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Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Cosmology from Cosmic Shear and Robustness to Modeling Uncertainty

This work and its companion paper, Amon et al. (2021), present cosmic shear measurements and cosmological constraints from over 100 million source galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 3 data. We constrain the lensing amplitude…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-17 L. F. Secco , S. Samuroff , E. Krause , B. Jain , J. Blazek , M. Raveri , A. Campos , A. Amon , A. Chen , C. Doux , A. Choi , D. Gruen , G. M. Bernstein , C. Chang , J. DeRose , J. Myles , A. Ferté , P. Lemos , D. Huterer , J. Prat , M. A. Troxel , N. MacCrann , A. R. Liddle , T. Kacprzak , X. Fang , C. Sánchez , S. Pandey , S. Dodelson , P. Chintalapati , K. Hoffmann , A. Alarcon , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , E. J. Baxter , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , A. Brandao-Souza , H. Camacho , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , R. Cawthon , J. P. Cordero , M. Crocce , C. Davis , E. Di Valentino , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , T. F. Eifler , M. Elidaiana , F. Elsner , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , P. Fosalba , O. Friedrich , M. Gatti , G. Giannini , R. A. Gruendl , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , H. Huang , E. M. Huff , M. Jarvis , N. Jeffrey , N. Kuropatkin , P. -F. Leget , J. Muir , J. Mccullough , A. Navarro Alsina , Y. Omori , Y. Park , A. Porredon , R. Rollins , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , J. Sanchez , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. S. Sheldon , T. Shin , I. Tutusaus , T. N. Varga , N. Weaverdyck , R. H. Wechsler , B. Yanny , B. Yin , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , S. Bhargava , S. L. Bridle , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , J. Carretero , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , J. De Vicente , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , M. Lima , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , D. Petravick , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , A. K. Romer , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , D. Scolnic , S. Serrano , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing

We present cosmological results from a combined analysis of galaxy clustering and weak gravitational lensing, using 1321 deg$^2$ of $griz$ imaging data from the first year of the Dark Energy Survey (DES Y1). We combine three two-point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-04 DES Collaboration , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , A. Alarcon , J. Aleksić , S. Allam , S. Allen , A. Amara , J. Annis , J. Asorey , S. Avila , D. Bacon , E. Balbinot , M. Banerji , N. Banik , W. Barkhouse , M. Baumer , E. Baxter , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , A. Benoit-Lévy , B. A. Benson , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , J. Blazek , S. L. Bridle , D. Brooks , D. Brout , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , M. T. Busha , D. Capozzi , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , N. Chen , M. Childress , A. Choi , C. Conselice , R. Crittenden , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , R. Das , T. M. Davis , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , D. L. DePoy , J. DeRose , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , T. F. Eifler , A. E. Elliott , F. Elsner , J. Elvin-Poole , J. Estrada , A. E. Evrard , Y. Fang , E. Fernandez , A. Ferté , D. A. Finley , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , O. Friedrich , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , M. Garcia-Fernandez , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , M. S. S. Gill , K. Glazebrook , D. A. Goldstein , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. Hamilton , W. G. Hartley , S. R. Hinton , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. Huterer , B. Jain , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , T. Jeltema , M. D. Johnson , M. W. G. Johnson , T. Kacprzak , S. Kent , A. G. Kim , A. King , D. Kirk , N. Kokron , A. Kovacs , E. Krause , C. Krawiec , A. Kremin , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , N. Kuropatkin , F. Lacasa , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , A. R. Liddle , C. Lidman , M. Lima , H. Lin , N. MacCrann , M. A. G. Maia , M. Makler , M. Manera , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , R. G. McMahon , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , V. Miranda , D. Mudd , J. Muir , A. Möller , E. Neilsen , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , P. Nugent , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , J. Peacock , H. V. Peiris , J. Peoples , W. J. Percival , D. Petravick , A. A. Plazas , A. Porredon , J. Prat , A. Pujol , M. M. Rau , A. Refregier , P. M. Ricker , N. Roe , R. P. Rollins , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , A. I. Salvador , S. Samuroff , C. Sánchez , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , D. Scolnic , L. F. Secco , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , R. C. Smith , M. Smith , J. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , M. A. Troxel , D. L. Tucker , B. E. Tucker , S. A. Uddin , T. N. Varga , P. Vielzeuf , V. Vikram , A. K. Vivas , A. R. Walker , M. Wang , R. H. Wechsler , J. Weller , W. Wester , R. C. Wolf , B. Yanny , F. Yuan , A. Zenteno , B. Zhang , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz

