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It is of great interest to measure the properties of substructures in dark matter halos at galactic and cluster scales. Here we suggest a method to constrain substructure properties using the variance of weak gravitational flexion in a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 D. J. Bacon , A. Amara , J. I. Read

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…

A feature-mapping framework for inverse reconstruction of density-based topology optimization results is proposed. Unlike SIMP, whose voxelized outputs are hard to interpret or reuse, the method represents designs with high-level geometric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Patrick Jung

We propose a new technique to directly measure the shapes of dark matter halos of galaxies using weak gravitational lensing. Extending the standard galaxy-galaxy lensing method, we show that the shape parameters of the mass distribution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Priyamvada Natarajan , Alexandre Refregier

Compressed sensing (CS) is an efficient method to reconstruct MR image from small sampled data in $k$-space and accelerate the acquisition of MRI. In this work, we propose a novel deep geometric distillation network which combines the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-30 Xiaohong Fan , Yin Yang , Jianping Zhang

We have developed a new technique for weak lensing analysis, with which the effect of the point spread function (PSF) on small galaxy images can be corrected for accurately. Rather than relying on weighted second moments of detected images,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Konrad Kuijken

We revisit the issue of non-parametric gravitational lens reconstruction and present a new method to obtain the cluster mass distribution using strong lensing data without using any prior information on the underlying mass. The method…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 J. M. Diego , P. Protopapas , H. B Sandvik , M. Tegmark

Compressive sensing(CS) has drawn much attention in recent years due to its low sampling rate as well as high recovery accuracy. As an important procedure, reconstructing a sparse signal from few measurement data has been intensively…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-25 Yicong He , Fei Wang , Shiyuan Wang , Badong Chen

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

Gravitational lensing can provide pure geometric tests of the structure of space-time, for instance by determining empirically the angular diameter distance-redshift relation. This geometric test has been demonstrated several times using…

Weak lensing convergence maps - upon which higher order statistics can be calculated - can be recovered from observations of the shear field by solving the lensing inverse problem. For typical surveys this inverse problem is ill-posed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-08 Matthew A. Price , Xiaohao Cai , Jason D. McEwen , Thomas D. Kitching

We discuss the galaxy-galaxy-mass three-point correlation function and show how to measure it with weak gravitational lensing. The method entails choosing a large of pairs of foreground lens galaxies and constructing a mean shear map with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 David E. Johnston

We model weak gravitational lensing of light by large-scale structure using ray tracing through N-body simulations. The method is described with particular attention paid to numerical convergence. We investigate some of the key…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Chris Vale , Martin White

Weak gravitational lensing observations are a key science driver for the NASA Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST). To validate the performance of the WFIRST infrared detectors, we have performed a laboratory emulation of weak…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Suresh Seshadri , Charles Shapiro , Timothy Goodsall , Jason Fucik , Christopher M. Hirata , Jason Rhodes , Barnaby Rowe , Roger Smith

Shear estimation bias from galaxy detection and blending identification is now recognized as an issue for ongoing and future weak lensing surveys. Currently, the empirical approach to correcting for this bias involves numerically shearing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Xiangchong Li , Rachel Mandelbaum

With the halo catalog from the {\it Millennium Simulation}, we analyze the weak-lensing measured density profiles for clusters of galaxies, paying attention to the determination of the concentration-mass ($c$-$M$) relation which can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-08 Wei Du , Zuhui Fan

We report a mass reconstruction of A1689 using Particle Based Lensing (PBL), a new technique for Strong+Weak lensing that allows a variable resolution depending on the data density and the signal-to-noise. Using PBL we also calculate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-19 Sanghamitra Deb , Andrea Morandi , Kristian Pedersen , Signe Riemer-Sorensen , David M. Goldberg , Hakon Dahle

We present ARCH (Adaptive Reconstruction of Cluster Halos), a new gravitational lensing pipeline for cluster mass reconstruction that applies a joint shear-flexion analysis to JWST imaging. Previous approaches have explored joint…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-01 Jacob Shpiece , David M. Goldberg

We present a new non-parametric method for determining mean 3D density and mass profiles from weak lensing measurements around stacked samples of galaxies or clusters, that is, from measurement of the galaxy-shear or cluster-shear…

We show how observations of multiply-imaged quasars at high redshift can be used as a probe of dark matter clumps (subhalos with masses ~ 10^9 solar masses) within the virialized extent of more massive lensing halos. A large abundance of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 R. Benton Metcalf , Piero Madau