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CARS: The CFHTLS-Archive-Research Survey II. Weighing dark matter halos of Lyman-break galaxies at z=3-5

Aims: We measure the clustering properties for a large samples of u- (z~3), g- (z~4), and r- (z~5) dropouts from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey (CFHTLS) Deep fields. Methods: Photometric redshift distributions along with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 H. Hildebrandt , J. Pielorz , T. Erben , L. van Waerbeke , P. Simon , P. Capak

Accuracy of photometric redshifts for future weak lensing surveys from space

Photometric redshifts are a key tool to extract as much information as possible from planned cosmic shear experiments. In this work we aim to test the performances that can be achieved with observations in the near-infrared from space and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Fabio Bellagamba , Massimo Meneghetti , Lauro Moscardini , Micol Bolzonella

Photometric Redshifts in the IRAC Shallow Survey

Accurate photometric redshifts are calculated for nearly 200,000 galaxies to a 4.5 micron flux limit of ~13 uJy in the 8.5 deg^2 Spitzer/IRAC Shallow survey. Using a hybrid photometric redshift algorithm incorporating both neural-net and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Brodwin , M. J. I. Brown , M. L. N. Ashby , C. Bian , K. Brand , A. Dey , P. R. Eisenhardt , D. J. Eisenstein , A. H. Gonzalez , J. -S. Huang , B. T. Jannuzi , C. S. Kochanek , E. McKenzie , M. A. Pahre , H. A. Smith , B. T. Soifer , S. A. Stanford , D. Stern , R. J. Elston

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Galaxy clustering for combined probes

We measure the clustering of DES Year 1 galaxies that are intended to be combined with weak lensing samples in order to produce precise cosmological constraints from the joint analysis of large-scale structure and lensing correlations.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 J. Elvin-Poole , M. Crocce , A. J. Ross , T. Giannantonio , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , S. Avila , N. Banik , J. Blazek , S. L. Bridle , R. Cawthon , A. Drlica-Wagner , O. Friedrich , N. Kokron , E. Krause , N. MacCrann , J. Prat , C. Sanchez , L. F. Secco , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. A. Troxel , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , J. Annis , J. Asorey , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , A. Benoit-Levy , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , D. Carollo , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. E. Cunha , C. B. DAndrea , L. N. da Costa , T. M. Davis , C. Davis , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , T. F. Eifler , A. E. Evrard , E. Fernandez , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. Garcia-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , K. Glazebrook , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , S. R. Hinton , K. Honscheid , J. K. Hoormann , B. Jain , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , T. Jeltema , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , A. King , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , G. Lewis , T. S. Li , C. Lidman , M. Lima , H. Lin , E. Macaulay , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , A. Moller , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , C. R. ONeill , W. J. Percival , D. Petravick , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , E. Sheldon , M. Smith , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , N. E. Sommer , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , B. E. Tucker , D. L. Tucker , S. A. Uddin , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , R. H. Wechsler , J. Weller , W. Wester , R. C. Wolf , F. Yuan , B. Zhang , J. Zuntz

Calibrating Photometric Redshifts of Luminous Red Galaxies

We discuss the construction of a photometric redshift catalogue of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), emphasizing the principal steps necessary for constructing such a catalogue -- (i) photometrically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Nikhil Padmanabhan , Tamas Budavari , David J. Schlegel , Terry Bridges , Jonathan Brinkmann , Russell Cannon , Andrew J. Connolly , Scott M. Croom , Istvan Csabai , Michael Drinkwater , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Paul C. Hewett , Jon Loveday , Robert C. Nichol , Kevin A. Pimbblet , Roberto De Propris , Donald P. Schneider , Ryan Scranton , Uros Seljak , Tom Shanks , Istvan Szapudi , Alexander S. Szalay , David Wake

Euclid preparation. XXXIV. The effect of linear redshift-space distortions in photometric galaxy clustering and its cross-correlation with cosmic shear

