-redshift relation. This geometric test has been demonstrated several times using…

With a primary goal of conducting precision weak lensing measurements from space, the COSMOS survey has imaged the largest contiguous area observed by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to date using the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS).…

We present cosmological parameter constraints from a tomographic weak gravitational lensing analysis of ~450deg$^2$ of imaging data from the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS). For a flat $\Lambda$CDM cosmology with a prior on $H_0$ that encompasses…