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We present a detection of the enhancement in the number densities of background galaxies induced from lensing magnification and use it to test the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE) inferred masses in a sample of 19 galaxy clusters with median…

We use cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps from the 500 deg$^{2}$ SPTpol survey to measure the stacked lensing convergence of galaxy clusters from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year-3 redMaPPer (RM) cluster catalog. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-21 S. Raghunathan , S. Patil , E. Baxter , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , T. L. Chou , T. M. Crawford , G. P. Holder , T. McClintock , C. L. Reichardt , E. Rozo , T. N. Varga , T. M. C. Abbott , P. A. R. Ade , S. Allam , A. J. Anderson , J. Annis , J. E. Austermann , S. Avila , J. A. Beall , K. Bechtol , A. N. Bender , G. Bernstein , E. Bertin , F. Bianchini , L. Bleem , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. E. Carlstrom , J. Carretero , C. L. Chang , H. C. Chiang , H-M. Cho , R. Citron , A. T. Crites , C. E. Cunha , L. N. da Costa , C. Davis , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , M. A. Dobbs , P. Doel , T. F. Eifler , W. Everett , A. E. Evrard , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. Gallicchio , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , E. M. George , A. Gilbert , R. A. Gruendl , D. Gruen , J. Gschwend , N. Gupta , G. Gutierrez , T. de Haan , N. W. Halverson , N. Harrington , W. G. Hartley , J. W. Henning , G. C. Hilton , D. L. Hollowood , W. L. Holzapfel , K. Honscheid , Z. Hou , B. Hoyle , J. D. Hrubes , N. Huang , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , A. G. Kim , M. Carrasco Kind , L. Knox , A. Kovacs , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , A. T. Lee , M. Lima , T. S. Li , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , J. J. McMahon , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , S. S. Meyer , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , L. Mocanu , J. Montgomery , A. Nadolski , T. Natoli , J. P. Nibarger , V. Novosad , S. Padin , A. A. Plazas , C. Pryke , D. Rapetti , A. K. Romer , A. Carnero Rosell , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , E. Sanchez , J. T. Sayre , V. Scarpine , K. K. Schaffer , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , G. Smecher , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , A. A. Stark , K. T. Story , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. Tucker , K. Vanderlinde , J. De Vicente , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , W. L. K. Wu , Y. Zhang

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…

Thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) power spectrum is a powerful probe of the present-day amplitude of matter density fluctuations, and has been measured up to $\ell\approx 10^3$ from the {\it Planck} data. The largest systematic uncertainty in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-14 Ryu Makiya , Chiaki Hikage , Eiichiro Komatsu

We present weak gravitational lensing measurements of a sample of 157 clusters within the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS), detected with a $>5\sigma$ thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) signal by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). Using a…

Recent detections of the cross-correlation of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect and weak gravitational lensing (WL) enable unique studies of cluster astrophysics and cosmology. In this work, we present constraints on the amplitude…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-25 Ken Osato , Samuel Flender , Daisuke Nagai , Masato Shirasaki , Naoki Yoshida

The sensitivity and wide area reached by ongoing and future wide-field optical surveys allows for the detection of an increasing number of galaxy clusters uniquely through their weak lensing (WL) signal. This motivates the development of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-18 G. Leroy , S. Pires , G. W. Pratt , C. Giocoli

[Abridged] We present a comparison between weak-lensing (WL) and X-ray mass estimates of a sample of numerically simulated clusters. The sample consists on the 20 most massive objects at redshift z=0.25 and Mvir > 5 x 10^{14} Msun h^{-1}.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 E. Rasia , M. Meneghetti , R. Martino , S. Borgani , A. Bonafede , K. Dolag , S. Ettori , D. Fabjan , C. Giocoli , P. Mazzotta , J. Merten , M. Radovich , L. Tornatore

We show that the abundance and redshift distribution ($dN/dz$) of galaxy clusters in future high--yield cluster surveys, combined with the spatial power spectrum ($P_c(k)$) of the same clusters, can place significant constraints on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Sheng Wang , Justin Khoury , Zoltan Haiman , Morgan May

(Abridged) We quantify the bias and scatter in galaxy cluster masses and concentrations derived from an idealised mock weak gravitational lensing (WL) survey, and their effect on the cluster mass-concentration relation. For this, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-14 Yannick M. Bahé , Ian G. McCarthy , Lindsay J. King

This paper presents the results of a systematic study of projection biases in the Weak Lensing analysis of cosmic shear and the combination of galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing using data collected during the first-year of running…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-27 P. R. V. Chintalapati , G. Gutierrez , M. H. L. S. Wang

