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We study the cosmological information contained in the Minkowski Functionals (MFs) of weak gravitational lensing convergence maps. We show that the MFs provide strong constraints on the local type primordial non-Gaussianity parameter f_NL.…

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The upcoming WEAVE-QSO survey will target a high density of quasars over a large area, enabling the reconstruction of the 3D density field through Lyman-$\alpha$ tomography over unprecedented volumes smoothed on intermediate scales…

We consider compressive imaging problems, where images are reconstructed from a reduced number of linear measurements. Our objective is to improve over existing compressive imaging algorithms in terms of both reconstruction error and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Jin Tan , Yanting Ma , Dror Baron

We describe a novel end-to-end approach using Machine Learning to reconstruct the power spectrum of cosmological density perturbations at high redshift from observed quasar spectra. State-of-the-art cosmological simulations of structure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-21 Maria Han Veiga , Xi Meng , Oleg Y. Gnedin , Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Xun Huan

Weak gravitational lensing of the 21 cm radiation is expected to be an important cosmological probe for post-reionization physics. We investigate the reconstruction of the matter density perturbations using a quadratic minimum variance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 Priyesh Chakraborty , Anthony R. Pullen

Weak gravitational lensing of distant galaxies by foreground structures has proven to be a powerful tool to study the mass distribution in the universe. The advent of panoramic cameras on 4m class telescope has led to a first generation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 Henk Hoekstra

Number counts of galaxy clusters across redshift are a powerful cosmological probe, if a precise and accurate reconstruction of the underlying mass distribution is performed -- a challenge called mass calibration. With the advent of wide…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-17 S. Grandis , V. Ghirardini , S. Bocquet , C. Garrel , J. J. Mohr , A. Liu , M. Kluge , L. Kimmig , T. H. Reiprich , A. Alarcon , A. Amon , E. Artis , Y. E. Bahar , F. Balzer , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. Bernstein , E. Bulbul , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , R. Chen , I. Chiu , A. Choi , N. Clerc , J. Comparat , J. Cordero , C. Davis , J. Derose , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , A. Ferte , M. Gatt , G. Giannini , P. Giles , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , E. M. Huf , F. Kleinebreil , N. Kuropatkin , P. F. Leget , N. Maccrann , J. Mccullough , A. Merloni , J. Myles , K. Nandra , A. Navarro-Alsina , N. Okabe , F. Pacaud , S. Pandey , J. Prat , P. Predehl , M. Ramos , M. Raveri , R. P. Rollins , A. Roodman , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , C. Sanchez , J. Sanders , T. Schrabback , L. F. Secco , R. Seppi , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , M. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , T. N. Varga , H. Wu , B. Yanny , B. Yin , X. Zhang , Y. Zhang , O. Alves , S. Bhargava , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. Carretero , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , P. Doel , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , D. Friedel , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , N. Jeffrey , O. Lahav , S. Lee , J. L. Marshall , F. Menanteau , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. K. Romer , E. Sanchez , M. Schubnell , M. Smith , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , N. Weaverdyck , J. Weller

Diffusion models have been used in cosmological applications as a generative model for fast simulations and to reconstruct underlying cosmological fields or astrophysical images from noisy data. These two tasks are often treated as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-07 Supranta S. Boruah , Michael Jacob , Bhuvnesh Jain

Natural signals and images are well-known to be approximately sparse in transform domains such as Wavelets and DCT. This property has been heavily exploited in various applications in image processing and medical imaging. Compressed sensing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-26 Saiprasad Ravishankar , Yoram Bresler

Owing to their more extensive sky coverage and tighter control on systematic errors, future deep weak lensing surveys should provide a better statistical picture of the dark matter clustering beyond the level of the power spectrum. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Dipak Munshi , Joseph Smidt , Alan Heavens , Peter Coles , Asantha Cooray

We present the first detection of weak gravitational lensing around spectroscopically confirmed dwarf galaxies, using the large overlap between DESI DR1 spectroscopic data and DECADE/DES weak lensing catalogs. A clean dwarf galaxy sample…

When extracting the weak lensing shear signal, one may employ either locally normalized or globally normalized shear estimators. The former is the standard approach when estimating cluster masses, while the latter is the more common method…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Eduardo Rozo , Hao-Yi Wu , Fabian Schmidt

We present an efficient implementation of Wiener filtering of real-space linear field and optimal quadratic estimator of its power spectrum Band-powers. We first recast the field reconstruction into an optimization problem, which we solve…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Benjamin Horowitz , Uros Seljak , Grigor Aslanyan

[Abridged] Non-uniform sampling and gaps in sky coverage are common in galaxy redshift surveys, but these effects can degrade galaxy counts-in-cells and density estimates. We carry out a comparison of methods that aim to fill the gaps to…

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…

Optical imaging surveys measure both the galaxy density and the gravitational lensing-induced shear fields across the sky. Recently, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) collaboration used a joint fit to two-point correlations between these…

Weak lensing by large-scale structure is a powerful technique to probe the dark components of the universe. To understand the measurement process of weak lensing and the associated systematic effects, image simulations are becoming…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Claudio Bruderer , Chihway Chang , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara , Joel Berge , Lukas Gamper

Upcoming stage-IV surveys such as Euclid and Rubin will deliver vast amounts of high-precision data, opening new opportunities to constrain cosmological models with unprecedented accuracy. A key step in this process is the reconstruction of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Hubert Leterme , Andreas Tersenov , Jalal Fadili , Jean-Luc Starck

The detection of primordial B-modes, a key probe of cosmic inflation, is increasingly challenged by contamination from weak gravitational lensing B-modes induced by large-scale structure (LSS). We present a delensing pipeline designed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-27 Wen-Zheng Chen , Yang Liu , Yi-Ming Wang , Hong Li

Large-scale structure distorts the images of background galaxies, which allows one to measure directly the projected distribution of dark matter in the universe and determine its power spectrum. Here we address the question of how to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Uros Seljak