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We present an analytic method for rapidly forecasting the accuracy of gravitational potential reconstruction possible from measurement of radial peculiar velocities of every galaxy cluster with M > M_th in solid angle \theta^2 and over…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Olivier Doré , Lloyd Knox , Alan Peel

Weak gravitational lensing is the slight distortion of galaxy shapes caused primarily by the gravitational effects of dark matter in the universe. In our work, we seek to invert the weak lensing signal from 2D telescope images to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-22 Brandon Zhao , Aviad Levis , Liam Connor , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Katherine L. Bouman

We discuss a method aiming to use photometric redshifts in lensing clusters to access the population of distant background sources. The amplification provided by gravitational lensing allows to calibrate photometric redshifts 1 to 3…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roser Pello , Jean-Paul Kneib , Micol Bolzonella , Joan-Marc Miralles

We report weak-lensing masses for 51 of the most X-ray luminous galaxy clusters known. This cluster sample, introduced earlier in this series of papers, spans redshifts 0.15 < z_cl < 0.7, and is well suited to calibrate mass proxies for…

The rapid development of 3D technology and computer vision applications have motivated a thrust of methodologies for depth acquisition and estimation. However, most existing hardware and software methods have limited performance due to poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-13 Lee-Kang Liu , Stanley H. Chan , Truong Q. Nguyen

Large-scale structure distorts the images of background galaxies, which allows one to measure directly the projected distribution of dark matter in the universe and determine its power spectrum. Here we address the question of how to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Uros Seljak

Galaxy clusters are considered as excellent probes for cosmology. For that purpose, their mass needs to be measured and their structural properties needs to be understood. We propose a method for galaxy cluster mass reconstruction which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-19 Xinzhong Er , Guoliang Li , Peter Schneider

We explore the accuracy of the clustering-based redshift inference within the MICE2 simulation. This method uses the spatial clustering of galaxies between a spectroscopic reference sample and an unknown sample. The goal of this study is to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 V. Scottez , A. Benoit-Lévy , J. Coupon , O. Ilbert , Y. Mellier

WL measurements have well-known shear estimation biases, which can be partially corrected for with the use of image simulations. We present an analysis of simulated images that mimic HST/ACS observations of high-redshift galaxy clusters,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 B. Hernandez-Martin , T. Schrabback , H. Hoekstra , N. Martinet , J. Hlavacek-Larrondo , L. E. Bleem , M. D. Gladders , B. Stalder , A. A. Stark , M. Bayliss

We study the accuracy with which weak lensing measurements could be made from a future space-based survey, predicting the subsequent precisions of 3-dimensional dark matter maps, projected 2-dimensional dark matter maps, and mass-selected…

The maximum-entropy method is applied to the problem of reconstructing the projected mass density of a galaxy cluster using its gravitational lensing effects on background galaxies. We demonstrate the method by reconstructing the mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. L. Bridle , M. P. Hobson , A. N. Lasenby , Richard Saunders

We investigate the detection prospects for gravitational lensing of three-dimensional maps from upcoming line intensity surveys, focusing in particular on the impact of gravitational nonlinearities on standard quadratic lensing estimators.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Simon Foreman , P. Daniel Meerburg , Alexander van Engelen , Joel Meyers

Galaxy clusters are powerful probes of astrophysics and cosmology through gravitational lensing: the clusters' mass, dominated by 85% dark matter, distorts background light. Yet, mass reconstruction lacks the scalability and large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Diego Royo , Brandon Zhao , Adolfo Muñoz , Diego Gutierrez , Katherine L. Bouman

Gaussian Splatting (GS) has gained attention as a fast and effective method for novel view synthesis. It has also been applied to 3D reconstruction using multi-view images and can achieve fast and accurate 3D reconstruction. However, GS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Natsuki Takama , Shintaro Ito , Koichi Ito , Hwann-Tzong Chen , Takafumi Aoki

Accurate 3D reconstruction of vehicles is vital for applications such as vehicle inspection, predictive maintenance, and urban planning. Existing methods like Neural Radiance Fields and Gaussian Splatting have shown impressive results but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Davide Di Nucci , Matteo Tomei , Guido Borghi , Luca Ciuffreda , Roberto Vezzani , Rita Cucchiara

We present a novel approach for reconstructing the projected mass distribution of clusters of galaxies from sparse and noisy weak gravitational lensing shear data. The reconstructions are regularised using knowledge gained from numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-24 Phil Marshall

We present a survey of the cosmological applications of the next generation of weak lensing surveys, paying special attention to the computational challenges presented by the number of galaxies, $N_{gal} ~$ 10$^{5}$. We focus on optimal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Padmanabhan , U. Seljak , U. L. Pen

We present weak lensing mass reconstructions for the 20 high-redshift clusters i n the ESO Distant Cluster Survey. The weak lensing analysis was performed on deep, 3-color optical images taken with VLT/FORS2, using a composite galaxy…

We have developed a new geometrical method for identifying and reconstructing a homogeneous and highly complete set of galaxy groups in the next generation of deep, flux-limited redshift surveys. Our method combines information from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Christian Marinoni , Marc Davis , Jeffrey A. Newman , Alison L. Coil

The COSMOS field has been the subject of a wide range of observations, with a number of studies focusing on reconstructing the 3D dark matter density field. Typically, these studies have focused on one given method or tracer. In this paper,…