We present the first cosmology results from large-scale structure in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) spanning 5000 deg$^2$. We perform an analysis combining three two-point correlation functions (3$\times$2pt): (i) cosmic shear using 100…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-22 DES Collaboration , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , A. Alarcon , S. Allam , O. Alves , A. Amon , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Annis , S. Avila , D. Bacon , E. Baxter , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , S. Bhargava , S. Birrer , J. Blazek , A. Brandao-Souza , S. L. Bridle , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , H. Camacho , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , A. Chen , R. Chen , A. Choi , C. Conselice , J. Cordero , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , M. E. da Silva Pereira , C. Davis , T. M. Davis , J. De Vicente , J. DeRose , S. Desai , E. Di Valentino , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , T. F. Eifler , F. Elsner , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , A. E. Evrard , X. Fang , A. Farahi , E. Fernandez , I. Ferrero , A. Ferté , P. Fosalba , O. Friedrich , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , G. Giannini , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , E. M. Huff , D. Huterer , B. Jain , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , N. Jeffrey , T. Jeltema , A. Kovacs , E. Krause , R. Kron , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , P. -F. Leget , P. Lemos , A. R. Liddle , C. Lidman , M. Lima , H. Lin , N. MacCrann , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , J. McCullough , P. Melchior , J. Mena-Fernández , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , J. Muir , J. Myles , S. Nadathur , A. Navarro-Alsina , R. C. Nichol , R. L. C. Ogando , Y. Omori , A. Palmese , S. Pandey , Y. Park , F. Paz-Chinchón , D. Petravick , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Porredon , J. Prat , M. Raveri , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , R. P. Rollins , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , S. Samuroff , C. Sánchez , E. Sanchez , J. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , D. Scolnic , L. F. Secco , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , M. Tabbutt , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , A. Troja , M. A. Troxel , D. L. Tucker , I. Tutusaus , T. N. Varga , A. R. Walker , N. Weaverdyck , R. Wechsler , J. Weller , B. Yanny , B. Yin , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz

We present measurements of the radial profiles of the mass and galaxy number density around Sunyaev-Zel'dovich-selected clusters using both weak lensing and galaxy counts. The clusters are selected from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 T. Shin , B. Jain , S. Adhikari , E. J. Baxter , C. Chang , S. Pandey , A. Salcedo , D. H. Weinberg , A. Amsellem , N. Battaglia , M. Belyakov , T. Dacunha , S. Goldstein , A. V. Kravtsov , T. N. Varga , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , A. Alarcon , S. Allam , A. Amon , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Annis , D. Bacon , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , S. Bocquet , J. R. Bond , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , R. Chen , A. Choi , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , J. DeRose , S. Desai , J. De Vicente , M. J. Devlin , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , S. Ferraro , I. Ferrero , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , P. A. Gallardo , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , J. C. Hill , M. Hilton , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , J. P. Hughes , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , T. Jeltema , B. J. Koopman , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , M. Lima , M. Lokken , N. MacCrann , M. S. Madhavacheril , M. A. G. Maia , J. McCullough , J. McMahon , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , K. Moodley , R. Morgan , J. Myles , F. Nati , A. Navarro-Alsina , M. D. Niemack , R. L. C. Ogando , L. A. Page , A. Palmese , B. Partridge , F. Paz-Chinchón , M. E. S. Pereira , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , J. Prat , M. Raveri , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , R. P. Rollins , A. K. Romer , E. S. Rykoff , M. Salatino , C. Sánchez , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , V. Scarpine , A. Schillaci , L. F. Secco , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , B. D. Sherwin , C. Sifón , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , S. T. Staggs , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , M. A. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , E. M. Vavagiakis , J. Weller , E. J. Wollack , B. Yanny , B. Yin , Y. Zhang

The Canadian Cluster Comparison Project is a comprehensive multi-wavelength survey targeting 50 massive X-ray selected clusters of galaxies to examine baryonic tracers of cluster mass and to probe the cluster-to-cluster variation in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Henk Hoekstra , Andisheh Mahdavi , Arif Babul , Chris Bildfell

We perform a measurement of the mass--richness relation of the redMaPPer galaxy cluster catalogue using weak lensing data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We have carefully characterized a broad range of systematic uncertainties,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Melanie Simet , Tom McClintock , Rachel Mandelbaum , Eduardo Rozo , Eli Rykoff , Erin Sheldon , Risa H. Wechsler

Using $\sim$140 deg$^2$ Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) survey data, we stack the weak lensing (WL) signal around five Planck clusters found within the footprint. This yields a 15$\sigma$ detection of the mean Planck cluster mass density…

We present a stacked lensing analysis of 96 galaxy clusters selected by the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect in maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We select foreground galaxy clusters with a $5\sigma$-level SZ threshold in…

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