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The technique of weak-lensing aperture mass densitometry, so called the zeta-statistic, has recently been popular in actual observations for measurement of individual cluster mass. It has however been anticipated that the line-of-sight…

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Bayesian analysis of weak gravitational lensing and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich data for six galaxy clusters

We present an analysis of observations made with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI) and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) of six galaxy clusters in a redshift range of 0.16--0.41. The cluster gas is modelled using the…

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Galaxy clustering, photometric redshifts and diagnosis of systematics in the DES Science Verification data

We study the clustering of galaxies detected at $i<22.5$ in the Science Verification observations of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). Two-point correlation functions are measured using $2.3\times 10^6$ galaxies over a contiguous 116 deg$^2$…

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Sensitive 3mm Imaging of Discrete Sources in the Fields of tSZ-Selected Galaxy Clusters

In this paper we present the results of a blind survey for compact sources in 243 Galaxy clusters that were identified using the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (tSZ). The survey was carried out at 90 GHz using MUSTANG2 on the Green Bank…

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Shear-Selected Clusters From the Deep Lens Survey III: Masses from Weak Lensing

We present weak lensing mass estimates of seven shear-selected galaxy cluster candidates from the Deep Lens Survey. The clusters were previously identified as mass peaks in convergence maps of 8.6 sq. deg of R band imaging, and followed up…

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Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Weak Lensing and Galaxy Clustering Cosmological Analysis Framework

We present the methodology for the weak lensing and galaxy clustering analyses of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 6 data set. In this work, we design and validate the analysis pipeline for the cosmic shear, galaxy clustering plus…

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Interacting Dark Sector (ETHOS $n=0$): Cosmological Constraints from SPT Cluster Abundance with DES and HST Weak Lensing Data

We use galaxy cluster abundance measurements from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) enhanced by Multi-Component Matched Filter (MCMF) confirmation and complemented with mass information obtained using weak-lensing data from Dark Energy Survey…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-12 A. Mazoun , S. Bocquet , J. J. Mohr , M. Garny , H. Rubira , M. Klein , L. E. Bleem , S. Grandis , T. Schrabback , M. Aguena , S. Allam , S. W. Allen , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , D. Brooks , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , T. M. Davis , S. Desai , J. De Vicente , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , S. Everett , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , J. Garcia-Bellido , R. Gassis , G. Giannini , D. Grün , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , S. Lee , M. Lima , G. Mahler , J. L. Marshall , R. Miquel , J. Myles , R. L. C. Ogando , M. E. S. Pereira , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Porredon , C. L. Reichardt , A. K. Romer , S. Samuroff , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Schubnell , M. Smith , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , A. Tamosiunas , G. Tarle , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , N. Weaverdyck , J. Weller , P. Wiseman

Validation of the DESI-DR1 3x2-pt analysis: scale cut and shear ratio tests

Combined survey analyses of galaxy clustering and weak gravitational lensing (3x2-pt studies) will allow new and accurate tests of the standard cosmological model. However, careful validation is necessary to ensure that these cosmological…

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Wide-Field Lensing Mass Maps from DES Science Verification Data

We present a mass map reconstructed from weak gravitational lensing shear measurements over 139 sq. deg from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Science Verification data. The mass map probes both luminous and dark matter, thus providing a tool…

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Comparison of Hectospec Virial Masses with SZE Measurements

We present the first comparison of virial masses of galaxy clusters with their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (SZE) signals. We study 15 clusters from the Hectospec Cluster Survey (HeCS) with MMT/Hectospec spectroscopy and published SZE signals.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Kenneth Rines , Margaret J. Geller , Antonaldo Diaferio

The Normal Cluster Weak Lensing Survey: Mass Profiles and M/L Ratios of Eight Clusters at z=0.2

We present a survey of mass profiles and mass-to-light ratios of eight typical galaxy clusters at a common redshift (z ~ 0.2). We use weak gravitational lensing as a probe because it is unique in avoiding any assumptions about the dynamical…

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Constraints on Neutrino Masses from Weak Lensing

The weak lensing (WL) distortions of distant galaxy images are sensitive to neutrino masses by probing the suppression effect on clustering strengths of total matter in large-scale structure. We use the latest measurement of WL…

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Cosmology with weak-lensing peak counts

Weak gravitational lensing (WL) causes distortions of galaxy images and probes massive structures on large scales, allowing us to understand the late-time evolution of the Universe. One way to extract the cosmological information from WL is…

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A weak gravitational lensing recalibration of the scaling relations linking the gas properties of dark halos to their mass

We use weak gravitational lensing to measure mean mass profiles around Locally Brightest Galaxies (LBGs). These are selected from the SDSS/DR7 spectroscopic and photometric catalogues to be brighter than any neighbour projected within 1.0…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-15 Wenting Wang , Simon White , Rachel Mandelbaum , Bruno Henriques , Michael E. Anderson , Jiaxin Han

Galaxy cluster strong lensing cosmography: cosmological constraints from a sample of regular galaxy clusters