Concordance Cosmology?

We propose a new intuitive metric for evaluating the tension between two experiments, and apply it to several data sets. While our metric is non-optimal, if evidence of tension is detected, this evidence is robust and easy to interpret.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-09 Youngsoo Park , Eduardo Rozo

New tests of dark sector interactions from the full-shape galaxy power spectrum

We explore the role of redshift-space galaxy clustering data in constraining non-gravitational interactions between dark energy (DE) and dark matter (DM), for which state-of-the-art limits have so far been obtained from late-time background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-10 Rafael C Nunes , Sunny Vagnozzi , Suresh Kumar , Eleonora Di Valentino , Olga Mena

A correlation of the cosmic microwave sky with large scale structure

We cross correlate the large-scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) sky measured by WMAP with two probes of large-scale structure at z ~ 1. The hard X-ray background, measured by the HEAO-1 satellite, is positively correlated with the WMAP…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Stephen Boughn , Robert Crittenden

Cosmological Constraints from Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Cluster Lensing and Abundances with Simulation-based Forward-Modeling

We present a simulation-based forward-modeling framework for cosmological inference from optical galaxy-cluster samples, and apply it to the abundance and weak-lensing signals of DES-Y1 redMaPPer clusters. The model embeds…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-30 Andrés N. Salcedo , Eduardo Rozo , Hao-Yi Wu , David H. Weinberg , Pranav Chiploonkar , Chun-Hao To , Shulei Cao , Eli S. Rykoff , Nicole Marcelina Gountanis , Conghao Zhou

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

Constraining Dark Matter Parameters in the Lambda-CDM Framework: A Bayesian Comparison of Planck and DES Constraints

We present a Bayesian analysis of cosmological parameter constraints from early- and late-universe observations, focusing on the matter density parameter ($\Omega_m$) and the amplitude of matter fluctuations ($\sigma_8$) within the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 Manjeet Kunwar , Nabin Bhusal , Manil Khatiwada , Niraj Dhital

Effects of Redshift Uncertainty on Cross-Correlations of CMB Lensing and Galaxy Surveys

We explore the effects of incorporating redshift uncertainty into measurements of galaxy clustering and cross-correlations of galaxy positions and cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing maps. We use a simple Gaussian model for a redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-26 Ross Cawthon

Scale-dependent galaxy bias, CMB lensing-galaxy cross-correlation, and neutrino masses

One of the most powerful cosmological datasets when it comes to constraining neutrino masses is represented by galaxy power spectrum measurements, $P_{gg}(k)$. The constraining power of $P_{gg}(k)$ is however severely limited by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-18 Elena Giusarma , Sunny Vagnozzi , Shirley Ho , Simone Ferraro , Katherine Freese , Rocky Kamen-Rubio , Kam-Biu Luk

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cross-Correlation Redshifts - Methods and Systematics Characterization

