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Wide-Field Lensing Mass Maps from DES Science Verification Data: Methodology and Detailed Analysis

Weak gravitational lensing allows one to reconstruct the spatial distribution of the projected mass density across the sky. These "mass maps" provide a powerful tool for studying cosmology as they probe both luminous and dark matter. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-21 V. Vikram , C. Chang , B. Jain , D. Bacon , A. Amara , M. R. Becker , G. Bernstein , C. Bonnett , S. Bridle , D. Brout , M. Busha , J. Frieman , E. Gaztanaga , W. Hartley , M. Jarvis , T. Kacprzak , A. Kovacs , O. Lahav , B. Leistedt , H. Lin , P. Melchior , H. Peiris , E. Rozo , E. Rykoff , C. Sanchez , E. Sheldon , M. A. Troxel , R. Wechsler , J. Zuntz , T. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , R. Armstrong , M. Banerji , A. H. Bauer , A. Benoit-Levy , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , D. Capozzi , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , F. J. Castander , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , J. Estrada , A. E. Evrard , A. Fausti Neto , E. Fernandez , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , D. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , K. Honscheid , D. James , S. Kent , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , T. S. Li , M. A. G. Maia , M. Makler , M. March , J. Marshall , P. Martini , K. W. Merritt , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , E. Neilsen , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , R. Ogando , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , I. Sevilla , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , D. Thomas , A. R. Walker , J. Weller

Weak-lensing mass calibration of redMaPPer galaxy clusters in Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data

We use weak-lensing shear measurements to determine the mean mass of optically selected galaxy clusters in Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data. In a blinded analysis, we split the sample of more than 8,000 redMaPPer clusters into…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 P. Melchior , D. Gruen , T. McClintock , T. N. Varga , E. Sheldon , E. Rozo , A. Amara , M. R. Becker , B. A. Benson , A. Bermeo , S. L. Bridle , J. Clampitt , J. P. Dietrich , W. G. Hartley , D. Hollowood , B. Jain , M. Jarvis , T. Jeltema , T. Kacprzak , N. MacCrann , E. S. Rykoff , A. Saro , E. Suchyta , M. A. Troxel , J. Zuntz , C. Bonnett , A. A. Plazas , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , J. Annis , A. Benoit-Lévy , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , S. Desai , T. F. Eifler , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , D. Kirk , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , P. Martini , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. C. Nichol , R. Ogando , A. K. Romer , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , A. R. Walker , J. Weller , Y. Zhang

DECADE+DES Y3 Weak Lensing Mass Map: A 13,000 deg$^2$ View of Cosmic Structure from 270 Million Galaxies

We present the largest galaxy weak lensing mass map of the late-time Universe, reconstructed from 270 million galaxies in the DECADE and DES Year 3 datasets, covering 13,000 square degrees. We validate the map through systematic tests…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-05 M. Gatti , D. Anbajagane , C. Chang , D. J. Bacon , J. Prat , M. Adamow , A. Alarcon , M. R. Becker , J. A. Carballo-Bello , N. Chicoine , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , P. S. Ferguson , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , K. Herron , N. Jeffrey , D. J. James , A. Kovács , C. E. Martínez-Vázquez , P. Massana , S. Mau , J. McCullough , G. E. Medina , B. Mutlu-Pakdil , N. E. D. Noël , A. B. Pace , G. Pollina , A. H. Riley , D. J. Sand , L. F. Secco , G. S. Stringfellow , D. Suson , C. Y. Tan , R. Teixeira , E. J. Tollerud , M. A. Troxel , L. Whiteway , A. Zenteno , Z. Zhang

Weak Lensing Measurements of 42 SDSS/RASS Galaxy Clusters

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Erin Scott Sheldon , James Annis , Hans Bohringer , Philippe Fischer , Joshua A. Frieman , Michael Joffre , David Johnston , Timothy A. McKay , Christopher Miller , Robert C. Nichol , Albert Stebbins , Wolfgang Voges , Scott F. Anderson , Neta A. Bahcall , J. Brinkmann , Robert Brunner , Istvan Csabai , Masataka Fukugita , G. S. Hennessy , Zeljko Ivezic , Robert H. Lupton , Jeffrey A. Munn , Jeffrey R. Pier , Donald G. York