The cosmological surveys that are planned for the current decade will provide us with unparalleled observations of the distribution of galaxies on cosmic scales, by means of which we can probe the underlying large-scale structure (LSS) of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-23 Euclid Collaboration , K. Tanidis , V. F. Cardone , M. Martinelli , I. Tutusaus , S. Camera , N. Aghanim , A. Amara , S. Andreon , N. Auricchio , M. Baldi , S. Bardelli , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , J. Brinchmann , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , J. Carretero , S. Casas , M. Castellano , S. Cavuoti , A. Cimatti , R. Cledassou , G. Congedo , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , L. Corcione , F. Courbin , H. M. Courtois , A. DaSilva , H. Degaudenzi , J. Dinis , F. Dubath , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , M. Farina , S. Farrens , S. Ferriol , P. Fosalba , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , M. Fumana , S. Galeotta , B. Garilli , W. Gillard , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , L. Guzzo , S. V. H. Haugan , W. Holmes , I. Hook , A. Hornstrup , K. Jahnke , B. Joachimi , E. Keihanen , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , P. B. Lilje , V. Lindholm , I. Lloro , E. Maiorano , O. Mansutti , O. Marggraf , K. Markovic , N. Martinet , F. Marulli , R. Massey , S. Maurogordato , E. Medinaceli , S. Mei , M. Meneghetti , G. Meylan , M. Moresco , L. Moscardini , E. Munari , S. -M. Niemi , C. Padilla , S. Paltani , F. Pasian , K. Pedersen , W. J. Percival , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , G. Polenta , J. E. Pollack , M. Poncet , L. A. Popa , F. Raison , A. Renzi , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , E. Rossetti , R. Saglia , D. Sapone , B. Sartoris , M. Schirmer , P. Schneider , A. Secroun , G. Seidel , S. Serrano , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , L. Stanco , P. Tallada-Crespí , A. N. Taylor , I. Tereno , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , E. A. Valentijn , L. Valenziano , T. Vassallo , A. Veropalumbo , Y. Wang , J. Weller , G. Zamorani , J. Zoubian , E. Zucca , A. Biviano , A. Boucaud , E. Bozzo , C. Colodro-Conde , D. Di Ferdinando , R. Farinelli , J. Graciá-Carpio , S. Marcin , N. Mauri , V. Scottez , M. Tenti , A. Tramacere , Y. Akrami , V. Allevato , C. Baccigalupi , A. Balaguera-Antolínez , M. Ballardini , D. Benielli , F. Bernardeau , S. Borgani , A. S. Borlaff , C. Burigana , R. Cabanac , A. Cappi , C. S. Carvalho , G. Castignani , T. Castro , G. Cañas-Herrera , K. C. Chambers , A. R. Cooray , J. Coupon , A. Díaz-Sánchez , S. Davini , S. delaTorre , G. DeLucia , G. Desprez , S. DiDomizio , H. Dole , J. A. Escartin Vigo , S. Escoffier , P. G. Ferreira , I. Ferrero , F. Finelli , L. Gabarra , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , F. Giacomini , G. Gozaliasl , H. Hildebrandt , S. Ilić , J. J. E. Kajava , V. Kansal , C. C. Kirkpatrick , L. Legrand , A. Loureiro , J. Macias-Perez , M. Magliocchetti , G. Mainetti , R. Maoli , C. J. A. P. Martins , S. Matthew , L. Maurin , R. B. Metcalf , M. Migliaccio , P. Monaco , G. Morgante , S. Nadathur , A. A. Nucita , M. Pöntinen , L. Patrizii , A. Pezzotta , V. Popa , D. Potter , A. G. Sánchez , Z. Sakr , J. A. Schewtschenko , A. Schneider , M. Sereno , P. Simon , A. Spurio Mancini , J. Steinwagner , M. Tewes , R. Teyssier , S. Toft , J. Valiviita , M. Viel , L. Linke

A Survey of Galaxy Redshifts from Low-Resolution Slitless Spectra: Suggestion of Large-Scale Structures at Z ~0.1

We have conducted a galaxy survey based on low-resolution slitless spectra taken from the automated CFHT-Laval survey. We present redshift distributions for 522 galaxies distributed in 4 distinct regions of the sky. Redshifts are determined…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. Beauchemin , E. F. Borra

Effect of Photometric Redshift Uncertainties on Weak Lensing Tomography

We perform a systematic analysis of the effects of photometric redshift uncertainties on weak lensing tomography. We describe the photo-z distribution with a bias and Gaussian scatter that are allowed to vary arbitrarily between intervals…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhaoming Ma , Wayne Hu , Dragan Huterer

The Statistical Approach to Quantifying Galaxy Evolution

Studies of the distribution and evolution of galaxies are of fundamental importance to modern cosmology; these studies, however, are hampered by the complexity of the competing effects of spectral and density evolution. Constructing a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. J. Brunner , A. J. Connolly , A. S. Szalay

The Las Campanas Infrared Survey. IV. The Photometric Redshift Survey and the Rest-frame R-band Galaxy Luminosity Function at 0.5 <= z <= 1.5

(Abridged) We present rest-frame R-band galaxy luminosity function measurements for three different redshift ranges: 0.5<=z<=0.75, 0.75<=z<=1.0, and 1.0<=z<=1.5. Our measurements are based on photometric redshifts for ~3000 H-band selected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Hsiao-Wen Chen , Ronald. O. Marzke , Patrick. J. McCarthy , P. Martini , R. G. Carlberg , S. E. Persson , A. Bunker , C. R. Bridge , R. G. Abraham

Galaxy clustering in the CFHTLS-Wide: the changing relationship between galaxies and haloes since z ~ 1.2

We present a detailed investigation of the changing relationship between galaxies and the dark matter haloes they inhabit from z~1.2 to the present day. We do this by comparing precise galaxy clustering measurements over 133 deg2 of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 J. Coupon , M. Kilbinger , H. J. McCracken , O. Ilbert , S. Arnouts , Y. Mellier , U. Abbas , S. de la Torre , Y. Goranova , P. Hudelot , J. -P. Kneib , O. Le fèvre

