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We present an independent calibration of the photometric redshift (photo-$z$) distributions for source galaxies in the HSC-Y3 weak lensing survey using small-scale galaxy-galaxy lensing. By measuring the tangential shear around…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-31 Divya Rana , Surhud More , Hironao Miyatake , Sunao Sugiyama , Tianqing Zhang , Masato Shirasaki

Kinematic weak lensing describes the distortion of a galaxy's projected velocity field due to lensing shear, an effect recently reported for the first time by Gurri et al. based on a sample of 18 galaxies at $z \sim 0.1$. In this paper, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Brian DiGiorgio , Kevin Bundy , Kyle B. Westfall , Alexie Leauthaud , David Stark

We describe a new method for reducing the shape noise in weak lensing measurements by an order of magnitude. Our method relies on spectroscopic measurements of disk galaxy rotation and makes use of the Tully-Fisher relation in order to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-11 Eric M. Huff , Elisabeth Krause , Tim Eifler , Xiao Fang , Matthew R. George , David Schlegel

Cosmic shear is the distortion of images of distant galaxies due to weak gravitational lensing by the large-scale structure in the Universe. Such images are coherently deformed by the tidal field of matter inhomogeneities along the line of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-22 Martin Kilbinger

We present a method that accurately propagates residual uncertainties in photometric redshift distributions into the cosmological inference from weak lensing measurements. The redshift distributions of tomographic redshift bins are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 B. Stölzner , B. Joachimi , A. Korn , H. Hildebrandt , A. H. Wright

Large-scale structure distorts the images of background galaxies, which allows one to measure directly the projected distribution of dark matter in the universe and determine its power spectrum. Here we address the question of how to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Uros Seljak

We present a method to measure the growth of structure and the background geometry of the Universe -- with no a priori assumption about the underlying cosmological model. Using Canada-France-Hawaii Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS) shear data we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-12 Peter L. Taylor , Thomas D. Kitching , Jason D. McEwen

Observations of redshift-space distortions in spectroscopic galaxy surveys offer an attractive method for observing the build-up of cosmological structure. In this paper we develop and test a new statistic based on anisotropies in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Will J Percival , Martin White

We infer gravitational lensing shear and convergence fields from galaxy ellipticity catalogs under a spatial process prior for the lensing potential. We demonstrate the performance of our algorithm with simulated Gaussian-distributed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 Michael D. Schneider , Karen Y. Ng , William A. Dawson , Philip J. Marshall , Joshua Meyers , Deborah J. Bard

We present the theoretical and analytical bases of optimal techniques to measure weak gravitational shear from images of galaxies. We first characterize the geometric space of shears and ellipticity, then use this geometric interpretation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 G. M. Bernstein , M. Jarvis

We present a combined cosmic shear analysis of the modeling of line-of-sight distortions on strongly lensed extended arcs and galaxy shape measurements in the COSMOS field. We develop a framework to predict the covariance of strong lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 Felix Arjun Kuhn , Claudio Bruderer , Simon Birrer , Adam Amara , Alexandre Réfrégier

Exploiting the full statistical power of future cosmic shear surveys will necessitate improvements to the accuracy with which the gravitational lensing signal is measured. We present a framework for calibrating shear with image simulations…

The magnification of galaxies in modern galaxy surveys induces additional correlations in the cosmic shear, galaxy-galaxy lensing and clustering observables used in modern lensing "3x2pt" analyses, due to sample selection. In this paper, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-06 Christopher A. J. Duncan , Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Lance Miller

We explore the dependence of weak lensing phenomena on the background cosmology. We first generalise the relation between $P_\psi(\omega)$, the angular power spectrum of the distortion, and the power spectrum of density fluctuations to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Nick Kaiser

A cosmic shear survey, spanning a significant proportion of the sky, should greatly improve constraints on a number of cosmological parameters. It also provides a unique opportunity to examine the matter power spectrum directly. However,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fergus Simpson

Statistical weak lensing by large-scale structure -- cosmic shear -- is a promising cosmological tool, which has motivated the design of several large upcoming surveys. Here, we present a measurement of cosmic shear using coadded Sloan…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-15 Eric M. Huff , Tim Eifler , Christopher M. Hirata , Rachel Mandelbaum , David Schlegel , Uros Seljak

The correlation between cosmic shear as measured by the image distortion of high-redshift galaxies and the number counts of foreground galaxies is calculated. For a given power spectrum of the cosmic density fluctuations, this correlation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Peter Schneider

The cosmological interpretation of weak lensing by large-scale structures requires knowledge of the redshift distribution of the source galaxies. Current lensing surveys are often calibrated using external redshift samples which span a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ludovic Van Waerbeke , Martin White , Henk Hoekstra , Catherine Heymans

In this paper, we motivate the use of galaxy clustering measurements using photometric redshift information, including a contribution from flux magnification, as a probe of cosmology. We present cosmological forecasts when clustering data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Christopher Duncan , Benjamin Joachimi , Alan Heavens , Catherine Heymans , Hendrik Hildebrandt