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Weak lensing can be observed through a number of effects on the images of distant galaxies; their shapes are sheared, their sizes and fluxes (magnitudes) are magnified and their positions on the sky are modified by the lensing field. Galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-12 Justin Alsing , Donnacha Kirk , Alan Heavens , Andrew Jaffe

Weak lensing shear estimation typically results in per galaxy statistical errors significantly larger than the sought after gravitational signal of only a few percent. These statistical errors are mostly a result of shape-noise -- an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Ofer M. Springer , Eran O. Ofek , Yair Weiss , Julian Merten

We investigate the detection prospects for gravitational lensing of three-dimensional maps from upcoming line intensity surveys, focusing in particular on the impact of gravitational nonlinearities on standard quadratic lensing estimators.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Simon Foreman , P. Daniel Meerburg , Alexander van Engelen , Joel Meyers

Weak gravitational lensing of the 21 cm radiation is expected to be an important cosmological probe for post-reionization physics. We investigate the reconstruction of the matter density perturbations using a quadratic minimum variance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 Priyesh Chakraborty , Anthony R. Pullen

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 report a detection of the coherent distortion of faint galaxies arising from gravitational lensing by foreground structures. This ``cosmic shear'' is potentially the most direct measure of the mass power spectrum, as it is unaffected by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 David Bacon , Alexandre Refregier , Richard Ellis

In order to reach the required performance of Stage-III and IV weak lensing surveys, cosmic shear measurements have to rely on external simulations to calibrate residual biases. Over the years, several techniques have been developed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-11 G. Congedo , A. N. Taylor

We use statistical inference theory to explore the constraints from future galaxy weak lensing (cosmic shear) surveys combined with the current CMB constraints on cosmological parameters, focusing particularly on the running of the spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mustapha Ishak , Christopher M. Hirata , Patrick McDonald , Uros Seljak

We present a novel method for reconstructing weak lensing mass or convergence maps as a probe to study non-Gaussianities in the cosmic density field. While previous surveys have relied on a flat-sky approximation, the forthcoming stage IV…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-03 Vanshika Kansal

We propose a novel method to reconstruct high-resolution three-dimensional mass maps using data from photometric weak-lensing surveys. We apply an adaptive LASSO algorithm to perform a sparsity-based reconstruction on the assumption that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-03 Xiangchong Li , Naoki Yoshida , Masamune Oguri , Shiro Ikeda , Wentao Luo

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

Gravitational weak lensing by large scale structures is view as a tool to probe the bias relation between the mass and the light distributions. It is explained how a particular statistic can be used to deproject the 2D mass distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Van Waerbeke

Weak lensing magnification probes the correlation between galaxies and the underlying matter field in a similar fashion to galaxy-galaxy lensing shear. Although it has long been sidelined in favor of the latter on the grounds of a poorer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-28 Marcos M. Cueli , Joaquín González-Nuevo , Laura Bonavera , Andrea Lapi

To take full advantage of the unprecedented power of upcoming weak lensing surveys, understanding the noise, such as cosmic variance and geometry/mask effects, is as important as understanding the signal itself. Accurately quantifying the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-26 Yu Yu , Pengjie Zhang , Yipeng Jing

The use of large, X-ray selected galaxy cluster catalogues for cosmological analyses requires a thorough understanding of the X-ray mass estimates. Weak gravitational lensing is an ideal method to shed light on such issues, due to its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Melanie Simet , Nicholas Battaglia , Rachel Mandelbaum , Uroš Seljak

Weak gravitational lensing has the potential to constrain cosmological parameters to high precision. However, as shown by the Shear TEsting Programmes (STEP) and GRavitational lEnsing Accuracy Testing (GREAT) Challenges, measuring galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Tomasz Kacprzak , Joe Zuntz , Barnaby Rowe , Sarah Bridle , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara , Lisa Voigt , Michael Hirsch

Recent works have shown that weak lensing magnification must be included in upcoming large-scale structure analyses, such as for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), to avoid biasing the cosmological…

We propose a novel bias-free method for reconstructing the power spectrum of the weak lensing deflection field from cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations. The proposed method is in contrast to the standard method of CMB lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 Blake D. Sherwin , Sudeep Das

In \citep{Qin+}, we attempted to reconstruct the weak lensing convergence map $\hat{\kappa}$ from cosmic magnification by linearly weighting the DECaLS galaxy overdensities in different magnitude bins of $grz$ photometry bands. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-03 Jian Qin , Pengjie Zhang , Yu Yu , Haojie Xu , Ji Yao , Yuan Shi , Huanyuan Shan