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Clustering Redshifts -- Calibration of the Weak Lensing Source Redshift Distributions with redMaGiC and BOSS/eBOSS

We present the calibration of the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 (DES Y3) weak lensing source galaxy redshift distributions $n(z)$ from clustering measurements. In particular, we cross-correlate the weak lensing (WL) source galaxies sample with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-22 M. Gatti , G. Giannini , G. M. Bernstein , A. Alarcon , J. Myles , A. Amon , R. Cawthon , M. Troxel , J. DeRose , S. Everett , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , J. Elvin-Poole , J. Cordero , I. Harrison , C. Sanchez , J. Prat , D. Gruen , H. Lin , M. Crocce , E. Rozo , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , S. Avila , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , A. Choi , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , K. Dawson , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , K. Eckert , T. F. Eifler , A. E. Evrard , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. Garcia-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , T. Giannantonio , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. Huterer , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , M. Lima , N. MacCrann , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchon , W. J. Percival , A. A. Plazas , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , A. Roodman , G. Rossi , S. Samuroff , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , L. F. Secco , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , T. N. Varga , J. Weller , R. D. Wilkinson

Cosmology with imaging galaxy surveys: the impact of evolving galaxy bias and magnification

The joint analysis of galaxy clustering and galaxy-shear cross-correlations (galaxy-galaxy lensing) in imaging surveys constitutes one of the main avenues to obtain cosmological information. Analyses from Stage III surveys have assumed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-03 Shivam Pandey , Carles Sánchez , Bhuvnesh Jain , The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

Cross-Correlation of CFHTLenS Galaxy Number Density and Planck CMB Lensing

We measure the cross-power spectrum between galaxy density from Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS) catalogues and gravitational lensing convergence from Planck data release 1 (2013) and 2 (2015). We investigate three…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-12 Y. Omori , G. Holder

Cosmology with photometric redshift surveys

We explore the utility of future photometric redshift imaging surveys for delineating the large-scale structure of the Universe, and assess the resulting constraints on the cosmological model. We perform two complementary types of analysis:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Chris Blake , Sarah Bridle

Self calibration of photometric redshift scatter in weak lensing surveys

Photo-z errors, especially catastrophic errors, are a major uncertainty for precision weak lensing cosmology. We find that the shear-(galaxy number) density and density-density cross correlation measurements between photo-z bins, available…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Pengjie Zhang , Ue-Li Pen , Gary Bernstein

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cross-Correlation Redshifts in the DES -- Calibration of the Weak Lensing Source Redshift Distributions

We present the calibration of the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 (DES Y1) weak lensing source galaxy redshift distributions from clustering measurements. By cross-correlating the positions of source galaxies with luminous red galaxies selected…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-09 C. Davis , M. Gatti , P. Vielzeuf , R. Cawthon , E. Rozo , A. Alarcon , G. M. Bernstein , C. Bonnett , A. Carnero Rosell , F. J. Castander , C. Chang , L. N. da Costa , T. M. Davis , J. De Vicente , J. DeRose , A. Drlica-Wagner , J. Elvin-Poole , E. Gaztanaga , D. Gruen , J. Gschwend , W. G. Hartley , B. Hoyle , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , R. Miquel , R. L. C. Ogando , M. M. Rau , A. Roodman , E. S. Rykoff , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. A. Troxel , R. H. Wechsler , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , J. Annis , K. Bechtol , A. Benoit-Lévy , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , T. F. Eifler , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , D. W. Gerdes , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , E. Krause , R. Kron , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , M. Lima , M. March , J. L. Marshall , F. Menanteau , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , A. A. Plazas , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , J. Zuntz

Investigating Deep Learning Methods for Obtaining Photometric Redshift Estimations from Images

Knowing the redshift of galaxies is one of the first requirements of many cosmological experiments, and as it's impossible to perform spectroscopy for every galaxy being observed, photometric redshift (photo-z) estimations are still of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-09 Ben Henghes , Connor Pettitt , Jeyan Thiyagalingam , Tony Hey , Ofer Lahav

Evolution in the Clustering of Galaxies for z < 1.0

Measuring the evolution in the clustering of galaxies over a large redshift range is a challenging problem. We have developed a new technique which uses photometric redshifts to measure the angular correlation function in redshift shells.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert J. Brunner , Alex S. Szalay , Andrew J. Connolly

Characterizing fast radio bursts through statistical cross-correlations

Understanding the origin of fast radio bursts (FRB's) is a central unsolved problem in astrophysics that is severely hampered by their poorly determined distance scale. Determining the redshift distribution of FRB's appears to require…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Masoud Rafiei-Ravandi , Kendrick M. Smith , Kiyoshi W. Masui