Comparing Dense Galaxy Cluster Redshift Surveys with Weak Lensing Maps

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

Measuring weak lensing masses on individual clusters

We present weak lensing mass estimates for a sample of 458 galaxy clusters from the redMaPPer Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR8 catalogue using Hyper Suprime-Cam weak lensing data. We develop a method to quickly estimate cluster masses from weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Calum Murray , James G. Bartlett , Emmanuel Artis , Jean-Baptiste Melin

Mass and galaxy distributions of four massive galaxy clusters from Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data

We measure the weak-lensing masses and galaxy distributions of four massive galaxy clusters observed during the Science Verification phase of the Dark Energy Survey. This pathfinder study is meant to 1) validate the DECam imager for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-12 P. Melchior , E. Suchyta , E. Huff , M. Hirsch , T. Kacprzak , E. Rykoff , D. Gruen , R. Armstrong , D. Bacon , K. Bechtol , G. M. Bernstein , S. Bridle , J. Clampitt , K. Honscheid , B. Jain , S. Jouvel , E. Krause , H. Lin , N. MacCrann , K. Patton , A. Plazas , B. Rowe , V. Vikram , H. Wilcox , J. Young , J. Zuntz , T. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. S. Allam , M. Banerji , J. P. Bernstein , R. A. Bernstein , E. Bertin , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , F. J. Castander , L. N. da Costa , C. E. Cunha , D. L. Depoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , J. Estrada , A. E. Evrard , A. Fausti Neto , E. Fernandez , D. A. Finley , B. Flaugher , J. A. Frieman , E. Gaztanaga , D. Gerdes , R. A. Gruendl , G. R. Gutierrez , M. Jarvis , I. Karliner , S. Kent , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , M. A. G. Maia , M. Makler , J. Marriner , J. L. Marshall , K. W. Merritt , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , J. Mohr , E. Neilsen , R. C. Nichol , B. D. Nord , K. Reil , N. A. Roe , A. Roodman , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , B. X. Santiago , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , M. E. C. Swanson , A. J. Sypniewski , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , D. Thomas , D. L. Tucker , A. Walker , R. Wechsler , J. Weller , W. Wester

The SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey: Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Weak Gravitational Lensing by eRASS1 selected Galaxy Clusters

Number counts of galaxy clusters across redshift are a powerful cosmological probe, if a precise and accurate reconstruction of the underlying mass distribution is performed -- a challenge called mass calibration. With the advent of wide…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-17 S. Grandis , V. Ghirardini , S. Bocquet , C. Garrel , J. J. Mohr , A. Liu , M. Kluge , L. Kimmig , T. H. Reiprich , A. Alarcon , A. Amon , E. Artis , Y. E. Bahar , F. Balzer , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. Bernstein , E. Bulbul , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , R. Chen , I. Chiu , A. Choi , N. Clerc , J. Comparat , J. Cordero , C. Davis , J. Derose , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , A. Ferte , M. Gatt , G. Giannini , P. Giles , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , E. M. Huf , F. Kleinebreil , N. Kuropatkin , P. F. Leget , N. Maccrann , J. Mccullough , A. Merloni , J. Myles , K. Nandra , A. Navarro-Alsina , N. Okabe , F. Pacaud , S. Pandey , J. Prat , P. Predehl , M. Ramos , M. Raveri , R. P. Rollins , A. Roodman , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , C. Sanchez , J. Sanders , T. Schrabback , L. F. Secco , R. Seppi , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , M. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , T. N. Varga , H. Wu , B. Yanny , B. Yin , X. Zhang , Y. Zhang , O. Alves , S. Bhargava , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. Carretero , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , P. Doel , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , D. Friedel , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , N. Jeffrey , O. Lahav , S. Lee , J. L. Marshall , F. Menanteau , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. K. Romer , E. Sanchez , M. Schubnell , M. Smith , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , N. Weaverdyck , J. Weller

