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We investigate the expected cosmological constraints from a combination of weak lensing and large-scale galaxy clustering using realistic redshift distributions. Introducing a systematic bias in the weak lensing redshift distributions (of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 S Samuroff , MA Troxel , SL Bridle , J Zuntz , N MacCrann , E Krause , T Eifler , D Kirk

Context. The density split statistics in weak gravitational lensing analyses probes the correlation between regions of different (foreground) galaxy number densities and their weak lensing signal, measured by the shape distortion of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Pierre Burger , Peter Schneider , Vasiliy Demchenko , Joachim Harnois-Deraps , Catherine Heymans , Hendrik Hildebrandt , Sandra Unruh

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

We investigate the performance of an analytic model of the 3D matter distribution, which combines perturbation theory with halo models, for weak-lensing configuration-space statistics. We compared our predictions for the weak-lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Patrick Valageas , Masanori Sato , Takahiro Nishimichi

Lensing studies are typically carried out around high density regions, such as groups and clusters, where the lensing signals are significant and indicative of rich density structures. However, a more comprehensive test of the cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-04 Yiqi Huang , Fuyu Dong , Jun Zhang , Cong Liu , Hekun Li

We present cosmological constraints derived from peak counts, minimum counts, and the angular power spectrum of the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam first-year (HSC Y1) weak lensing shear catalog. Weak lensing peak and minimum counts contain…

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 utilize the probability distribution function (PDF) of normalized convergence maps reconstructed from the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) Y1 shear catalogue, in combination with the power spectrum, to measure the matter clustering…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-23 Leander Thiele , Gabriela A. Marques , Jia Liu , Masato Shirasaki

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 propose counting peaks in weak lensing (WL) maps, as a function of their height, to probe models of dark energy and to constrain cosmological parameters. Because peaks can be identified in two-dimensional WL maps directly, they can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Jan M. Kratochvil , Zoltán Haiman , Morgan May

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

Future weak lensing surveys will directly probe the density fluctuation in the universe. Recent studies have shown how the statistics of the weak lensing convergence field is related to the statistics of collapsed objects. Extending earlier…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dipak Munshi

The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS) comprises deep multi-colour (u*g'r'i'z') photometry spanning 154 square degrees, with accurate photometric redshifts and shape measurements. We demonstrate that the redshift…

Weak lensing peak counts are a powerful statistical tool for constraining cosmological parameters. So far, this method has been applied only to surveys with relatively small areas, up to several hundred square degrees. As future surveys…

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We develop an accurate and computationally efficient emulator to model the gravitational lensing magnification probability distribution function (PDF), enabling robust cosmological inference of point sources such as supernovae and…

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We describe a method to estimate the mass distribution of a gravitational lens and the position of the sources from combined strong and weak lensing data. The algorithm combines weak and strong lensing data in a unified way producing a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. M. Diego , M. Tegmark , P. Protopapas , H. B. Sandvik

The topology of weak lensing fields is studied using the 2-dimensional genus statistic. Simulated fields of the weak lensing convergence are used to focus on the effect of nonlinear gravitional evolution and to model the statistical errors…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Takahiko Matsubara , Bhuvnesh Jain

This is the third in a series of papers that develop a new and flexible model to predict weak-lensing (WL) peak counts, which have been shown to be a very valuable non-Gaussian probe of cosmology. In this paper, we compare the cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-03 Chieh-An Lin , Martin Kilbinger , Sandrine Pires

We present a comprehensive full-sky 3-dimensional analysis of the weak-lensing fields and their corresponding power spectra. Using the formalism of spin-weight spherical harmonics and spherical Bessel functions, we relate the two-point…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. G. Castro , A. F. Heavens , T. D. Kitching

We present photometric redshift estimates for galaxies used in the weak lensing analysis of the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification (DES SV) data. Four model- or machine learning-based photometric redshift methods -- ANNZ2, BPZ…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-07 C. Bonnett , M. A. Troxel , W. Hartley , A. Amara , B. Leistedt , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , S. Bridle , C. Bruderer , M. T. Busha , M. Carrasco Kind , M. J. Childress , F. J. Castander , C. Chang , M. Crocce , T. M. Davis , T. F. Eifler , J. Frieman , C. Gangkofner , E. Gaztanaga , K. Glazebrook , D. Gruen , T. Kacprzak , A. King , J. Kwan , O. Lahav , G. Lewis , C. Lidman , H. Lin , N. MacCrann , R. Miquel , C. R. O'Neill , A. Palmese , H. V. Peiris , A. Refregier , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , I. Sadeh , C. Sánchez , E. Sheldon , S. Uddin , R. H. Wechsler , J. Zuntz , T. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , R. Armstrong , M. Banerji , A. H. Bauer , A. Benoit-Lévy , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , D. Capozzi , A. Carnero Rosell , J. Carretero , 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 , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , D. W. Gerdes , R. A. Gruendl , K. Honscheid , B. Jain , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , A. G. Kim , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , T. S. Li , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , C. J. Miller , E. Neilsen , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , R. Ogando , A. A. Plazas , K. Reil , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , 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