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Weak lensing causes spatially coherent fluctuations in flux of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). This lensing magnification allows for weak lensing measurement independent of cosmic shear. It is free of shape measurement errors associated with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Pengjie Zhang

We present a study of the dependencies of shear bias on simulation (input) and measured (output) parameters, noise, point-spread function anisotropy, pixel size, and the model bias coming from two different and independent galaxy shape…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Arnau Pujol , Florent Sureau , Jerome Bobin , Frederic Courbin , Marc Gentile , Martin Kilbinger

Weak gravitational lensing has the potential to constrain cosmological parameters to high precision. However, as shown by the Shear TEsting Programmes (STEP) and GRavitational lEnsing Accuracy Testing (GREAT) Challenges, measuring galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Tomasz Kacprzak , Joe Zuntz , Barnaby Rowe , Sarah Bridle , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara , Lisa Voigt , Michael Hirsch

Weak gravitational lensing (WL) peak statistics capture cosmic non-linear structures and can provide additional cosmological information complementary to cosmic shear two-point correlation analyses. They have been applied to different WL…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Tianyu Zhang , Xiangkun Liu , Ziwei Li , Chengliang Wei , Guoliang Li , Yu Luo , Xi Kang , Zuhui Fan

We extend the 3-point intrinsic alignment self-calibration technique to the gravitational shear-intrinsic ellipticity-intrinsic ellipticity (GII) bispectrum. The proposed technique will allow the measurement and removal of the GII intrinsic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 M. A. Troxel , Mustapha Ishak

Interference alignment (IA) has been shown to achieve the maximum achievable degrees of freedom in the interference channel. This results in sum rate scaling linearly with the number of users in the high signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) regime.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-15 Omar El Ayach , Steven W. Peters , Robert W. Heath

Correlations between the intrinsic shapes of galaxies and the large-scale galaxy density field provide an important tool to investigate galaxy intrinsic alignments, which constitute a major astrophysical systematic in cosmological weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-01 B. Joachimi , R. Mandelbaum , F. B. Abdalla , S. L. Bridle

We investigate the impact of the observed correlation between a galaxies shape and its surrounding density field on the measurement of third order weak lensing shear statistics. Using numerical simulations, we estimate the systematic error…

We study the parameter estimation bias induced by intrinsic alignments on a Euclid-like weak lensing survey. For the intrinsic alignment signal we assume a composite alignment model for elliptical and spiral galaxies using tidal shearing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-15 Robert Reischke , Björn Malte Schäfer

We propose a new technique for weak gravitational lensing in the radio band making use of polarization information. Since the orientation of a galaxy's polarized emission is both unaffected by lensing and is related to the galaxy's…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Michael L. Brown , Richard A. Battye

In this third paper of a series on radio weak lensing for cosmology with the Square Kilometre Array, we scrutinise synergies between cosmic shear measurements in the radio and optical/near-IR bands for mitigating systematic effects. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 Stefano Camera , Ian Harrison , Anna Bonaldi , Michael L. Brown

We estimate the amplitude of the source-lens clustering bias and of the intrinsic-alignment bias of weak lensing estimators of the two-point and three-point convergence and cosmic-shear correlation functions. We use a linear galaxy bias…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-17 Patrick Valageas

Cosmic shear surveys have great promise as tools for precision cosmology, but can be subject to systematic errors including intrinsic ellipticity correlations of the source galaxies. The intrinsic alignments are believed to be small for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-28 Christopher M. Hirata , Uros Seljak

Weak lensing experiments are a powerful probe of cosmology through their measurement of the mass distribution of the universe. A challenge for this technique is to control systematic errors that occur when measuring the shapes of distant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Alexandre Refregier , Tomasz Kacprzak , Adam Amara , Sarah Bridle , Barnaby Rowe

The intrinsic alignment of galaxies with the large-scale density field is an important astrophysical contaminant in upcoming weak lensing surveys. We present detailed measurements of the galaxy intrinsic alignments and associated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-12 Ananth Tenneti , Sukhdeep Singh , Rachel Mandelbaum , Tiziana Di Matteo , Yu Feng , Nishikanta Khandai

Measurements of intrinsic alignments of galaxy shapes with the large-scale density field, and the inferred intrinsic alignments model parameters, are sensitive to the shape measurement methods used. In this paper we measure the intrinsic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-18 Sukhdeep Singh , Rachel Mandelbaum

We report the first evidence for intrinsic alignment (IA) of red galaxies at $z>1$. We measure the gravitational shear-intrinsic ellipticity (GI) cross-correlation function at $z\sim1.3$ using galaxy positions from the FastSound…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-04 Motonari Tonegawa , Teppei Okumura

We study the impact of modified gravity of the Horndeski class, on intrinsic shape correlations in cosmic shear surveys. As intrinsic shape correlations (IAs) are caused by tidal gravitational fields acting on galaxies as a collection of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-26 Robert Reischke , Victor Bosca , Tim Tugendhat , Björn Malte Schäfer

We consider how upcoming photometric large scale structure surveys can be optimized to measure the properties of dark energy and possible cosmic scale modifications to General Relativity in light of realistic astrophysical and instrumental…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Donnacha Kirk , Istvan Laszlo , Sarah Bridle , Rachel Bean

We present measurements of the intrinsic alignments (IAs) of the star-forming gas of galaxies in the EAGLE simulations. Radio continuum imaging of this gas enables cosmic shear measurements complementary to optical surveys. We measure the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-16 Alexander D. Hill , Robert A. Crain , Ian G. McCarthy , Shaun T. Brown