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Using 1000 ray-tracing simulations for a {\Lambda}-dominated cold dark model in Sato et al. (2009), we study the covariance matrix of cosmic shear correlation functions, which is the standard statistics used in the previous measurements.…

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As weak lensing surveys are becoming deeper and cover larger areas, information will be available on small angular scales down to the arcmin level. To extract this extra information, accurate modelling of baryonic effects is necessary. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-21 Tianhuan Lu , Zoltán Haiman

Intrinsic variations of the projected density profiles of clusters of galaxies at fixed mass are a source of uncertainty for cluster weak lensing. We present a semi-analytical model to account for this effect, based on a combination of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 D. Gruen , S. Seitz , M. R. Becker , O. Friedrich , A. Mana

With increasingly large data sets, weak lensing measurements are able to measure cosmological parameters with ever greater precision. However this increased accuracy also places greater demands on the statistical tools used to extract the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Pires , J. -L. Starck , A. Amara , R. Teyssier , A. Refregier , J. Fadili

Stage IV lensing surveys promise to make available an unprecedented amount of excellent data which will represent a huge leap in terms of both quantity and quality. This will open the way to the use of novel tools, which go beyond the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 Carolina Parroni , Vincenzo F. Cardone , Roberto Maoli , Roberto Scaramella

Upcoming weak-lensing surveys have the potential to become leading cosmological probes provided all systematic effects are under control. Recently, the ejection of gas due to feedback energy from active galactic nuclei (AGN) has been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Andreas J. Weiss , Aurel Schneider , Raphael Sgier , Tomasz Kacprzak , Adam Amara , Alexandre Refregier

Weak lensing measurements are entering a precision era to statistically map the distribution of matter in the universe. The most common measurement has been of the variance of the projected surface density of matter, which corresponds to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tong-Jie Zhang , Ue-Li Pen , Pengjie Zhang , John Dubinski

Wide-separation lensed QSOs measure the mass function and evolution of massive galaxy clusters, in a similar way to the cluster mass function deduced from X-ray-selected samples or statistical measurements of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ana M. Lopes , Lance Miller

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

We review the effect of the commonly-used Limber and flat-sky approximations on the calculation of shear power spectra and correlation functions for galaxy weak lensing. These approximations are accurate at small scales, but it has been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-17 Pablo Lemos , Anthony Challinor , George Efstathiou

Baryonic feedback effects lead to a suppression of the weak lensing angular power spectrum on small scales. The poorly constrained shape and amplitude of this suppression is an important source of uncertainties for upcoming cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 Aurel Schneider , Nicola Stoira , Alexandre Refregier , Andreas J. Weiss , Mischa Knabenhans , Joachim Stadel , Romain Teyssier

Weak gravitational lensing, or weak lensing, is one of the most powerful probes for dark matter and dark energy science, although it faces increasing challenges in controlling systematic uncertainties as \edit{the statistical errors become…

Strong gravitational lensing is a powerful tool to measure cosmological parameters and to study galaxy evolution mechanisms. However, quantitative strong lensing studies often require mock observations. To capture the full complexity of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 Lyne Van de Vyvere , Dominique Sluse , Sampath Mukherjee , Dandan Xu , Simon Birrer

We obtain the projected mass distributions for two Subaru/Suprime-Cam fields in the southwest region (r\simlt 60') of the Coma cluster (z=0.0236) by weak lensing analysis and detect eight subclump candidates. We quantify the contribution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Nobuhiro Okabe , Yuki Okura , Toshifumi Futamase

This paper aims to quantify how the lowest halo mass that can be detected with galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lensing depends on the quality of the observations and the characteristics of the observed lens systems. Using simulated data,…

Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a powerful probe to study the early universe and various cosmological models. Weak gravitational lensing affects the CMB by changing its power spectrum, but meanwhile, it also carries information about…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-09 Chandra Shekhar Saraf

We present the first step toward deriving cosmological constraints through the abundances of galaxy clusters selected in a $510\,\mathrm{deg}^2$ weak-lensing aperture mass map, constructed with the Year-Three shear catalog from the Hyper…

We present $\texttt{Miko}$, a catalog-to-cosmology pipeline for general flat-sky field-level inference, which provides access to cosmological information beyond the two-point statistics. In the context of weak lensing, we identify several…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-13 Alan Junzhe Zhou , Xiangchong Li , Scott Dodelson , Rachel Mandelbaum

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 estimate the impact of weak lensing by strongly nonlinear cosmological structures on the cosmic microwave background. Accurate calculation of large $\ell$ multipoles requires N-body simulations and ray-tracing schemes with both high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. J. Fullana , J. V. Arnau , R. J. Thacker , H. M. P. Couchman , D. Sáez