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The wealth of incoming and future cosmological observations will allow us to map out the structure and evolution of the observable universe to an unprecedented level of precision. Among these observations is the weak gravitational lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. A. Troxel , Mustapha Ishak

We present a new non-parametric method for determining mean 3D density and mass profiles from weak lensing measurements around stacked samples of galaxies or clusters, that is, from measurement of the galaxy-shear or cluster-shear…

We show, using the pseudo-$C_\ell$ technique, how to estimate cosmic shear and galaxy-galaxy lensing power spectra that are insensitive to the effects of multiple sources of lensing bias including source-lens clustering, magnification bias…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-12 Christopher A. J. Duncan , Michael L. Brown

We explore the discovery potential of light gravitino mass m_{3/2} by combining future cosmology surveys and collider experiments. The former probe the imprint of light gravitinos in the cosmic matter density field, whereas the latter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Ayuki Kamada , Masato Shirasaki , Naoki Yoshida

We present galaxy--galaxy lensing (GGL) measurements from the full six years of data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES Y6), covering $4031\,\mathrm{deg}^2$ and used in the DES Y6 $3\times2$pt cosmological analysis. We use the MagLim++ lens…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-22 G. Giannini , G. Camacho-Ciurana , A. Whyley , J. Prat , J. Blazek , C. Sánchez , G. Zacharegkas , A. Alarcon , E. Legnani , A. Amon , D. Anbajagane , S. Avila , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , S. Bocquet , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , M. Crocce , W. d'Assignies , J. De Vicente , A. Drlica-Wagner , S. Elvin-Poole , A. Ferté , M. Gatti , D. Gruen , M. Jarvis , M. Manera , S. Mau , J. McCullough , F. Menanteau , J. Myles , A. Porredon , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , A. Roodman , E. S. Rykoff , S. Samuroff , D. Sanchez Cid , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , T. Schutt , M. A. Troxel , N. Weaverdyck , M. Yamamoto , B. Yin , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , H. Camacho , J. Carretero , L. N. da Costa , M. E. da Silva Pereira , T. M. Davis , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , C. Doux , T. F. Eifler , S. Everett , A. E. Evrard , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , P. Giles , K. Glazebrook , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , B. Jain , D. J. James , N. Jeffrey , T. Kacprzak , S. Kent , E. Krause , O. Lahav , S. Lee , J. L. Marshall , J. Mena-Fernández , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , J. Muir , R. C. Nichol , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , M. Paterno , W. J. Percival , D. Petravick , A. A. Plazas Malagón , M. Raveri , R. Rosenfeld , E. Sanchez , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , J. Allyn. Smith , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , M. Vincenzi , A. R. Walker , P. Wiseman , B. Yanny

We propose a novel method to detect cosmic magnification signals by cross-correlating foreground convergence fields constructed from galaxy shear measurements with background galaxy positional distributions, namely shear-number density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-07 Xiangkun Liu , Dezi Liu , Zucheng Gao , Chengliang Wei , Guoliang Li , Liping Fu , Toshifumi Futamase , Zuhui Fan

Accurate measurement of the cluster mass function is a crucial element in efforts to constrain structure formation models, the normalisation of the matter power spectrum and the cosmological matter density, and the nature and evolution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Virginia L. Corless , Lindsay J. King

We present a derivation of a generalized optimally-weighted estimator for the weak lensing magnification signal, including a calculation of errors. With this estimator, we present a local method for optimally estimating the local effects of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Bryan Gillis , Andy Taylor

We present galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements from 1321 sq. deg. of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 1 (Y1) data. The lens sample consists of a selection of 660,000 red galaxies with high-precision photometric redshifts, known as redMaGiC,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 J. Prat , C. Sánchez , Y. Fang , D. Gruen , J. Elvin-Poole , N. Kokron , L. F. Secco , B. Jain , R. Miquel , N. MacCrann , M. A. Troxel , A. Alarcon , D. Bacon , G. M. Bernstein , J. Blazek , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , M. Crocce , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , J. P. Dietrich , A. Drlica-Wagner , O. Friedrich , M. Gatti , W. G. Hartley , B. Hoyle , E. M. Huff , M. Jarvis , M. M. Rau , R. P. Rollins , A. J. Ross , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , S. Samuroff , E. Sheldon , T. N. Varga , P. Vielzeuf , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , J. Annis , K. Bechtol , A. Benoit-Lévy , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , T. F. Eifler , E. Fernandez , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , D. A. Goldstein , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , D. Kirk , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , J. J. Mohr , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Smith , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , R. H. Wechsler , B. Yanny , Y. Zhang

