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The unknown intrinsic shape of source galaxies is one of the largest uncertainties of weak gravitational lensing (WL). It results in the so-called shape noise at the level of $\sigma_\epsilon^{\mathrm{WL}} \approx 0.26$, whereas the shear…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-02 Pranjal R. S. , Elisabeth Krause , Hung-Jin Huang , Eric Huff , Jiachuan Xu , Tim Eifler , Spencer Everett

Kinematic lensing (KL) is a new cosmological measurement technique that combines traditional weak lensing (WL) shape measurements of disc galaxies with their kinematic information. Using the Tully-Fisher relation KL breaks the degeneracy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-28 Jiachuan Xu , Tim Eifler , Eric Huff , Pranjal R. S. , Hung-Jin Huang , Spencer Everett , Elisabeth Krause

We present a new approach to measuring cosmic shear: the one-component kinematic lensing (KL) method. This technique provides a simplified implementation of KL that reduces shape noise in weak lensing (WL) by combining kinematic information…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-25 Yu-Hsiu Huang , Elisabeth Krause , Tim Eifler , Gary Bernstein , Jiachuan Xu , Eric Huff , Pranjal R. S

Kinematic lensing (KL) is a new weak lensing technique that reduces shape noise for disk galaxies by including spectroscopically measured galaxy kinematics in addition to photometrically measured galaxy shapes. Since KL utilizes the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-09 Yu-Hsiu Huang , Elisabeth Krause , Jiachuan Xu , Tim Eifler , Pranjal R. S. , Eric Huff

We present a science case to perform high-redshift cosmic shear surveys for cosmology with next-generation spectroscopic instruments, such as the proposed MegaMapper and Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope. We argue that by using the novel…

We present the first detection of a cluster lensing signal with `Kinematic Lensing' (KL), a novel weak lensing method that combines photometry, spectroscopy, and the Tully-Fisher relation to enable shear measurements with individual source…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-28 Pranjal R. S. , Eric Huff , Elisabeth Krause , Tim Eifler , Spencer Everett , Yu-Hsiu Huang , Jiachuan Xu

We explore the science prospects of a 14,000 deg$^2$ Kinematic Lensing (KL) survey with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and overlapping imaging surveys. KL infers the cosmic shear signal by jointly forward modeling the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-31 Jiachuan Xu , Tim Eifler , Eason Wang , Elisabeth Krause , Spencer Everett , Eric Huff , Pranjal R. S. , Yu-Hsiu Huang

Kinematic weak lensing describes the distortion of a galaxy's projected velocity field due to lensing shear, an effect recently reported for the first time by Gurri et al. based on a sample of 18 galaxies at $z \sim 0.1$. In this paper, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Brian DiGiorgio , Kevin Bundy , Kyle B. Westfall , Alexie Leauthaud , David Stark

We introduce the kinematic lensing ratio (KiLeR), a geometric dark-energy probe from weak lensing. Combining shear ratios with intrinsic galaxy shapes inferred from kinematics, KiLeR naturally mitigates most first-order lensing systematics,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-30 Qinxun Li

Weak gravitational lensing has the potential to constrain cosmological parameters to high precision. However, as shown by the Shear TEsting Programmes (STEP) and GRavitational lEnsing Accuracy Testing (GREAT) Challenges, measuring galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Tomasz Kacprzak , Joe Zuntz , Barnaby Rowe , Sarah Bridle , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara , Lisa Voigt , Michael Hirsch

This paper presents the first application of 3D cosmic shear to a wide-field weak lensing survey. 3D cosmic shear is a technique that analyses weak lensing in three dimensions using a spherical harmonic approach, and does not bin data in…

Standard cosmological weak lensing analyses using cosmic shear are inevitably sensitive to small-scale, non-linear clustering from low-redshift structures. The need to adequately model the clustering of matter on this non-linear regime,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-25 Giulia Piccirilli , Matteo Zennaro , Carlos García-García , David Alonso

Weak lensing by large-scale structure allows a direct measure of the dark matter distribution. We have used parallel images taken with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on the Hubble Space Telescope to measure weak lensing, or…

Here we present a number of improvements to weak lensing 3D power spectrum analysis, 3D cosmic shear, that uses the shape and redshift information of every galaxy to constrain cosmological parameters. We show how photometric redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 T. D. Kitching , A. F. Heavens , L. Miller

Statistical weak lensing by large-scale structure -- cosmic shear -- is a promising cosmological tool, which has motivated the design of several large upcoming surveys. Here, we present a measurement of cosmic shear using coadded Sloan…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-15 Eric M. Huff , Tim Eifler , Christopher M. Hirata , Rachel Mandelbaum , David Schlegel , Uros Seljak

We quantify the performance of mass mapping techniques on mock imaging and gravitational lensing data of galaxy clusters. The optimum method depends upon the scientific goal. We assess measurements of clusters' radial density profiles,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-29 Sut-Ieng Tam , Richard Massey , Mathilde Jauzac , Andrew Robertson

We explore strategies to extract cosmological constraints from a joint analysis of cosmic shear, galaxy-galaxy lensing, galaxy clustering, cluster number counts and cluster weak lensing. We utilize the CosmoLike software to simulate results…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 Elisabeth Krause , Tim Eifler

In order to reach the required performance of Stage-III and IV weak lensing surveys, cosmic shear measurements have to rely on external simulations to calibrate residual biases. Over the years, several techniques have been developed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-11 G. Congedo , A. N. Taylor

The high sensitivity of the new generation of radio telescopes such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will allow cosmological weak lensing measurements at radio wavelengths that are competitive with optical surveys. We present an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-23 Marzia Rivi , Lance Miller , Sphesihle Makhathini , Filipe Batoni Abdalla

Weak gravitational lensing provides a unique method to map directly the distribution of dark matter in the universe and to measure cosmological parameters. This cosmic-shear technique is based on the measurement of the weak distortions that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alexandre Refregier
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