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We investigate the cosmological information in higher-order statistics of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing convergence field for a near-term experiment with noise properties similar to the Simons Observatory (SO). Using a fully…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-16 Shu-Fan Chen , J. Colin Hill , Zoltán Haiman

We use Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) observations together with the Red-sequence Cluster Survey (RCS) weak lensing results to derive constraints on a range of cosmological parameters. This particular choice of observations is motivated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Carlo R. Contaldi , Henk Hoekstra , Antony Lewis

The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS) comprises deep multi-colour (u*g'r'i'z') photometry spanning 154 square degrees, with accurate photometric redshifts and shape measurements. We demonstrate that the redshift…

The idea that we live in a Universe undergoing a period of acceleration is a strongly held notion in cosmology. As this can, potentially, be explained with a modification to General Relativity we look at current cosmological data with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Shaun A. Thomas , Filipe B. Abdalla , Jochen Weller

We present weak lensing constraints on the ellipticity of galaxy-scale matter haloes and the galaxy-halo misalignment. Using data from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS), we measure the weighted-average ratio of…

We present a finely-binned tomographic weak lensing analysis of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey, CFHTLenS, mitigating contamination to the signal from the presence of intrinsic galaxy alignments via the simultaneous fit of…

For the first time, we develop a simulation-based model for the Minkowski functionals (MFs) of large-scale structure, which allows us to extract the full information available from the MFs (including both the Gaussian and non-Gaussian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-20 Wei Liu , Enrique Paillas , Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro , Georgios Valogiannis , Wenjuan Fang

We combine measurements of weak gravitational lensing from the CFHTLS-Wide survey, supernovae Ia from CFHT SNLS and CMB anisotropies from WMAP5 to obtain joint constraints on cosmological parameters, in particular, the dark energy equation…

We use weak lensing data from the Hubble Space Telescope COSMOS survey to measure the second- and third-moments of the cosmic shear field, estimated from about 450,000 galaxies with average redshift <z> ~ 1.3. We measure two- and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Elisabetta Semboloni , Tim Schrabback , Ludovic van Waerbeke , Sanaz Vafaei , Jan Hartlap , Stefan Hilbert

Weak gravitational lensing provides a sensitive probe of cosmology by measuring the mass distribution and the geometry of the low redshift universe. We show how an all-sky weak lensing tomographic survey can jointly constrain different sets…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-31 Ivan Debono , Anais Rassat , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara , Thomas D. Kitching

We present MGLenS, a large series of modified gravity lensing simulations tailored for cosmic shear data analyses and forecasts in which cosmological and modified gravity parameters are varied simultaneously. Based on the FORGE and BRIDGE…

We analyse the low--multipole components of the weak-lensing convergence field in a FLRW universe. The low--multipole convergence field, encodes the largest-angle coherent potential gradients, essential for assessment of large-angle…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Albert Bonnefous , Roya Mohayaee

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

Weak Lensing (WL) surveys are reaching unprecedented depths, enabling the investigation of very small angular scales. At these scales, nonlinear gravitational effects lead to higher-order correlations making the matter distribution highly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-01 Divij Sharma , Biwei Dai , Uros Seljak

Peak statistics in weak lensing maps access the non-Gaussian information contained in the large-scale distribution of matter in the Universe. They are therefore a promising complement to two-point and higher-order statistics to constrain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Austin Peel , Chieh-An Lin , Francois Lanusse , Adrienne Leonard , Jean-Luc Starck , Martin Kilbinger

We derived constraints on cosmological parameters using weak lensing peak statistics measured on the $\sim130~{\rm deg}^2$ of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Stripe 82 Survey (CS82). This analysis demonstrates the feasibility of using…

The possibility of detecting weak lensing effects from deep wide field imaging surveys has open new means of probing the large-scale structures of the Universe and measuring cosmological parameters. In this paper we present a systematic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 F. Bernardeau , L. van Waerbeke , Y. Mellier

Upcoming stage 4 surveys, such as the Simons Observatory, LSST, and Euclid, are poised to measure weak gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and galaxies with unprecedented precision. While the power spectrum is the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Jonas Frugte , P. Daniel Meerburg

We present a tomographic cosmological weak lensing analysis of the HST COSMOS Survey. Applying our lensing-optimized data reduction, principal component interpolation for the ACS PSF, and improved modelling of charge-transfer inefficiency,…

We present a simulation-based cosmological analysis using a combination of Gaussian and non-Gaussian statistics of the weak lensing mass (convergence) maps from the first three years (Y3) of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We implement: 1)…