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AIMS. While weak lensing cannot resolve cluster cores and strong lensing is almost insensitive to density profiles outside the scale radius, combinations of both effects promise to constrain density profiles of galaxy clusters well, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Merten , M. Cacciato , M. Meneghetti , C. Mignone , M. Bartelmann

A new cosmic shear analysis pipeline SUNGLASS (Simulated UNiverses for Gravitational Lensing Analysis and Shear Surveys) is introduced. SUNGLASS is a pipeline that rapidly generates simulated universes for weak lensing and cosmic shear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. Kiessling , A. F. Heavens , A. N. Taylor

Determining the distribution of redshifts for galaxies in wide-field photometric surveys is essential for robust cosmological studies of weak gravitational lensing. We present the methodology, calibrated redshift distributions, and…

Weak gravitational lensing is responsible for the shearing and magnification of the images of high-redshift sources due to the presence of intervening matter. The distortions are due to fluctuations in the gravitational potential, and are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 D. Munshi , P. Valageas , L. Van Waerbeke , A. Heavens

The next generation of weak lensing probes can place strong constraints on cosmological parameters by measuring the mass distribution and geometry of the low redshift universe. We show that a future all-sky tomographic cosmic shear survey…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Ivan Debono

We investigate the potential of weak gravitational lensing maps to differentiate between distinct cosmological models, considering cosmic variance due to a limited map extension and the presence of noise. We introduce a measure of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Antonio Guimarães

Key non-Gaussian properties of cosmological fields can be captured by their one-point statistics, providing a complement to two-point statistical measurements from power spectra or correlation functions. Large deviation theory can robustly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-31 Aoife Boyle , Alexandre Barthelemy , Sandrine Codis , Cora Uhlemann , Oliver Friedrich

Extending previous studies, we derive generic predictions for lower order cumulants and their correlators for individual tomographic bins as well as between two different bins. We derive the corresponding one- and two-point joint…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Dipak Munshi , Peter Coles , Martin Kilbinger

Robust modelling of strong lensing systems is fundamental to exploit the information they contain about the distribution of matter in galaxies and clusters. In this work, we present Lensed, a new code which performs forward parametric…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-15 Nicolas Tessore , Fabio Bellagamba , R. Benton Metcalf

Dark matter and dark energy are usually assumed to couple only gravitationally. An extension to this picture is to model dark energy as a scalar field coupled directly to cold dark matter. This coupling leads to new physical effects, such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Francesco Pace , Marco Baldi , Lauro Moscardini , David Bacon , Robert Crittenden

In this paper we introduce the SEAGLE (i.e. Simulating EAGLE LEnses) program, that approaches the study of galaxy formation through strong gravitational lensing, using a suite of high-resolution hydrodynamic simulations, Evolution and…

Strong lensing has developed into an important astrophysical tool for probing both cosmology and galaxies (their structures, formations, and evolutions). Now several hundreds of strong lens systems produced by massive galaxies have been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Shuo Cao , Zong-Hong Zhu

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…

Future weak lensing surveys will directly probe the clustering of dark matter, in addition to providing a test for various cosmological models. Recent studies have provided us with the tools which can be used to construct the complete…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dipak Munshi , Yun Wang

We investigate strong gravitational lensing in the concordance $\Lambda$CDM cosmology by carrying out ray-tracing along past light cones through the Millennium Simulation, the largest simulation of cosmic structure formation ever carried…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-03 Stefan Hilbert , Simon D. M. White , Jan Hartlap , Peter Schneider

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

The analysis of optical images of galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lensing systems can provide important information about the distribution of dark matter at small scales. However, the modeling and statistical analysis of these images is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-30 Adam Coogan , Konstantin Karchev , Christoph Weniger

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

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…

Due to observational constraints, dark matter determinations in nearby clusters based on weak lensing are still extremely rare, in spite of their importance for the determination of cluster properties independent of other methods. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Raphael Gavazzi , Christophe Adami , Florence Durret , Jean-Charles Cuillandre , Olivier Ilbert , Alain Mazure , Roser Pello , Melville P. Ulmer