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Weak gravitational lensing has emerged as a powerful tool for investigating the matter distribution in the Universe and how it has evolved over cosmic time. The Wide Field Instrument (WFI) on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-08 Katherine Laliotis , Christopher M. Hirata , Emily Macbeth , Kaili Cao

Weak gravitational lensing is one of the most promising cosmological probes to constrain dark matter, dark energy, and the nature of gravity at cosmic scales. Intrinsic alignments (IAs) of galaxies have been recognized as one of the most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-25 Eske M. Pedersen , Ji Yao , Mustapha Ishak , Pengjie Zhang

We present a method to implement the idea of Jain & Taylor to constrain cosmological parameters with weak gravitational lensing. Photometric redshift information on foreground galaxies is used to produce templates of the mass structure at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. M. Bernstein , B. Jain

Weak lensing alters the size of images with a similar magnitude to the distortion due to shear. Galaxy size probes the convergence field, and shape the shear field, both of which contain cosmological information. We show the gains expected…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Alan Heavens , Justin Alsing , Andrew Jaffe

The weak gravitational lensing distortion of distant galaxy images (defined as sources) probes the projected large-scale matter distribution in the Universe. To improve quality in the 3D mass mapping using 3D-lensing, we combine the lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Patrick Simon

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

Weak lensing by large-scale structure is an invaluable cosmological tool given that most of the energy density of the concordance cosmology is invisible. Several large ground-based imaging surveys will attempt to measure this effect over…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 Eric M. Huff , Christopher M. Hirata , Rachel Mandelbaum , David Schlegel , Uros Seljak , Robert H. Lupton

Gravitational lensing causes background galaxy images to become aligned, and the statistical characteristics of the image alignments can then be used to constrain the power spectrum of mass fluctuations. Analyses of gravitational lensing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 A. F. Heavens

In recent years, there has been a proliferation of wide-field sky surveys to search for a variety of transient objects. Using relatively short focal lengths, the optics of these systems produce undersampled stellar images often marred by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fang Yuan , Carl W. Akerlof

Measuring dark matter substructure within galaxy cluster haloes is a fundamental probe of the Lambda-CDM model of structure formation. Gravitational lensing is a technique for measuring the total mass distribution which is independent of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-17 Benjamin Cain , Paul L. Schechter , M. W. Bautz

We investigate the performance of the Metacalibration shear calibration framework using simulated imaging data for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) reference High-Latitude Imaging Survey (HLIS). The weak lensing program of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-28 Masaya Yamamoto , M. A. Troxel , Mike Jarvis , Rachel Mandelbaum , Christopher Hirata , Heyang Long , Ami Choi , Tianqing Zhang

We investigate the cosmological constraining power of combined weak galaxy lensing and galaxy clustering probes, i.e. $3\times2$-point analyses, assuming flexible models for redshift uncertainty, and Lagrangian perturbation theory and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 Joseph DeRose , Noah Weaverdyck , Martin White , Shi-Fan Chen , David Schlegel , Anže Slosar

Obtaining accurately calibrated redshift distributions of photometric samples is one of the great challenges in photometric surveys like LSST, Euclid, HSC, KiDS, and DES. We present an inference methodology that combines the redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-09 M. M. Rau , C. B. Morrison , S. J. Schmidt , S. Wilson , R. Mandelbaum , Y. Y. Mao

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…

Weak gravitational lensing provides a unique method to map directly the dark matter in the Universe. The majority of lensing analyses uses the two-point statistics of the cosmic shear field to constrain the cosmological model yielding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 S. Pires , J. -L. Starck , A. Amara , A. Refregier , R. Teyssier

Weak gravitational lensing (WL) peak statistics capture cosmic non-linear structures and can provide additional cosmological information complementary to cosmic shear two-point correlation analyses. They have been applied to different WL…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Tianyu Zhang , Xiangkun Liu , Ziwei Li , Chengliang Wei , Guoliang Li , Yu Luo , Xi Kang , Zuhui Fan

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

Weak gravitational lensing, the deflection of light by mass, is one of the best tools to constrain the growth of cosmic structure with time and reveal the nature of dark energy. I discuss the sources of systematic uncertainty in weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Rachel Mandelbaum