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We present weak-lensing mass measurements of 50 X-ray luminous galaxy clusters at $0.15\le z\le0.3$, based on uniform high quality observations with Suprime-Cam mounted on the 8.2-m Subaru telescope. We pay close attention to possible…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 Nobuhiro Okabe , Graham P. Smith

Recently, a number of methods have emerged to detect galaxy clusters solely through their weak lensing signal. Using the recently-introduced wavelet multi-scale detection method, we focus here on the potential for the use of tomographic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 L. Chappuis , S. Pires , G. W. Pratt , G. Leroy , A. Daurelle , C. Giocoli , C. Carbone

We present the weak lensing methodology applied to our multi-colour imaging survey of X-ray luminous galaxy clusters conducted with the wide field CFH12k camera. This method, which is converting a fully reduced CFH12k image into cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Bardeau , J. -P. Kneib , O. Czoske , G. Soucail , I. Smail , H. Ebeling , G. P. Smith

AIMS: We present a weak lensing search of galaxy clusters in the 4 deg2 of the CFHT Legacy Survey Deep. This work aims at building a mass-selected sample of clusters. METHODS: We use the deep i' band images to perform weak lensing mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Raphael Gavazzi , Genevieve Soucail

We test the precision with which weak lensing data can provide characteristic cluster mass profiles within Cold Dark Matter scenarios. Using a parallel treecode to simulate volumes as large as 500h-1 Mpc with good resolution, we generate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Mary Crone , Fabio Governato , Joachim Stadel , Thomas Quinn

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

Weak lensing is emerging as a powerful observational tool to constrain cosmological models, but is at present limited by an incomplete understanding of many sources of systematic error. Many of these errors are multiplicative and depend on…

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…

Clusters of galaxies can be identified from peaks in weak lensing aperture mass maps constructed from weak lensing shear catalogs. Such purely gravitational cluster selection considerably differs from traditional cluster selections based on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-25 Masamune Oguri , Satoshi Miyazaki

We propose a novel method to reconstruct high-resolution three-dimensional mass maps using data from photometric weak-lensing surveys. We apply an adaptive LASSO algorithm to perform a sparsity-based reconstruction on the assumption that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-03 Xiangchong Li , Naoki Yoshida , Masamune Oguri , Shiro Ikeda , Wentao Luo

We present properties of moderately massive clusters of galaxies detected by the newly developed Hyper Suprime-Cam on the Subaru telescope using weak gravitational lensing. Eight peaks exceeding a S/N ratio of 4.5 are identified on the…

Weak shear maps of the outer regions of clusters have been successfully used to map the distribution of mass at large radii from the cluster center. The typical smoothing lengths employed thus far preclude the systematic study of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Priyamvada Natarajan , Jean-Paul Kneib

We present an efficient and robust approach for extracting clusters of galaxies from weak lensing survey data and measuring their properties. We use simple, physically-motivated cluster models appropriate for such sparse, noisy data, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-07 F. Feroz , P. J. Marshall , M. P. Hobson

We present the result of searching for clusters of galaxies based on weak gravitational lensing analysis of the $\sim 160$~deg$^2$ area surveyed by Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) as a Subaru Strategic Program. HSC is a new prime focus optical…

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

This paper presents the results of a systematic study of projection biases in the Weak Lensing analysis of cosmic shear and the combination of galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing using data collected during the first-year of running…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-27 P. R. V. Chintalapati , G. Gutierrez , M. H. L. S. Wang

We present the results of a weak lensing survey of six high-redshift (z > 0.5), X-ray selected clusters of galaxies. We have obtained ultra-deep R-band images of each cluster with the Keck Telescope, and have measured a weak lensing signal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Clowe , G. Luppino , N. Kaiser , I. Gioia

When extracting the weak lensing shear signal, one may employ either locally normalized or globally normalized shear estimators. The former is the standard approach when estimating cluster masses, while the latter is the more common method…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Eduardo Rozo , Hao-Yi Wu , Fabian Schmidt

Evolution in the mass function of galaxy clusters sensitively traces both the expansion history of the Universe and cosmological structure formation. Robust cluster mass determinations are a key ingredient for a reliable measurement of this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Holger Israel , Thomas Erben , Thomas H. Reiprich , Alexey Vikhlinin , Craig L. Sarazin , Peter Schneider

We test the impact of some systematic errors in weak lensing magnification measurements with the COSMOS 30-band photo-$z$ Survey flux limited to $I_{auto}<25.0$ using correlations of both source galaxy counts and magnitudes. Systematic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-03 E. Gaztanaga , S. J. Schmidt , M. D. Schneider , J. A. Tyson