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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…

We present results of our cosmic shear survey in progress at the Canada- France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT). We analysed 1.7 sq. degrees of data, out of which we measured a significant correlation of galaxy shape-orientation over several arcmin…

Cosmic shear statistics, such as the two-point correlation function (2PCF), can be evaluated with the PDF-SYM method instead of the traditional weighted-sum approach. It makes use of the full PDF information of the shear estimators, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-18 Zhenjie Liu , Jun Zhang , Hekun Li , Zhi Shen , Cong Liu

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

We investigate the cosmological constraints from the void-lensing cross-correlation assuming the $w$CDM model for the Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST) photometric survey. Using Jiutian simulations, we construct a mock galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-19 Qi Xiong , Yan Gong , Junhui Yan , Furen Deng , Hengjie Lin , Xingchen Zhou , Xuelei Chen , Qi Guo , Ming Li , Yun Liu , Wenxiang Pei

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

We present cosmology results combining galaxy clustering and weak gravitational lensing measured in the full six years (Y6) of observations by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) covering $\sim$5000 deg$^2$. We perform a large-scale structure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-30 DES Collaboration , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Adamow , M. Aguena , A. Alarcon , S. S. Allam , O. Alves , A. Amon , D. Anbajagane , F. Andrade-Oliveira , S. Avila , D. Bacon , E. J. Baxter , J. Beas-Gonzalez , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , J. Blazek , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. Brout , H. Camacho , G. Camacho-Ciurana , R. Camilleri , G. Campailla , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , P. Carrilho , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , A. Choi , J. M. Coloma-Nadal , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , W. d'Assignies , L. N. da Costa , M. E. da Silva Pereira , T. M. Davis , J. De Vicente , J. DeRose , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , T. F. Eifler , J. Elvin-Poole , J. Estrada , S. Everett , A. E. Evrard , J. Fang , A. Farahi , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , G. Giannini , P. Giles , K. Glazebrook , M. Gorsuch , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , E. Henning , K. Herner , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , E. M. Huff , D. Huterer , B. Jain , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , N. Jeffrey , T. Jeltema , T. Kacprzak , S. Kent , A. Kovacs , E. Krause , R. Kron , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , S. Lee , E. Legnani , C. Lidman , H. Lin , N. MacCrann , M. Manera , T. Manning , J. L. Marshall , S. Mau , J. McCullough , J. Mena-Fernández , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , J. Muir , J. Myles , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , J. H. O'Donnell , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , M. Paterno , J. Peoples , W. J. Percival , D. Petravick , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Porredon , A. Pourtsidou , J. Prat , C. Preston , M. Raveri , W. Riquelme , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , P. Rogozenski , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , S. Samuroff , C. Sánchez , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , T. Schutt , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , N. Sherman , T. Shin , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , M. Tabbutt , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , A. Tong , L. Toribio San Cipriano , M. A. Troxel , M. Tsedrik , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , N. Weaverdyck , R. H. Wechsler , D. H. Weinberg , J. Weller , V. Wetzell , A. Whyley , R. D. Wilkinson , P. Wiseman , H. -Y. Wu , M. Yamamoto , B. Yanny , B. Yin , G. Zacharegkas , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz

In this paper, we propose a new method to use the strong lensing data sets to constrain a cosmological model. By taking the ratio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-05 Nannan Wang , Lixin Xu

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

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

Weak gravitational lensing provides a unique method to map directly the dark matter in the Universe. The majority of lensing analyses uses the two-point statistics of the cosmic shear field to constrain the cosmological model yielding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 S. Pires , J. -L. Starck , A. Amara , A. Refregier , R. Teyssier

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

In this paper, we study the cosmic constraint to $w$CDM model via $118$ strong gravitational lensing systems which are complied from SLACS, BELLS, LSD and SL2S surveys, where the ratio between two angular diameter distances $D^{obs} =…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-15 Jie An , Baorong Chang , Lixin Xu

We investigate the origin of $\Lambda$CDM parameter constraints in weak lensing, with a focus on the Hubble constant. We explain why current cosmic shear data are sensitive to the parameter combination $S_8 \propto \sigma_8 \Omega_m^{0.5}$,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Alex Hall

In the standard flat cosmological constant ($\Lambda$) cold dark matter (CDM) cosmology, a model of two populations of lens halos for strong gravitational lensing can reproduce the results of the Jodrell-Bank VLA Astrometric Survey (JVAS)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Da-Ming Chen

We present a quantitative analysis of the largest contiguous maps of projected mass density obtained from gravitational lensing shear. We use data from the 154 deg2 covered by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey. Our study is…

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

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

We present constraints on extensions to the flat $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model by varying the spatial curvature $\Omega_K$, the sum of the neutrino masses $\sum m_\nu$, the dark energy equation of state parameter $w$, and the Hu-Sawicki…