We use numerical simulations to characterize the performance of a clustering-based method to calibrate photometric redshift biases. In particular, we cross-correlate the weak lensing (WL) source galaxies from the Dark Energy Survey Year 1…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 M. Gatti , P. Vielzeuf , C. Davis , R. Cawthon , M. M. Rau , J. DeRose , J. De Vicente , A. Alarcon , E. Rozo , E. Gaztanaga , B. Hoyle , R. Miquel , G. M. Bernstein , C. Bonnett , A. Carnero Rosell , F. J. Castander , C. Chang , L. N. da Costa , D. Gruen , J. Gschwend , W. G. Hartley , H. Lin , N. MacCrann , M. A. G. Maia , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Roodman , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. A. Troxel , R. H. Wechsler , J. Asorey , T. M. Davis , K. Glazebrook , S. R. Hinton , G. Lewis , C. Lidman , E. Macaulay , A. Möller , C. R. O'Neill , N. E. Sommer , S. A. Uddin , F. Yuan , B. Zhang , T. M. C. Abbott , S. Allam , J. Annis , K. Bechtol , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , D. Carollo , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , T. F. Eifler , A. E. Evrard , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , D. W. Gerdes , D. A. Goldstein , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , K. Honscheid , J. K. Hoormann , B. Jain , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , T. Jeltema , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , N. Kuropatkin , T. S. Li , M. Lima , J. L. Marshall , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , A. A. Plazas , K. Reil , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , E. Sheldon , M. Smith , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , B. E. Tucker , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , J. Weller , W. Wester , R. C. Wolf

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Constraints on cosmological parameters and galaxy bias models from galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing using the redMaGiC sample

We constrain cosmological and galaxy-bias parameters using the combination of galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements from the Dark Energy Survey Year-3 data. We describe our modeling framework, and choice of scales…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-27 S. Pandey , E. Krause , J. DeRose , N. MacCrann , B. Jain , M. Crocce , J. Blazek , A. Choi , H. Huang , C. To , X. Fang , J. Elvin-Poole , J. Prat , A. Porredon , L. F. Secco , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , N. Weaverdyck , Y. Park , M. Raveri , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , G. M. Bernstein , C. Sánchez , M. Jarvis , M. A. Troxel , G. Zacharegkas , C. Chang , A. Alarcon , O. Alves , A. Amon , F. Andrade-Oliveira , E. Baxter , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , H. Camacho , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , R. Cawthon , R. Chen , P. Chintalapati , C. Davis , E. Di Valentino , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , T. F. Eifler , F. Elsner , S. Everett , A. Farahi , A. Ferté , P. Fosalba , O. Friedrich , M. Gatti , G. Giannini , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , E. M. Huff , D. Huterer , P. -F. Leget , J. McCullough , J. Muir , J. Myles , A. Navarro-Alsina , Y. Omori , R. P. Rollins , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , A. Troja , I. Tutusaus , T. N. Varga , R. H. Wechsler , B. Yanny , B. Yin , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. Carretero , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , J. De Vicente , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , A. E. Evrard , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , M. Lima , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , D. Petravick , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , S. Serrano , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , J. Weller

A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Lensing Potential and Power Spectrum from 500 deg$^2$ of SPTpol Temperature and Polarization Data

We present a measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential using 500 deg$^2$ of 150 GHz data from the SPTpol receiver on the South Pole Telescope. The lensing potential is reconstructed with signal-to-noise per mode…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 W. L. K. Wu , L. M. Mocanu , P. A. R. Ade , A. J. Anderson , J. E. Austermann , J. S. Avva , J. A. Beall , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , F. Bianchini , L. E. Bleem , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , H. C. Chiang , R. Citron , C. Corbett Moran , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , W. Everett , J. Gallicchio , E. M. George , A. Gilbert , N. Gupta , N. W. Halverson , N. Harrington , J. W. Henning , G. C. Hilton , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , Z. Hou , J. D. Hrubes , N. Huang , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , D. Li , A. Lowitz , A. Manzotti , J. J. McMahon , S. S. Meyer , M. Millea , J. Montgomery , A. Nadolski , T. Natoli , J. P. Nibarger , G. I. Noble , V. Novosad , Y. Omori , S. Padin , S. Patil , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , J. T. Sayre , K. K. Schaffer , C. Sievers , G. Simard , G. Smecher , A. A. Stark , K. T. Story , C. Tucker , K. Vanderlinde , T. Veach , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , V. Yefremenko

DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys Data Release 9: Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing using the Minimal Bias Model

We present a tentative constraint on cosmological parameters $\Omega_m$ and $\sigma_8$ from a joint analysis of galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing from DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys Data Release 9 (DR9), covering approximately 10000…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-21 Haojie Xu , Hekun Li , Jun Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Pengjie Zhang , Min He , Yizhou Gu , Jian Qin , Zhaozhou Li , Antonios Katsianis , Ji Yao , Zhaoyu Wang , Yirong Wang , Liping Fu

Modified Cosmology or Modified Galaxy Astrophysics is Driving the z>6 JWST Results? CMB Experiments can discover the Origin in the Near Future

The massive and bright galaxies observed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at high redshifts ($z > 6$) have challenged our understanding of the Universe. This may require revisiting the physics of galaxy formation and evolution, or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-09 Harsh Mehta , Suvodip Mukherjee

Unexplained correlation between the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature and the local matter density distribution

Recent observations have indicated a Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature decrement in the direction of local galaxies within the 2MASS Redshift Survey. We investigate this detection by analyzing its frequency dependence and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-06 M. Cruz , E. Martínez-González , C. Gimeno-Amo , B. J. Kavanagh , M. Tucci

An Assessment of Contamination in the thermal-SZ Map Using Cross Correlations

We search for the potential contamination in the Planck thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) map by calculating the cross-correlation between the tSZ signal and weak lensing by large scale structure and the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Ziang Yan , Alireza Hojjati , Tilman Tröster , Gary Hinshaw , Ludovic van Waerbeke

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Two-Season ACTPol Lensing Power Spectrum

We report a measurement of the power spectrum of cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing from two seasons of Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (ACTPol) CMB data. The CMB lensing power spectrum is extracted from both temperature and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Blake D. Sherwin , Alexander van Engelen , Neelima Sehgal , Mathew Madhavacheril , Graeme E. Addison , Simone Aiola , Rupert Allison , Nicholas Battaglia , James A. Beall , Daniel T. Becker , J. Richard Bond , Erminia Calabrese , Rahul Datta , Mark J. Devlin , Rolando Dunner , Joanna Dunkley , Anna E. Fox , Patricio Gallardo , Mark Halpern , Matthew Hasselfield , Shawn Henderson , J. Colin Hill , Gene C. Hilton , Johannes Hubmayr , John P. Hughes , Adam D. Hincks , Renee Hlozek , Kevin M. Huffenberger , Brian Koopman , Arthur Kosowsky , Thibaut Louis , Loic Maurin , Jeff McMahon , Kavilan Moodley , Sigurd Naess , Federico Nati , Laura Newburgh , Michael D. Niemack , Lyman A. Page , Jonathan Sievers , David N. Spergel , Suzanne T. Staggs , Robert J. Thornton , Jeff Van Lanen , Eve Vavagiakis , Edward J. Wollack

A measurement of weak lensing by large scale structure in RCS fields

We have analysed ~24 square degrees of R_C-band imaging data from the Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS), and measured the excess correlations between galaxy ellipticities on scales ranging from 1 to 30 arcminutes. We have used data from two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Henk Hoekstra , Howard K. C. Yee , Michael D. Gladders , L. Felipe Barrientos , Patrick B. Hall , Leopoldo Infante

Cosmic Microwave Background--Weak Lensing Correlation: Analytical and Numerical Study of Non-linearity and Implications for Dark Energy

Non-linear evolution of density fluctuations yields secondary anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which are correlated with the same density fluctuations that can be measured by weak lensing (WL) surveys. We study the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Atsushi J. Nishizawa , Eiichiro Komatsu , Naoki Yoshida , Ryuichi Takahashi , Naoshi Sugiyama