Cluster mass estimation from lens magnification

The surface mass density of a cluster of galaxies, and thus its total mass, can be estimated from its lens magnification. The magnification can be determined from the variation in number counts of its background galaxies. In the weak…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Eelco van Kampen

Weak lensing mass reconstructions of the ESO Distant Cluster Survey

We present weak lensing mass reconstructions for the 20 high-redshift clusters i n the ESO Distant Cluster Survey. The weak lensing analysis was performed on deep, 3-color optical images taken with VLT/FORS2, using a composite galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Clowe , P. Schneider , A. Aragon-Salamanca , M. Bremer , G. De Lucia , C. Halliday , P. Jablonka , B. Milvang-Jensen , R. Pello , B. Poggianti , G. Rudnick , R. Saglia , L. Simard , S. White , D. Zaritsky

Weak Lensing from Space II: Dark Matter Mapping

We study the accuracy with which weak lensing measurements could be made from a future space-based survey, predicting the subsequent precisions of 3-dimensional dark matter maps, projected 2-dimensional dark matter maps, and mass-selected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Richard Massey , Jason Rhodes , Alexandre Refregier , Justin Albert , David Bacon , Gary Bernstein , Richard Ellis , Bhuvnesh Jain , Tim McKay , Saul Perlmutter , Andy Taylor

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing

We present galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements from 1321 sq. deg. of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 1 (Y1) data. The lens sample consists of a selection of 660,000 red galaxies with high-precision photometric redshifts, known as redMaGiC,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 J. Prat , C. Sánchez , Y. Fang , D. Gruen , J. Elvin-Poole , N. Kokron , L. F. Secco , B. Jain , R. Miquel , N. MacCrann , M. A. Troxel , A. Alarcon , D. Bacon , G. M. Bernstein , J. Blazek , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , M. Crocce , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , J. P. Dietrich , A. Drlica-Wagner , O. Friedrich , M. Gatti , W. G. Hartley , B. Hoyle , E. M. Huff , M. Jarvis , M. M. Rau , R. P. Rollins , A. J. Ross , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , S. Samuroff , E. Sheldon , T. N. Varga , P. Vielzeuf , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , J. Annis , K. Bechtol , A. Benoit-Lévy , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , T. F. Eifler , E. Fernandez , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , D. A. Goldstein , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , D. Kirk , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , J. J. Mohr , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Smith , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , R. H. Wechsler , B. Yanny , Y. Zhang

Strong and weak lensing united III: Measuring the mass distribution of the merging galaxy cluster 1E0657-56

The galaxy cluster 1E0657-56 (z = 0.296) is remarkably well-suited for addressing outstanding issues in both galaxy evolution and fundamental physics. We present a reconstruction of the mass distribution from both strong and weak…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Marusa Bradac , Douglas Clowe , Anthony H. Gonzalez , Phil Marshall , William Forman , Christine Jones , Maxim Markevitch , Scott Randall , Tim Schrabback , Dennis Zaritsky

Weak Lensing Measurement of the Mass--Richness Relation of SDSS redMaPPer Clusters

We perform a measurement of the mass--richness relation of the redMaPPer galaxy cluster catalogue using weak lensing data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We have carefully characterized a broad range of systematic uncertainties,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Melanie Simet , Tom McClintock , Rachel Mandelbaum , Eduardo Rozo , Eli Rykoff , Erin Sheldon , Risa H. Wechsler

Searching for Dark Structures: A Comparison of Weak-lensing Convergence Maps and Lensing-weighted Galaxy Density Maps

