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We present weak lensing mass estimates of seven shear-selected galaxy cluster candidates from the Deep Lens Survey. The clusters were previously identified as mass peaks in convergence maps of 8.6 sq. deg of R band imaging, and followed up…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-17 Alexandra Abate , D. Wittman , V. E. Margoniner , S. L. Bridle , Perry Gee , J. Anthony Tyson , Ian P. Dell Antonio

Cluster scaling relations are key ingredients in cluster abundance-based cosmological studies. In optical cluster cosmology, where clusters are detected through their richness, cluster-weak gravitational lensing has proven to be a powerful…

We present optimized source galaxy selection schemes for measuring cluster weak lensing (WL) mass profiles unaffected by cluster member dilution from the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam Strategic Survey Program (HSC-SSP). The ongoing HSC-SSP…

We use dense redshift surveys of nine galaxy clusters at $z\sim0.2$ to compare the galaxy distribution in each system with the projected matter distribution from weak lensing. By combining 2087 new MMT/Hectospec redshifts and the data in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Ho Seong Hwang , Margaret J. Geller , Antonaldo Diaferio , Kenneth J. Rines , H. Jabran Zahid

The morphology of galaxy clusters reflects the epoch at which they formed and hence depends on the value of the mean cosmological density, Omega. Recent studies have shown that the distribution of dark matter in clusters can be mapped from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Gillian Wilson , Shaun Cole , Carlos S. Frenk

The convergence peaks, constructed from galaxy shape measurement in weak lensing, is a powerful probe of cosmology as the peaks can be connected with the underlined dark matter haloes. However the capability of convergence peak statistic is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Chengliang Wei , Guoliang Li , Xi Kang , Xiangkun Liu , Zuhui Fan , Shuo Yuan , Chuzhong Pan

This paper presents the results of a systematic study of projection biases in the Weak Lensing analysis of cosmic shear and the combination of galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing using data collected during the first-year of running…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-27 P. R. V. Chintalapati , G. Gutierrez , M. H. L. S. Wang

Weak gravitational lensing (WL) causes distortions of galaxy images and probes massive structures on large scales, allowing us to understand the late-time evolution of the Universe. One way to extract the cosmological information from WL is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Chieh-An Lin

The clustering of matter on cosmological scales is an essential probe for studying the physical origin and composition of our Universe. To date, most of the direct studies have focused on shear-shear weak lensing correlations, but it is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-26 Tobias Baldauf , Robert E. Smith , Uros Seljak , Rachel Mandelbaum

We present a maximum-likelihood analysis of galaxy-galaxy lensing effects in galaxy clusters and in the field. The aim is to determine the accuracy and robustness of constraints that can be obtained on galaxy halo properties in both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Marceau Limousin , Jean Paul Kneib , Priyamvada Natarajan

We describe and present initial results of a weak lensing survey of nearby ($\rm{z}\lesssim0.1$) galaxy clusters in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). In this first study, galaxy clusters are selected from the SDSS spectroscopic galaxy…

We present a detailed investigation into which properties of CDM halos make them effective strong gravitational lenses. Strong lensing cross sections of 878 clusters from an N-body simulation are measured by ray tracing through 13,594…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Joseph F. Hennawi , Neal Dalal , Paul Bode , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

We present a lensing study of 42 galaxy clusters imaged in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) commissioning data. Cluster candidates are selected optically from SDSS imaging data and confirmed for this study by matching to X-ray sources found…

This is the third of a series of papers of low X-ray luminosity galaxy clusters. In this work we present the weak lensing analysis of eight clusters, based on observations obtained with the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph in the $g'$, $r'$…

We propose that observations of super-massive galaxies contain cosmological constraining power similar to conventional cluster cosmology, and we provide promising indications that the associated systematic errors are comparably easier to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-07 Enia Xhakaj , Alexie Leauthaud , Johannes Lange , Elisabeth Krause , Andrew Hearin , Song Huang , Risa H. Wechsler , Sven Heydenreich

We present a survey of mass profiles and mass-to-light ratios of eight typical galaxy clusters at a common redshift (z ~ 0.2). We use weak gravitational lensing as a probe because it is unique in avoiding any assumptions about the dynamical…

Large-scale structure projections are an obstacle in converting the shear signal of clusters detected in weak-lensing maps into virial masses. However, this step is not necessary for constraining cosmology with the shear-peak abundance, if…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Laura Marian , Robert E. Smith , Gary M. Bernstein

We develop a novel method of measuring the lensing distortion profiles of clusters with stacking the scaled amplitudes of background galaxy ellipticities as a function of the scaled centric radius according to the NFW prediction of each…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 Hiroko Niikura , Masahiro Takada , Nobuhiro Okabe , Rossella Martino , Ryuichi Takahashi

We present a joint analysis of galaxy clustering and galaxy--galaxy lensing measurements from BOSS galaxies using a simulation-based emulation method combined with a halo occupation distribution model. Our emulators are constructed with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Wenhao Gao , Zhenjie Liu , Zhongxu Zhai , Jeremy L. Tinker , Jun Zhang , Arka Banerjee , Joseph DeRose , Hong Guo , Yao-Yuan Mao , Kate Storey-Fisher , Risa H. Wechsler

Galaxy clusters are usually detected in blind optical surveys via suitable filtering methods. We present an optimal matched filter which maximizes their signal-to-noise ratio by taking advantage of the knowledge we have of their intrinsic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Fabio Bellagamba , Matteo Maturi , Takashi Hamana , Massimo Meneghetti , Satoshi Miyazaki , Lauro Moscardini