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Weak gravitational lensing is considered to be one of the most powerful tools to study the mass and the mass distribution of galaxy clusters. However, weak lensing mass reconstructions are plagued by the so-called mass-sheet degeneracy--the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-16 M. Bradac , M. Lombardi , P. Schneider

We present the first reconstruction of dark matter maps from weak lensing observational data using deep learning. We train a convolution neural network (CNN) with a Unet based architecture on over $3.6\times10^5$ simulated data realizations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-26 Niall Jeffrey , François Lanusse , Ofer Lahav , Jean-Luc Starck

The detection and characterization of filamentary structures in the cosmic web allows cosmologists to constrain parameters that dictates the evolution of the Universe. While many filament estimators have been proposed, they generally lack…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Yen-Chi Chen , Shirley Ho , Peter E. Freeman , Christopher R. Genovese , Larry Wasserman

We present a novel method to recontruct the mass distribution of galaxy clusters from their gravitational lens effect on background galaxies. The method is based on a least-chisquare fit of the two-dimensional gravitational cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Matthias Bartelmann , Ramesh Narayan , Stella Seitz , Peter Schneider

We propose a new mass-mapping algorithm, specifically designed to recover small-scale information from a combination of gravitational shear and flexion. Including flexion allows us to supplement the shear on small scales in order to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Francois Lanusse , Jean-Luc Starck , Adrienne Leonard , Sandrine Pires

The lensing information provided by multiple images, arclets, and statistical distortions can all be formulated as linear constraints on the arrival-time surface, and hence on the mass distribution. This reduces cluster lens reconstruction…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Prasenjit Saha , Liliya L. R. Williams , Hanadi AbdelSalam

We assess a neural network (NN) method for reconstructing 3D cosmological density and velocity fields (target) from discrete and incomplete galaxy distributions (input). We employ second-order Lagrangian Perturbation Theory to generate a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-02 Punyakoti Ganeshaiah Veena , Robert Lilow , Adi Nusser

Weak gravitational lensing studies of clusters of galaxies provide complimentary information to that from X-ray data; the measured signal depends only on the cluster's projected mass, independent of dynamical assumptions. Here we apply a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. J. Marshall

We investigate the inclusion of clustering maps in a weak lensing Minkowski functional (MF) analysis of DES-like and LSST-like simulations to constrain cosmological parameters. The standard 3x2pt approach to lensing and clustering data uses…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-25 Nisha Grewal , Joe Zuntz , Tilman Tröster , Alexandra Amon

We study the potential of weak lensing surveys to detect clusters of galaxies, using a fast Particle Mesh cosmological N-body simulation algorithm specifically tailored to investigate the statistics of these mass-selected clusters. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Joseph F. Hennawi , David N. Spergel

The clustering of galaxy clusters is a powerful cosmological tool, which can help to break degeneracies between parameters when combined with other cosmological observables. We aim to demonstrate its potential in constraining cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-16 Alessandra Fumagalli , Matteo Costanzi , Alexandro Saro , Tiago Castro , Stefano Borgani

In \citep{Qin+}, we attempted to reconstruct the weak lensing convergence map $\hat{\kappa}$ from cosmic magnification by linearly weighting the DECaLS galaxy overdensities in different magnitude bins of $grz$ photometry bands. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-03 Jian Qin , Pengjie Zhang , Yu Yu , Haojie Xu , Ji Yao , Yuan Shi , Huanyuan Shan

As ground-based all-sky astronomical surveys will gather millions of images in the coming years, a critical requirement emerges for the development of fast deconvolution algorithms capable of efficiently improving the spatial resolution of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-31 Utsav Akhaury , Pascale Jablonka , Jean-Luc Starck , Frédéric Courbin

There are only two methods for estimating the mass distribution in the outer regions of galaxy clusters, where virial equilibrium does not hold: weak gravitational lensing and identification of caustics in redshift space. For the first…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Antonaldo Diaferio , Margaret J. Geller , Kenneth J. Rines

The projected gravitational potential of galaxy clusters is reflected in both their X-ray emission and their imprint on the images of background sources due to their gravitational lensing effects. Since these projections of the potential…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthias Bartelmann , Tsafrir S. Kolatt

Analysing the weak lensing distortions of the images of faint background galaxies provides a means to constrain the average mass distribution of cluster galaxies and potentially to test the extent of their dark matter haloes as a function…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Bernhard Geiger , Peter Schneider

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…

Measurement of the gravitational distortion of images of distant galaxies is rapidly becoming established as a powerful probe of the dark mass distribution in clusters of galaxies. With the advent of large mosaics of CCD's these methods…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nick Kaiser , Gordon Squires , Greg Fahlman , David Woods , Tom Broadhurst

We infer gravitational lensing shear and convergence fields from galaxy ellipticity catalogs under a spatial process prior for the lensing potential. We demonstrate the performance of our algorithm with simulated Gaussian-distributed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 Michael D. Schneider , Karen Y. Ng , William A. Dawson , Philip J. Marshall , Joshua Meyers , Deborah J. Bard

We apply a mass reconstruction technique to simulated large-scale structure gravitational distortion maps, from 2.5' to 10 degree scales, for different cosmological scenarii. The projected mass is reconstructed using a non-parametric least…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Van Waerbeke , F. Bernardeau , Y. Mellier