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

A Detection of CMB-Cluster Lensing using Polarization Data from SPTpol

We report the first detection of gravitational lensing due to galaxy clusters using only the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The lensing signal is obtained using a new estimator that extracts the lensing dipole…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 S. Raghunathan , S. Patil , E. Baxter , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , T. M. Crawford , G. P. Holder , T. McClintock , C. L. Reichardt , T. N. Varga , N. Whitehorn , P. A. R. Ade , S. Allam , A. J. Anderson , J. E. Austermann , S. Avila , J. S. Avva , D. Bacon , J. A. Beall , A. N. Bender , F. Bianchini , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. E. Carlstrom , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. L. Chang , H. C. Chiang , R. Citron , M. Costanzi , A. T. Crites , L. N. da Costa , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , M. A. Dobbs , P. Doel , S. Everett , A. E. Evrard , C. Feng , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. Gallicchio , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , E. M. George , T. Giannantonio , A. Gilbert , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , N. Gupta , G. Gutierrez , T. de Haan , N. W. Halverson , N. Harrington , J. W. Henning , G. C. Hilton , D. L. Hollowood , W. L. Holzapfel , K. Honscheid , J. D. Hrubes , N. Huang , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , T. Jeltema , M. Carrasco Kind , L. Knox , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , A. T. Lee , D. Li , M. Lima , A. Lowitz , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , J. J. McMahon , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , S. S. Meyer , R. Miquel , L. M. Mocanu , J. J. Mohr , J. Montgomery , C. Corbett Moran , A. Nadolski , T. Natoli , J. P. Nibarger , G. Noble , V. Novosad , R. L. C. Ogando , S. Padin , A. A. Plazas , C. Pryke , D. Rapetti , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , A. Carnero Rosell , E. Rozo , J. E. Ruhl , E. S. Rykoff , B. R. Saliwanchik , E. Sanchez , J. T. Sayre , V. Scarpine , K. K. Schaffer , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , C. Sievers , G. Smecher , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , A. A. Stark , K. T. Story , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , C. Tucker , K. Vanderlinde , T. Veach , J. De Vicente , J. D. Vieira , V. Vikram , G. Wang , W. L. K. Wu , V. Yefremenko , Y. Zhang

Impact of Systematic Errors in Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Surveys of Galaxy Clusters

Future high-resolution microwave background measurements hold the promise of detecting galaxy clusters throughout our Hubble volume through their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) signature, down to a given limiting flux. The number density of galaxy…

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Dark Energy Constraints from Weak Lensing Cross-Correlation Cosmography

We present a method to implement the idea of Jain & Taylor to constrain cosmological parameters with weak gravitational lensing. Photometric redshift information on foreground galaxies is used to produce templates of the mass structure at…

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Imaging the Thermal and Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Signals in a Sample of Ten Massive Galaxy Clusters: Constraints on Internal Velocity Structures and Bulk Velocities

We have imaged the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect signals at 140 and 270 GHz towards ten galaxy clusters with Bolocam and AzTEC/ASTE. We also used Planck data to constrain the signal at large angular scales, Herschel-SPIRE images to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 Jack Sayers , Alfredo Montaña , Tony Mroczkowski , Grant W. Wilson , Michael Zemcov , Adi Zitrin , Nathália Cibirka , Sunil Golwala , David Hughes , Daisuke Nagai , Erik D. Reese , David Sánchez , John Zuhone

Constraints on cosmology and baryonic feedback with joint analysis of Dark Energy Survey Year 3 lensing data and ACT DR6 thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect observations

We present a joint analysis of weak gravitational lensing (shear) data obtained from the first three years of observations by the Dark Energy Survey and thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect measurements from a combination of Atacama…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-10 S. Pandey , J. C. Hill , A. Alarcon , O. Alves , A. Amon , D. Anbajagane , F. Andrade-Oliveira , N. Battaglia , E. Baxter , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , J. Blazek , S. L. Bridle , E. Calabrese , H. Camacho , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , R. Chen , P. Chintalapati , A. Choi , J. Cordero , W. Coulton , M. Crocce , C. Davis , J. DeRose , M. Devlin , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , T. F. Eifler , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , X. Fang , A. Ferté , P. Fosalba , O. Friedrich , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , G. Giannini , V. Gluscevic , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , B. Ried Guachalla , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , H. Huang , E. M. Huff , D. Huterer , B. Jain , M. Jarvis , E. Krause , N. Kuropatkin , A. Kusiak , P. Leget , P. Lemos , A. R. Liddle , M. Lokken , N. MacCrann , J. McCullough , K. Moodley , J. Muir , J. Myles , A. Navarro-Alsina , Y. Omori , Y. Park , B. Partridge , A. Porredon , J. Prat , M. Raveri , A. Refregier , R. P. Rollins , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , S. Samuroff , J. Sanchez , C. Sánchez , L. F. Secco , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , S. Shaikh , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , Cristóbal Sifón , C. To , A. Troja , M. A. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , T. N. Varga , N. Weaverdyck , R. H. Wechsler , E. J. Wollack , B. Yanny , B. Yin , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz , S. S. Allam , D. Bacon , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. Carretero , R. Cawthon , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , M. E. da Silva Pereira , T. M. Davis , S. Desai , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , N. Jeffrey , S. Lee , J. L. Marshall , J. Mena-Fernández , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. L. C. Ogando , A. A. Plazas Malag'on , A. K. Romer , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , M. Smith , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , D. Thomas , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , J. Weller , P. Wiseman