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Lensing studies are typically carried out around high density regions, such as groups and clusters, where the lensing signals are significant and indicative of rich density structures. However, a more comprehensive test of the cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-04 Yiqi Huang , Fuyu Dong , Jun Zhang , Cong Liu , Hekun Li

Higher-order, non-Gaussian aspects of the large-scale structure carry valuable information on structure formation and cosmology, which is complementary to second-order statistics. In this work we measure second- and third-order weak-lensing…

We present measurements of the galaxy bias $b$ and the galaxy-matter cross-correlation coefficient $r$ for the BOSS LOWZ luminous red galaxy sample. Using a new statistical weak lensing analysis of the Red Sequence Cluster Lensing Survey…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 A. Buddendiek , P. Schneider , H. Hildebrandt , C. Blake , A. Choi , T. Erben , C. Heymans , L. van Waerbeke , M. Viola , J. Harnois-Deraps , L. Koens , R. Nakajima

We investigate lensing reconstruction using the clustered galaxy distribution as a source field, using both the traditional cosmic microwave background quadratic estimator and a shear-only estimator. We calculate the expected…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-13 Brandon Buncher , Gilbert Holder , Selim Hotinli

The capacity of Stage IV lensing surveys to measure the neutrino mass sum and differentiate between the normal and inverted mass hierarchies depends on the impact of nuisance parameters describing small-scale baryonic astrophysics and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-09 David Copeland , Andy Taylor , Alex Hall

We study the effect of magnification in the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 analysis of galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing, using two different lens samples: a sample of Luminous red galaxies, redMaGiC, and a sample with a…

In addition to the intrinsic clustering of galaxies themselves, the spatial distribution of galaxies observed in surveys is modulated by the presence of weak lensing due to matter in the foreground. This effect, known as magnification bias,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-09 Lukas Wenzl , Shi-Fan Chen , Rachel Bean

We present a formalism for jointly fitting pre- and post-reconstruction redshift-space clustering (RSD) and baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) plus gravitational lensing (of the CMB) that works directly with the observed 2-point statistics.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 Shi-Fan Chen , Martin White , Joseph DeRose , Nickolas Kokron

We measure the sum of the neutrino particle masses using the three-dimensional galaxy power spectrum of the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Data Release 9 (DR9) CMASS galaxy sample. Combined with the cosmic microwave…

Cluster strong lensing cosmography is a promising probe of the background geometry of the Universe and several studies have emerged, thanks to the increased quality of observations using space and ground-based telescopes. For the first…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 G. B. Caminha , S. H. Suyu , C. Grillo , P. Rosati

We develop a framework to study the relation between the stellar mass of a galaxy and the total mass of its host dark matter halo using galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements. We model a wide range of scales, roughly from…

Accurate measurement of the cluster mass function is a crucial element in efforts to constrain structure formation models, the normalisation of the matter power spectrum and the cosmological matter density, and the nature and evolution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Virginia L. Corless , Lindsay J. King

Evolution in the mass function of galaxy clusters sensitively traces both the expansion history of the Universe and cosmological structure formation. Robust cluster mass determinations are a key ingredient for a reliable measurement of this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Holger Israel , Thomas Erben , Thomas H. Reiprich , Alexey Vikhlinin , Craig L. Sarazin , Peter Schneider

We construct accurate emulators for the projected and redshift space galaxy correlation functions and excess surface density as measured by galaxy-galaxy lensing, based on Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) modeling. Using the complete…

The clustering of galaxy clusters is a powerful cosmological tool, which can help to break degeneracies between parameters when combined with other cosmological observables. We aim to demonstrate its potential in constraining cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-16 Alessandra Fumagalli , Matteo Costanzi , Alexandro Saro , Tiago Castro , Stefano Borgani

We present results of weak lensing cluster counts obtained from 11 sq.deg SuprimeCam data. Although the area is much smaller than previous work dealing with weak lensing peak statistics, the number density of galaxies usable for weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Takashi Hamana , Junya Sakurai , Michitaro Koike , Lance Miller

The properties of clusters of galaxies offer key insights into the assembly process of structure in the universe. Numerical simulations of cosmic structure formation in a hierarchical, dark matter dominated universe suggest that galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Julia M. Comerford , Priyamvada Natarajan

We present measurements of galaxy clustering from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), which is part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III). These use the Data Release 9 (DR9) CMASS sample, which contains 264,283…