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Lensing Without Borders is a cross-survey collaboration created to assess the consistency of galaxy-galaxy lensing signals ($\Delta\Sigma$) across different data-sets and to carry out end-to-end tests of systematic errors. We perform a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 A. Leauthaud , A. Amon , S. Singh , D. Gruen , J. U. Lange , S. Huang , N. C. Robertson , T. N. Varga , Y. Luo , C. Heymans , H. Hildebrandt , C. Blake , M. Aguena , S. Allam , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Annis , E. Bertin , S. Bhargava , J. Blazek , S. L. Bridle , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , A. Choi , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , J. DeRose , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , K. Eckert , S. Everett , A. E. Evrard , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Garcia-Bellido , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , W. G. Hartley , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Jain , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , B. Joachimi , A. Kannawadi , A. G. Kim , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , K. Kuijken , N. Kuropatkin , M. Lima , N. MacCrann , M. A. G. Maia , M. Makler , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , H. Miyatake , J. J. Mohr , B. Moraes , S. More , M. Surhud , R. Morgan , J. Myles , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchon , A. A. Plazas Malagon , J. Prat , M. M. Rau , J. Rhodes , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , A. Roodman , A. J. Ross , S. Samuroff , C. Sanchez , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , D. J. Schlegel , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , C. Sifon , M. Smith , J. S. Speagle , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , J. Tinker , C. To , M. A. Troxel , L. Van Waerbeke , P. Vielzeuf , A. H. Wright

Cosmological galaxy surveys aim at mapping the largest volumes to test models with techniques such as cluster abundance, cosmic shear correlations or baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), which are designed to be independent of galaxy bias.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 E. Gaztanaga , M. Eriksen , M. Crocce , F. Castander , P. Fosalba , P. Marti , R. Miquel , A. Cabre

The intrinsic alignments (IA) of galaxies, a key contaminant in weak lensing analyses, arise from correlations in galaxy shapes driven by tidal interactions and galaxy formation processes. Accurate IA modeling is essential for robust…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-03 Sneh Pandya , Yuanyuan Yang , Nicholas Van Alfen , Jonathan Blazek , Robin Walters

We use the halo model of clustering to compute two- and three-point correlation functions for weak lensing, and apply them in a new statistical technique to measure properties of massive halos. We present analytical results on the eight…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Masahiro Takada , Bhuvnesh Jain

We investigate a physical, composite alignment model for both spiral and elliptical galaxies and its impact on cosmological parameter estimation from weak lensing for a tomographic survey. Ellipticity correlation functions and angular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-20 Tim M. Tugendhat , Bjoern Malte Schaefer

We present a new method to measure the redshift-dependent galaxy bias by combining information from the galaxy density field and the weak lensing field. This method is based on Amara et al. (2012), where they use the galaxy density field to…

Cross-correlating the lensing signals of galaxies and comic microwave background (CMB) fluctuations is expected to provide valuable cosmological information. In particular it may help tighten constraints on parameters describing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-14 Philipp M. Merkel , Bjoern Malte Schaefer

The intrinsic alignment (IA) of galaxy shapes probes the underlying gravitational tidal field, thus offering cosmological information complementary to galaxy clustering. In this paper, we perform a Fisher forecast to assess the benefit of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-06 Junsup Shim , Teppei Okumura , Atsushi Taruya

Calibrating the redshift distributions of photometric galaxy samples is essential in weak lensing studies. The self-calibration method combines angular auto- and cross-correlations between galaxies in multiple photometric redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-07 Haojie Xu , Pengjie Zhang , Hui Peng , Yu Yu , Le Zhang , Ji Yao , Jian Qin , Zeyang Sun , Min He , Xiaohu Yang

We propose a method to measure the ellipticities of dark matter halos using the lens-shear-shear 3-point correlation function. This method is immune to effects of galaxy-halo misalignments that can potentially limit 2-point galaxy-galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Susmita Adhikari , Chun Yin Ricky Chue , Neal Dalal

By obtaining photometric redshift information, tomography allows us to cross-correlate galaxy ellipticities in different source redshift bins. The cross-correlation is non-vanishing because the different bins share much of the foreground…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Masahiro Takada , Martin White

Cosmic shear constrains cosmology by exploiting the apparent alignments of pairs of galaxies due to gravitational lensing by intervening mass clumps. However galaxies may become (intrinsically) aligned with each other, and with nearby mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Sarah Bridle , Lindsay King

We present a new method to estimate redshift distributions and galaxy-dark matter bias parameters using correlation functions in a fully data driven and self-consistent manner. Unlike other machine learning, template, or correlation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-09 Ben Hoyle , Markus Michael Rau

We present legacy cosmic shear measurements and cosmological constraints using six years of Dark Energy Survey imaging data. From these data, we study ~140 million galaxies (8.29 galaxies/arcmin$^2$) that are 50% complete at i=24.0 and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 DES Collaboration , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , A. Alarcon , O. Alves , A. Amon , D. Anbajagane , F. Andrade-Oliveira , W. d'Assignies , S. Avila , D. Bacon , J. Beas-Gonzalez , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , J. Blazek , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , H. Camacho , G. Camacho-Ciurana , R. Camilleri , G. Campailla , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , A. Choi , J. M. Coloma-Nadal , C. Conselice , L. N. da Costa , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , T. M. Davis , J. De Vicente , D. L. DePoy , J. DeRose , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , T. F. Eifler , S. Everett , A. E. Evrard , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , O. Friedrich , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , M. Gatti , G. Giannini , P. Giles , K. Glazebrook , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , B. Jain , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , N. Jeffrey , T. Jeltema , T. Kacprzak , S. Kent , E. Krause , O. Lahav , S. Lee , E. Legnani , H. Lin , J. L. Marshall , S. Mau , J. Mena-Fernández , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , J. Muir , J. Myles , R. C. Nichol , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , M. Paterno , W. J. Percival , D. Petravick , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Porredon , J. Prat , C. Preston , M. Raveri , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. S. Rykoff , S. Samuroff , C. Sánchez , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , T. Schutt , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , M. E. da Silva Pereira , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , M. Tabbutt , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , M. A. Troxel , V. Vikram , M. Vincenzi , N. Weaverdyck , J. Weller , P. Wiseman , M. Yamamoto , B. Yanny , B. Yin , J. Zuntz

We present a cosmic shear analysis of the 100 square degree weak lensing survey, combining data from the CFHTLS-Wide, RCS, VIRMOS-DESCART and GaBoDS surveys. Spanning ~100 square degrees, with a median source redshift z~0.78, this combined…

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 measure the weak lensing shear around galaxy troughs, i.e. the radial alignment of background galaxies relative to underdensities in projections of the foreground galaxy field over a wide range of redshift in Science Verification data…

In classical cosmological analysis of large scale structure surveys with 2-pt functions, the parameter measurement precision is limited by several key degeneracies within the cosmology and astrophysics sectors. For cosmic shear, clustering…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-21 Tomasz Kacprzak , Janis Fluri