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We present a Bayesian reconstruction algorithm that infers the three-dimensional large-scale matter distribution from the weak gravitational lensing effects measured in the image shapes of galaxies. The algorithm is designed to also work…

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Weak lensing is an important technique to determine the masses of galaxy groups. However, the distortion imprint on the shape of the background galaxies is affected by all the mass content along the line-of-sight. Using COSMOS shear mock…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 P. F. Spinelli , S. Seitz , M. Lerchster , F. Brimioulle , A. Finoguenov

As the volume and quality of modern galaxy surveys increase, so does the difficulty of measuring the cosmological signal imprinted in galaxy shapes. Weak gravitational lensing sourced by the most massive structures in the Universe generates…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-04 Benjamin Remy , Francois Lanusse , Jean-Luc Starck

We describe a weak lensing view of the downsizing of star forming galaxies based on cross correlating a weak lensing ($\kappa$) map with a predicted map constructed from a redshift survey. Moderately deep and high resolution images with…

We present the first detection of weak gravitational lensing around spectroscopically confirmed dwarf galaxies, using the large overlap between DESI DR1 spectroscopic data and DECADE/DES weak lensing catalogs. A clean dwarf galaxy sample…

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

We present a comprehensive full-sky 3-dimensional analysis of the weak-lensing fields and their corresponding power spectra. Using the formalism of spin-weight spherical harmonics and spherical Bessel functions, we relate the two-point…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. G. Castro , A. F. Heavens , T. D. Kitching

We explore the dependence of weak lensing phenomena on the background cosmology. We first generalise the relation between $P_\psi(\omega)$, the angular power spectrum of the distortion, and the power spectrum of density fluctuations to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Nick Kaiser

In this paper we present weak lensing observations of the fields around 8 z~1 luminous radio sources. These data are searched for the lensing signatures of clusters that are either physically associated with the radio objects, or are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Richard G. Bower , Ian Smail

The majority of low-mass ($\log_{10} M_*/M_{\odot}=9-10$) galaxies at high redshift ($z>1$) appear elongated in projection. We use JWST-CEERS observations to explore the role of gravitational lensing in this puzzle. The typical…

The sensitivity and wide area reached by ongoing and future wide-field optical surveys allows for the detection of an increasing number of galaxy clusters uniquely through their weak lensing (WL) signal. This motivates the development of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-18 G. Leroy , S. Pires , G. W. Pratt , C. Giocoli

We use measurements of weak gravitational shear around a sample of massive galaxy clusters at z = 0.3 to constrain their average radial density profile. Our results are consistent with the density profiles of CDM halos in numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Dahle

Sample selection is a necessary preparation for weak lensing measurement. It is well-known that selection itself may introduce bias in the measured shear signal. Using image simulation and the Fourier_Quad shear measurement pipeline, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-04 Hekun Li , Jun Zhang , Dezi Liu , Wentao Luo , Jiajun Zhang , Fuyu Dong , Zhi Shen , Haoran Wang

We present a new method to measure the redshift-dependent galaxy bias by combining information from the galaxy density field and the weak lensing field. This method is based on Amara et al. (2012), where they use the galaxy density field to…

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

The weak distortions produced by gravitational lensing in the images of background galaxies provide a method to measure directly the distribution of mass in the universe. However this technique requires high precision measurements of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jason Rhodes , Alexandre Refregier , Ed Groth

We investigate the extent to which cosmic size magnification may be used to com- plement cosmic shear in weak gravitational lensing surveys, with a view to obtaining high-precision estimates of cosmological parameters. Using simulated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Biuse Casaponsa , Alan F. Heavens , Tom D. Kitching , Lance Miller , Rita Belén Barreiro , Enrique Martínez-Gonzalez

Convergence maps of the integrated matter distribution are a key science result from weak gravitational lensing surveys. To date, recovering convergence maps has been performed using a planar approximation of the celestial sphere. However,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-16 Christopher G. R. Wallis , Matthew A. Price , Jason D. McEwen , Thomas D. Kitching , Boris Leistedt , Antoine Plouviez

We study the ability of weak lensing surveys to detect galaxy clusters and constrain cosmological parameters, in particular the equation of state of dark energy. There are two major sources of noise for weak lensing cluster measurements:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Laura Marian , Gary M. Bernstein

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