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We present the first scaling relation between weak-lensing galaxy cluster mass, $M_{WL}$, and near-infrared luminosity, $L_K$. Our results are based on 17 clusters observed with wide-field instruments on Subaru, the United Kingdom Infrared…

In hierarchical models, density fluctuations on different scales are correlated. This induces correlations between dark halo masses, their formation histories, and their larger-scale environments. In turn, this produces a correlation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ummi Abbas , Ravi K. Sheth

Galaxy-galaxy lensing measures the mean excess surface density DS(r) around a sample of lensing galaxies. We develop a method for combining DS(r) with the galaxy correlation function xi_gg(r) to constrain Omega_m and sigma_8, going beyond…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jaiyul Yoo , Jeremy L. Tinker , David H. Weinberg , Zheng Zheng , Neal Katz , Romeel Davé

Recent works have shown that weak lensing magnification must be included in upcoming large-scale structure analyses, such as for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), to avoid biasing the cosmological…

Weak shear maps of the outer regions of clusters have been successfully used to map the distribution of mass at large radii from the cluster center. The typical smoothing lengths employed thus far preclude the systematic study of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Priyamvada Natarajan , Jean-Paul Kneib

We present a model for the power spectrum of the density field of galaxies weighted by their star formation rate. This weighting is relevant in line-intensity mapping (LIM) when the observed line luminosity is strongly correlated with star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-22 Rui Lan Jun , Tom Theuns , Kana Moriwaki , Sownak Bose

We derive inner dark matter halo density profiles for a sample of 165 low-mass galaxies using rotation curves obtained from high-quality, long-slit optical spectra assuming minimal disks and spherical symmetry. For $\rho(r) \sim…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kristine Spekkens , Riccardo Giovanelli , Martha P. Haynes

We perform a joint analysis of the abundance, the clustering and the galaxy-galaxy lensing signal of galaxies measured from Data Release 11 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (SDSS III-BOSS) in our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Surhud More , Hironao Miyatake , Rachel Mandelbaum , Masahiro Takada , David Spergel , Joel Brownstein , Donald P. Schneider

Strong lensing by massive galaxies probes their mass distribution, thus providing a window to study their internal structure, i.e., the distributions of luminous and dark matter. In this paper, we investigate the relation between the…

The detection of microlensing has opened the way for the development of new methods in galactic astronomy. This series of papers investigates what microlensing can teach us about the structure and shape of the dark halo. In this paper we…

The halo-galaxy lensing correlation function or the average tangential shear profile over sampled halos is a very powerful means of measuring the halo masses, the mass profile, and the halo-mass correlation function of very large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 Roland de Putter , Masahiro Takada

We explore the weak lensing effect by line-of-sight halos and sub-halos with a mass of M < 10^7 solar mass in QSO-galaxy strong lens systems with quadruple images in a concordant LCDM universe. Using a polynomially fitted non-linear power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 Kaiki Taro Inoue , Ryuichi Takahashi

Context: Understanding the evolution of the dark matter halos of galaxies after they become part of a cluster is essential for understanding the evolution of these satellite galaxies. Aims: We investigate the potential of galaxy-galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 E. Pastor Mira , S. Hilbert , J. Hartlap , P. Schneider

Weak gravitational lensing is one of the key probes of the cosmological model, dark energy, and dark matter, providing insight into both the cosmic expansion history and large scale structure growth history. Taking into account a broad…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-12 Sudeep Das , Roland de Putter , Eric V. Linder , Reiko Nakajima

The intrinsic alignment (IA) of galaxies is a major astrophysical contaminant to weak gravitational lensing measurements, and the study of its dependence on galaxy properties helps provide meaningful physical priors that aid cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-16 Christos Georgiou , Nora Elisa Chisari , Maciej Bilicki , Francesco La Barbera , Nicola R. Napolitano , Nivya Roy , Crescenzo Tortora

Forthcoming cosmological imaging surveys, such as the Rubin Observatory LSST, require large-scale simulations encompassing realistic galaxy populations for a variety of scientific applications. Of particular concern is the phenomenon of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-30 Yesukhei Jagvaral , Francois Lanusse , Rachel Mandelbaum

Subject of this paper are intrinsic ellipticity correlations between galaxies, their statistical properties, their observability with future surveys and their interference with weak gravitational lensing measurements. Using an angular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-25 Bjoern Malte Schaefer , Philipp M. Merkel

We investigate the effect of weak gravitational lensing in the limit of small angular scales where projected galaxy clustering is strongly nonlinear. This is the regime likely to be probed by future weak lensing surveys. We use…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dipak Munshi , Peter Coles

We use the Millennium Simulation to measure the cross-correlation between halo centres and mass (or equivalently the average density profiles of dark haloes) in a LCDM cosmology. We present results for radii in the range 10 kpc/h < r < 30…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Hayashi , S. D. M. White

We present the results of a study of the average mass profile around galaxies using weak gravitational lensing. We use 45.5 deg^2 of R_C band imaging data from the Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS) and define a sample of 1.2\times 10^5…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Henk Hoekstra , Howard K. C. Yee , Michael D. Gladders