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Ongoing and future wide-field galaxy surveys can be used to locate a number of clusters of galaxies with cosmic shear measurement alone. We study constraints on cosmological models using statistics of weak lensing selected galaxy clusters.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Masato Shirasaki , Takashi Hamana , Naoki Yoshida

In the course of a weak gravitational lensing survey of 39 clusters of galaxies,covering a total sky area of ~1 square degree, we have serendipitously discovered mass concentrations in the fields of A1705 and A1722 which are most probably…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Dahle , K. Pedersen , P. B. Lilje , S. J. Maddox , N. Kaiser

The amplitude of weak lensing should increase with source distance, rising steeply behind a lens and saturating at high redshift, providing a model-independent means of measuring cosmic geometry. We measure the amplitude of weak lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Elinor Medezinski , Tom Broadhurst , Keiichi Umetsu , Narciso Benitez , Andy Taylor

We present a weak lensing and multi-wavelength analysis of three galaxy clusters: A115, A2219, and A2261. Weak lensing is performed using shape measurements made in short 60s exposure images obtained using WIYN-ODI. Forced measurement is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-14 Anirban Dutta , John Peterson , Matteo Cianfaglione , Glenn Sembroski

We present results of a weak gravitational lensing survey of six X-ray selected high-redshift clusters of galaxies. We find that the masses of the clusters derived from weak lensing are comparable to those derived from the X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Clowe , G. Luppino , N. Kaiser , I. Gioia

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…

We present a comprehensive analysis of strong-lensing, weak-lensing shear and magnification data for a sample of 16 X-ray-regular and 4 high-magnification galaxy clusters selected from the CLASH survey. Our analysis combines constraints…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Keiichi Umetsu , Adi Zitrin , Daniel Gruen , Julian Merten , Megan Donahue , Marc Postman

We use weak lensing shear measurements of six z>0.5 clusters of galaxies to derive the mean lensing redshift of the background galaxies used to measure the shear. Five of these clusters are compared to X-ray mass models and verify a mean…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Clowe , G. Luppino , N. Kaiser

We present a comprehensive structure detection analysis of the 0.3 square degree area of the MUSYC-ACES field which covers the Chandra Deep Field-South (CDFS). Using a density-based clustering algorithm on the MUSYC and ACES photometric and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Siamak Dehghan , Melanie Johnston-Hollitt

As a contribution to the understanding of the dark energy concept, the Dark energy American French Team (DAFT, in French FADA) has started a large project to characterize statistically high redshift galaxy clusters, infer cosmological…

The use of large, X-ray selected galaxy cluster catalogues for cosmological analyses requires a thorough understanding of the X-ray mass estimates. Weak gravitational lensing is an ideal method to shed light on such issues, due to its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Melanie Simet , Nicholas Battaglia , Rachel Mandelbaum , Uroš Seljak

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…

In order to enlarge publicly available optical cluster catalogs, in particular at high redshift, we have performed a systematic search for clusters of galaxies in the CFHTLS. We used the Le Phare photometric redshifts for the galaxies…

Context: In 2.2m MPG-ESO/WFI data we discovered several mass peaks through weak lensing, forming a possible supercluster at redshift 0.45. Through multi-colour wide-field imaging with CFHT/Megaprime and INT/WFC we identify early-type…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-25 Mischa Schirmer , Hendrik Hildebrandt , Konrad Kuijken , Thomas Erben

Recently, a number of methods have emerged to detect galaxy clusters solely through their weak lensing signal. Using the recently-introduced wavelet multi-scale detection method, we focus here on the potential for the use of tomographic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 L. Chappuis , S. Pires , G. W. Pratt , G. Leroy , A. Daurelle , C. Giocoli , C. Carbone

We have developed a method for detecting clusters in large imaging surveys, based on the detection of structures in galaxy density maps made in slices of photometric redshifts. This method was first applied to the Canada France Hawaii…

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

We study the potential of weak lensing surveys to detect clusters of galaxies, using a fast Particle Mesh cosmological N-body simulation algorithm specifically tailored to investigate the statistics of these mass-selected clusters. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Joseph F. Hennawi , David N. Spergel

We present a weak lensing analysis for galaxy clusters from the APEX-SZ survey. For $39$ massive galaxy clusters that were observed via the Sunyaev-Zel\textquotesingle dovich effect (SZE) with the APEX telescope, we analyse deep optical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-28 Matthias Klein , Holger Israel , Aarti Nagarajan , Frank Bertoldi , Florian Pacaud , Adrian T. Lee , Martin Sommer , Kaustuv Basu

We present a new high-precision parametric strong lensing model of the galaxy cluster MACS J0416.1-2403, at z=0.396, which takes advantage of the MUSE Deep Lensed Field (MDLF), with 17.1h integration in the northeast region of the cluster,…