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Weak gravitational lensing has proven to be a powerful tool to map directly the distribution of dark matter in the Universe. The technique, currently used, relies on the accurate measurement of the gravitational shear that corresponds to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 S. Pires , A. Amara

Gravitational lensing is potentially able to observe mass-selected halos, and to measure the projected cluster mass function. An optimal mass-selection requires a quantitative understanding of the noise behavior in mass maps. This paper is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 L. Van Waerbeke

We update the field-level inference code KARMMA to enable tomographic forward-modelling of shear maps. Our code assumes a lognormal prior on the convergence field, and properly accounts for the cross-covariance in the lensing signal across…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-11 Supranta S. Boruah , Pier Fiedorowicz , Eduardo Rozo

The weak distortions of high-redshift galaxies caused by gravitational light deflection near clusters of galaxies can be used to reconstruct the projected (two-dimensional) surface mass density of intermediate redshift clusters. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Carolin Seitz , Peter Schneider

We address the inverse problem of cosmic large-scale structure reconstruction from a Bayesian perspective. For a linear data model, a number of known and novel reconstruction schemes, which differ in terms of the underlying signal prior,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 F. S. Kitaura , T. A. Ensslin

Removing the shape noise from the observed weak lensing field, i.e., denoising, enhances the potential of WL by accessing information at small scales where the shape noise dominates without denoising. We utilise two machine learning (ML)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Shohei D. Aoyama , Ken Osato , Masato Shirasaki

We develop an algorithm for the reconstruction of the two-dimensional mass distribution of a gravitational lens from the observable distortion of background galaxies. From the measured reduced shear, the lens mapping is obtained, from which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tarun Deep Saini , Somak Raychaudhury

We present the largest Wiener reconstruction of the cosmic density field made to date. The reconstruction is based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data release 6 covering the northern Galactic cap. We use a novel supersampling algorithm to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-28 Francisco S. Kitaura , Jens Jasche , Cheng Li , Torsten A. Ensslin , R. Benton Metcalf , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Gerard Lemson , Simon D. M. White

We present a general linear algorithm for measuring the surface mass density 1-\kappa from the observable reduced shear g=\gamma/(1-\kappa) in the strong lensing regime. We show that in general, the observed polarization field can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ue-Li Pen

The analysis of whole-sky galaxy surveys commonly suffers from the problems of shot-noise and incomplete sky coverage (e.g. at the Zone of Avoidance). The orthogonal set of spherical harmonics is utilized here to expand the observed galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 O. Lahav , K. B. Fisher , Y. Hoffman , C. A. Scharf , S. Zaroubi

We investigate the practical implementation of Taylor's (2002) 3-dimensional gravitational potential reconstruction method using weak gravitational lensing, together with the requisite reconstruction of the lensing potential. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. J. Bacon , A. N. Taylor

The mergers of supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) can serve as standard sirens: the gravitational wave (GW) analog of standard candles. The upcoming space-borne GW detectors will be able to discover such systems and estimate their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-09 Zhao-Feng Wu , Lok W. L. Chan , Martin Hendry , Otto A. Hannuksela

Gravitational lensing distorts the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies and imprints a characteristic pattern onto it. The distortions depend on the projected matter density between today and redshift $z \sim 1100$. In this paper…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-25 Matias Zaldarriaga , Uros Seljak

Microscopy is a powerful visualization tool in biology, enabling the study of cells, tissues, and the fundamental biological processes; yet, the observed images typically suffer from blur and background noise. In this work, we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-15 Valeriya Pronina , Filippos Kokkinos , Dmitry V. Dylov , Stamatios Lefkimmiatis

Reconstructing the large scale density and velocity fields from surveys of galaxy distances, is a major challenge for cosmography. The data is very noisy and sparse. Estimated distances, and thereby peculiar velocities, are strongly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 Aurélien Valade , Noam I Libeskind , Yehuda Hoffman , Simon Pfeifer

Weak gravitational lensing has become a common tool to constrain the cosmological model. The majority of the methods to derive constraints on cosmological parameters use second-order statistics of the cosmic shear. Despite their success,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Sandrine Pires , Adrienne Leonard , Jean-Luc Starck

This is the third in a series of papers that develop a new and flexible model to predict weak-lensing (WL) peak counts, which have been shown to be a very valuable non-Gaussian probe of cosmology. In this paper, we compare the cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-03 Chieh-An Lin , Martin Kilbinger , Sandrine Pires

We present a simulation-based cosmological analysis using a combination of Gaussian and non-Gaussian statistics of the weak lensing mass (convergence) maps from the first three years (Y3) of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We implement: 1)…

Optimal extraction of cosmological information from observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background critically relies on our ability to accurately undo the distortions caused by weak gravitational lensing. In this work, we demonstrate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-07 Thomas Flöss , William R. Coulton , Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Benjamin D. Wandelt

To date weak gravitational lensing surveys have typically been restricted to small fields of view, such that the $\textit{flat-sky approximation}$ has been sufficiently satisfied. However, with Stage IV surveys ($\textit{e.g. LSST}$ and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-19 Matthew A. Price , Jason D. McEwen , L. Pratley , Thomas D. Kitching