We present the result of a comparison between the dark matter distribution inferred from weak gravitational lensing and the observed galaxy distribution to identify dark structures with a high dark matter-to-galaxy density ratio. To do…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Soojin Kim , Ho Seong Hwang , Niall Jeffrey

Cosmology from large scale galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing with Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data

We present cosmological constraints from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) using a combined analysis of angular clustering of red galaxies and their cross-correlation with weak gravitational lensing of background galaxies. We use a 139 square…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 Juliana Kwan , Carles Sanchez , Joseph Clampitt , Jonathan Blazek , Martin Crocce , Bhuvnesh Jain , Joe Zuntz , Adam Amara , Matthew Becker , Gary Bernstein , Christopher Bonnett , Joseph DeRose , Scott Dodelson , Tim Eifler , Enrique Gaztanaga , Tommaso Giannantonio , Daniel Gruen , Will Hartley , Tomasz Kacprzak , Donnacha Kirk , Elisabeth Krause , Niall MacCrann , Ramon Miquel , Youngsoo Park , Ashley Ross , Eduardo Rozo , Eli Rykoff , Erin Sheldon , Michael A. Troxel , Risa Wechsler , Tim Abbott , Filipe Abdalla , Sahar Allam , Aurélien Benoit-Lévy , David Brooks , David Burke , Aurelio Carnero Rosell , Matias Carrasco Kind , Carlos Cunha , Chris D'Andrea , Luiz da Costa , Shantanu Desai , H. Thomas Diehl , Jörg Dietrich , Peter Doel , August Evrard , Enrique Fernandez , David Finley , Brenna Flaugher , Pablo Fosalba , Josh Frieman , David Gerdes , Robert Gruendl , Gaston Gutierrez , Klaus Honscheid , David James , Mike Jarvis , Kyler Kuehn , Ofer Lahav , Marcos Lima , Marcio Maia , Jennifer Marshall , Paul Martini , Peter Melchior , Joe Mohr , Robert Nichol , Brian Nord , Andres Plazas , Kevin Reil , Kathy Romer , Aaron Roodman , Eusebio Sanchez , Vic Scarpine , Ignacio Sevilla , R. Chris Smith , Marcelle Soares-Santos , Flavia Sobreira , Eric Suchyta , Molly Swanson , Gregory Tarle , Daniel Thomas , Vinu Vikram , Alistair Walker

A Lensing Survey of X-ray Luminous Galaxy Clusters at Redshift z ~ 0.2: II: CFH12k Weak Lensing Analysis and Global Correlations

Aims: We present a wide-field multi-color survey of a homogeneous sample of eleven clusters of galaxies for which we measure total masses and mass distributions from weak lensing. Methods: The eleven clusters in our sample are all X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Bardeau , G. Soucail , J. P. Kneib , O. Czoske , H. Ebeling , P. Hudelot , I. Smail , G. P. Smith

LoCuSS: Weak-lensing mass calibration of galaxy clusters

We present weak-lensing mass measurements of 50 X-ray luminous galaxy clusters at $0.15\le z\le0.3$, based on uniform high quality observations with Suprime-Cam mounted on the 8.2-m Subaru telescope. We pay close attention to possible…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 Nobuhiro Okabe , Graham P. Smith

Weak lensing mass-richness relation of redMaPPer clusters in the LSST DESC DC2 simulations

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-06 Constantin Payerne , Zhuowen Zhang , Michel Aguena , Céline Combet , Thibault Guillemin , Marina Ricci , Nathan Amouroux , Camille Avestruz , Eduardo J. Barroso , Arya Farahi , Eve Kovacs , Calum Murray , Markus M. Rau , Eli S. Rykoff , Samuel J. Schmidt , the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

Weak Lensing by High-Redshift Clusters of Galaxies - I: Cluster Mass Reconstruction

We present the results of a weak lensing survey of six high-redshift (z > 0.5), X-ray selected clusters of galaxies. We have obtained ultra-deep R-band images of each cluster with the Keck Telescope, and have measured a weak lensing signal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Clowe , G. Luppino , N. Kaiser , I. Gioia