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To accomplish correct Bayesian inference from weak lensing shear data requires a complete statistical description of the data. The natural framework to do this is a Bayesian Hierarchical Model, which divides the chain of reasoning into…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-18 Alan Heavens , Justin Alsing , Andrew Jaffe , Till Hoffmann , Alina Kiessling , Benjamin Wandelt

Here we present a number of improvements to weak lensing 3D power spectrum analysis, 3D cosmic shear, that uses the shape and redshift information of every galaxy to constrain cosmological parameters. We show how photometric redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 T. D. Kitching , A. F. Heavens , L. Miller

In this paper, we study the cosmological implications of the 100 square degree Weak Lensing survey (the CFHTLS-Wide, RCS, VIRMOS-DESCART and GaBoDS surveys). We combine these weak lensing data with the cosmic microwave background (CMB)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-07 Hong Li , Jie Liu , Jun-Qing Xia , Lei Sun , Zu-Hui Fan , Charling Tao , Andre Tilquin , Xinmin Zhang

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

We present a new method to extract cosmological constraints from weak lensing (WL) peak counts, which we denote as `the hierarchical algorithm'. The idea of this method is to combine information from WL maps sequentially smoothed with a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Laura Marian , Robert E. Smith , Stefan Hilbert , Peter Schneider

We forecast constraints on cosmological parameters with primary CMB anisotropy information and weak lensing reconstruction with a future post-Planck CMB experiment, the Cosmic Origins Explorer (COrE), using oscillation data on the neutrino…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-04 Alex C. Hall , Anthony Challinor

We present cosmological parameter constraints from a tomographic weak gravitational lensing analysis of ~450deg$^2$ of imaging data from the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS). For a flat $\Lambda$CDM cosmology with a prior on $H_0$ that encompasses…

We derive constraints on cosmological parameters using the power spectrum of galaxy clustering measured from the final two-degree field galaxy redshift survey (2dFGRS) and a compilation of measurements of the temperature power spectrum and…

Cosmic shear tomography has emerged as one of the most promising tools to both investigate the nature of dark energy and discriminate between General Relativity and modified gravity theories. In order to successfully achieve these goals,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 V. F. Cardone , M. Martinelli , E. Calabrese , S. Galli , Z. Huang , R. Maoli , A. Melchiorri , R. Scaramella

Standard cosmological weak lensing analyses using cosmic shear are inevitably sensitive to small-scale, non-linear clustering from low-redshift structures. The need to adequately model the clustering of matter on this non-linear regime,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-25 Giulia Piccirilli , Matteo Zennaro , Carlos García-García , David Alonso

Recently, it has been shown that cross-correlating CMB lensing and 3D cosmic shear allows to considerably tighten cosmological parameter constraints. We investigate whether similar improvement can be achieved in a conventional tomographic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-27 Philipp M. Merkel , Bjoern Malte Schaefer

We estimate uncertainties of cosmological parameters for phenomenological interacting dark energy models using weak lensing convergence power spectrum and bispectrum. We focus on the bispectrum tomography and examine how well the weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-31 Rui An , Chang Feng , Bin Wang

The current methods available to estimate gravitational shear from astronomical images of galaxies introduce systematic errors which can affect the accuracy of weak lensing cosmological constraints. We study the impact of KSB shape…

The combination of current large scale structure and cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies data can place strong constraints on the sum of the neutrino masses. Here we show that future cosmic shear experiments, in combination with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-30 Francesco De Bernardis , Thomas D. Kitching , Alan Heavens , Alessandro Melchiorri

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

We use measurements of cosmic shear from CFHTLS, combined with WMAP-5 cosmic microwave background anisotropy data, baryonic acoustic oscillations from SDSS and 2dFGRS and supernovae data from SNLS and Gold-set, to constrain the neutrino…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have recently been demonstrated on synthetic data to improve upon the precision of cosmological inference. In particular they have the potential to yield more precise cosmological constraints from weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-17 Janis Fluri , Tomasz Kacprzak , Aurelien Lucchi , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara , Thomas Hofmann , Aurel Schneider

We study the statistics of peaks in a weak lensing reconstructed mass map of the first 450 square degrees of the Kilo Degree Survey. The map is computed with aperture masses directly applied to the shear field with an NFW-like compensated…

Standard cosmic microwave background (CMB) analyses constrain cosmological and astrophysical parameters by fitting parametric models to multifrequency power spectra (MFPS). However, such methods do not optimally weight maps in power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-25 Kristen M. Surrao , J. Colin Hill