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In this paper we present results of applying the shear-ratio method to the RCSLenS data. The method takes the ratio of the mean of the weak lensing tangential shear signal about galaxy clusters, averaged over all clusters of the same…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-14 T. D. Kitching , M. Viola , H. Hildebrandt , A. Choi , T. Erben , D. G. Gilbank , C. Heymans , L. Miller , R. Nakajima , E. van Uitert

We present our cosmic shear analysis of GEMS, one of the largest wide-field surveys ever undertaken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Imaged with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), GEMS spans 795 square arcmin in the Chandra Deep Field…

Measurements of weak gravitational lensing using the cosmic microwave background and the shapes of galaxies have refined our understanding of the late-time history of the Universe. While optical surveys have been the primary source for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-20 Alba Kalaja , Ian Harrison , William R Coulton

We present a cosmic shear study from the Deep Lens Survey (DLS), a deep BVRz multi-band imaging survey of five 4 sq. degree fields with two National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) 4-meter telescopes at Kitt Peak and Cerro Tololo. For…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. James Jee , J. Anthony Tyson , Michael D. Schneider , David Wittman , Samuel Schmidt , Stefan Hilbert

Accurate photometric redshifts are among the key requirements for precision weak lensing measurements. Both the large size of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the existence of large spectroscopic redshift samples that are…

Weak gravitational lensing (WL) has been established as one of the most promising probes of cosmology. So far, most studies have exploited the shear effect of WL leading to coherent distortions of galaxy shapes. But WL also introduces…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 H. Hildebrandt , L. van Waerbeke , T. Erben

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

We present the first constraints on cosmology from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), using weak lensing measurements from the preliminary Science Verification (SV) data. We use 139 square degrees of SV data, which is less than 3\% of the full…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-05 The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration , T. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , A. Amara , J. Annis , R. Armstrong , D. Bacon , M. Banerji , A. H. Bauer , E. Baxter , M. R. Becker , A. Benoit-Lévy , R. A. Bernstein , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , J. Blazek , C. Bonnett , S. L. Bridle , D. Brooks , C. Bruderer , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , M. T. Busha , D. Capozzi , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. Chang , J. Clampitt , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , R. Das , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , G. Efstathiou , T. F. Eifler , B. Erickson , J. Estrada , A. E. Evrard , A. Fausti Neto , E. Fernandez , D. A. Finley , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , O. Friedrich , J. Frieman , C. Gangkofner , J. Garcia-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , W. Hartley , M. Hirsch , K. Honscheid , E. M. Huff , B. Jain , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , T. Kacprzak , S. Kent , D. Kirk , E. Krause , A. Kravtsov , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , J. Kwan , O. Lahav , B. Leistedt , T. S. Li , M. Lima , H. Lin , N. MacCrann , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , R. G. McMahon , P. Melchior , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , E. Neilsen , R. C. Nichol , A. Nicola , B. Nord , R. Ogando , A. Palmese , H. V. Peiris , A. A. Plazas , A. Refregier , N. Roe , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , B. Rowe , E. S. Rykoff , C. Sabiu , I. Sadeh , M. Sako , S. Samuroff , C. Sánchez , E. Sanchez , H. Seo , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , D. Thomas , M. A. Troxel , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , R. H. Wechsler , J. Weller , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz

Weak lensing peak abundance analyses have been applied in different surveys and demonstrated to be a powerful statistics in extracting cosmological information complementary to cosmic shear two-point correlation studies. Future large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Shuo Yuan , Chuzhong Pan , Xiangkun Liu , Qiao Wang , Zuhui Fan

A cross-correlation technique of lensing tomography is presented to measure the evolution of dark energy in the universe. The variation of the weak lensing shear with redshift around massive foreground objects like bright galaxies and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Bhuvnesh Jain , Andy Taylor

We perform a joint analysis of the abundance, the clustering and the galaxy-galaxy lensing signal of galaxies measured from Data Release 11 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (SDSS III-BOSS) in our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Surhud More , Hironao Miyatake , Rachel Mandelbaum , Masahiro Takada , David Spergel , Joel Brownstein , Donald P. Schneider

We present the first galaxy-galaxy weak lensing results using early data from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey (CFHTLS). These results are based on ~22 sq. deg. of i' data. From this data, we estimate the average velocity…

We measure the harmonic-space auto-power spectrum of the galaxy overdensity in the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) First Data Release and its cross correlation with the map of the lensing convergence of the cosmic microwave background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 David Alonso , Emilio Bellini , Catherine Hale , Matt J. Jarvis , Dominik J. Schwarz

We present constraints on the amplitude of matter fluctuations from the clustering of galaxies and their cross-correlation with the gravitational lensing convergence of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), focusing on low redshifts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-13 Andrea Rubiola , Matteo Zennaro , Carlos García-García , David Alonso

Aims: We present a wide-field multi-color survey of a homogeneous sample of eleven clusters of galaxies for which we measure total masses and mass distributions from weak lensing. Methods: The eleven clusters in our sample are all X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Bardeau , G. Soucail , J. P. Kneib , O. Czoske , H. Ebeling , P. Hudelot , I. Smail , G. P. Smith

We have investigated, using both a theoretical and an empirical approach, the frequency of low redshift galaxy-galaxy lensing systems in which the signature of weak lensing might be directly detectable. We find good agreement between these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 Catherine O. de Burgh-Day , Edward N. Taylor , Rachel L. Webster , Andrew M. Hopkins

We present measurements of the weak gravitational lensing shear power spectrum based on $450$ sq. deg. of imaging data from the Kilo Degree Survey. We employ a quadratic estimator in two and three redshift bins and extract band powers of…

There is currently a discrepancy in the measured value of the amplitude of matter clustering, parameterised using $\sigma_8$, inferred from galaxy weak lensing, and cosmic microwave background data, which could be an indication of new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-15 Thomas D. Kitching , Licia Verde , Alan F. Heavens , Raul Jimenez

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

Weak gravitational lensing is a powerful cosmological probe, with non--Gaussian features potentially containing the majority of the information. We examine constraints on the parameter triplet $(\Omega_m,w,\sigma_8)$ from non-Gaussian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Andrea Petri , Jia Liu , Zoltan Haiman , Morgan May , Lam Hui , Jan M. Kratochvil