Modeling the intrinsic alignment (IA) of galaxies poses a challenge to weak lensing analyses. The Dark Energy Survey is expected to be less impacted by IA when limited to blue, star-forming galaxies. The cosmological parameter constraints…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 J. McCullough , A. Amon , E. Legnani , D. Gruen , A. Roodman , O. Friedrich , N. MacCrann , M. R. Becker , J. Myles , S. Dodelson , S. Samuroff , J. Blazek , J. Prat , K. Honscheid , A. Pieres , A. Ferté , A. Alarcon , A. Drlica-Wagner , A. Choi , A. Navarro-Alsina , A. Campos , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Porredon , A. Farahi , A. J. Ross , A. Carnero Rosell , B. Yin , B. Flaugher , B. Yanny , C. Sánchez , C. Chang , C. Davis , C. To , C. Doux , D. Brooks , D. J. James , D. Sanchez Cid , D. L. Hollowood , D. Huterer , E. S. Rykoff , E. Gaztanaga , E. M. Huff , E. Suchyta , E. Sheldon , E. Sanchez , F. Tarsitano , F. Andrade-Oliveira , F. J. Castander , G. M. Bernstein , G. Gutierrez , G. Giannini , G. Tarle , H. T. Diehl , H. Huang , I. Harrison , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , I. Tutusaus , I. Ferrero , J. Elvin-Poole , J. L. Marshall , J. Muir , J. Weller , J. Zuntz , J. Carretero , J. DeRose , J. Frieman , J. Cordero , J. De Vicente , J. García-Bellido , J. Mena-Fernández , K. Eckert , A. K. Romer , K. Bechtol , K. Herner , K. Kuehn , L. F. Secco , L. N. da Costa , M. Paterno , 21 M. Soares-Santos , M. Gatti , M. Raveri , M. Yamamoto , M. Smith , M. Carrasco Kind , M. A. Troxel , M. Aguena , M. Jarvis , M. E. C. Swanson , N. Weaverdyck , O. Lahav , P. Doel , P. Wiseman , R. Miquel , R. A. Gruendl , R. Cawthon , S. Allam , S. R. Hinton , S. L. Bridle , S. Bocquet , S. Desai , S. Pandey , S. Everett , S. Lee , T. Shin , A. Palmese , C. Conselice , D. L. Burke , E. Buckley-Geer , M. Lima , M. Vincenzi , M. E. S. Pereira , M. Crocce , M. Schubnell , N. Jeffrey , O. Alves , V. Vikram , Y. Zhang , DES Collaboration

We present a new shear estimator for weak lensing observations which properly accounts for the effects of a realistic point spread function (PSF). Images of faint galaxies are subject to gravitational shearing followed by smearing with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Nick Kaiser

We develop the maximum-entropy weak shear mass reconstruction method presented in earlier papers by taking each background galaxy image shape as an independent estimator of the reduced shear field and incorporating an intrinsic smoothness…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. J. Marshall , M. P. Hobson , S. F. Gull , S. L. Bridle

In this paper we derive an exact full expression for the 2D probability distribution of the ellipticity of an object measured from data, only assuming Gaussian noise in pixel values. This is a generalisation of the probability distribution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Massimo Viola , Thomas Kitching , Benjamin Joachimi

Metacalibration is a new technique for measuring weak gravitational lensing shear that is unbiased for isolated galaxy images. In this work we test metacalibration with overlapping, or ``blended'' galaxy images. Using standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Erin S. Sheldon , Matthew R. Becker , Niall MacCrann , Michael Jarvis

Correlations between the intrinsic shapes of galaxies and the large-scale galaxy density field provide an important tool to investigate galaxy intrinsic alignments, which constitute a major astrophysical systematic in cosmological weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-01 B. Joachimi , R. Mandelbaum , F. B. Abdalla , S. L. Bridle

We introduce the Galaxy Intensity Mapping cross-COrrelation estimator (GIMCO), which is a new tomographic estimator for the gravitational lensing potential, based on a combination of intensity mapping (IM) and galaxy number counts. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-25 Mona Jalilvand , Elisabetta Majerotto , Camille Bonvin , Fabien Lacasa , Martin Kunz , Warren Naidoo , Kavilan Moodley

We present results from a set of simulations designed to constrain the weak lensing shear calibration for the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) survey. These simulations include HSC observing conditions and galaxy images from the Hubble Space…

This paper extends the method introduced in Rivi et al. (2016b) to measure galaxy ellipticities in the visibility domain for radio weak lensing surveys. In that paper we focused on the development and testing of the method for the simple…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-16 Marzia Rivi , Lance Miller