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Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Cosmology from Cosmic Shear and Robustness to Data Calibration

This work, together with its companion paper, Secco and Samuroff et al. (2021), presents the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 cosmic shear measurements and cosmological constraints based on an analysis of over 100 million source galaxies. With the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-03 A. Amon , D. Gruen , M. A. Troxel , N. MacCrann , S. Dodelson , A. Choi , C. Doux , L. F. Secco , S. Samuroff , E. Krause , J. Cordero , J. Myles , J. DeRose , R. H. Wechsler , M. Gatti , A. Navarro-Alsina , G. M. Bernstein , B. Jain , J. Blazek , A. Alarcon , A. Ferté , M. Raveri , P. Lemos , A. Campos , J. Prat , C. Sánchez , M. Jarvis , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , E. Baxter , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , S. L. Bridle , H. Camacho , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , R. Chen , P. Chintalapati , M. Crocce , C. Davis , H. T. Diehl , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , T. F. Eifler , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , X. Fang , P. Fosalba , O. Friedrich , G. Giannini , R. A. Gruendl , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , H. Huang , E. M. Huff , D. Huterer , N. Kuropatkin , P. -F. Leget , A. R. Liddle , J. McCullough , J. Muir , S. Pandey , Y. Park , A. Porredon , A. Refregier , R. P. Rollins , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , J. Sanchez , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , A. Troja , I. Tutusaus , T. N. Varga , N. Weaverdyck , B. Yanny , B. Yin , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , S. Bhargava , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , J. Carretero , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. J. James , R. Kron , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , M. Lima , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , D. Petravick , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. K. Romer , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , J. Weller

Hyper Suprime-Cam Year 3 Results: Cosmology from Cosmic Shear Two-point Correlation Functions

We perform a blinded cosmology analysis with cosmic shear two-point correlation functions (2PCFs) measured from more than 25 million galaxies in the Hyper Suprime-Cam three-year shear catalog in four tomographic redshift bins ranging from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-04 Xiangchong Li , Tianqing Zhang , Sunao Sugiyama , Roohi Dalal , Ryo Terasawa , Markus M. Rau , Rachel Mandelbaum , Masahiro Takada , Surhud More , Michael A. Strauss , Hironao Miyatake , Masato Shirasaki , Takashi Hamana , Masamune Oguri , Wentao Luo , Atsushi J. Nishizawa , Ryuichi Takahashi , Andrina Nicola , Ken Osato , Arun Kannawadi , Tomomi Sunayama , Robert Armstrong , James Bosch , Yutaka Komiyama , Robert H. Lupton , Nate B. Lust , Lauren A. MacArthur , Satoshi Miyazaki , Hitoshi Murayama , Takahiro Nishimichi , Yuki Okura , Paul A. Price , Philip J. Tait , Masayuki Tanaka , Shiang-Yu Wang

Redshift distributions of galaxies in the DES Science Verification shear catalogue and implications for weak lensing

We present photometric redshift estimates for galaxies used in the weak lensing analysis of the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification (DES SV) data. Four model- or machine learning-based photometric redshift methods -- ANNZ2, BPZ…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-07 C. Bonnett , M. A. Troxel , W. Hartley , A. Amara , B. Leistedt , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , S. Bridle , C. Bruderer , M. T. Busha , M. Carrasco Kind , M. J. Childress , F. J. Castander , C. Chang , M. Crocce , T. M. Davis , T. F. Eifler , J. Frieman , C. Gangkofner , E. Gaztanaga , K. Glazebrook , D. Gruen , T. Kacprzak , A. King , J. Kwan , O. Lahav , G. Lewis , C. Lidman , H. Lin , N. MacCrann , R. Miquel , C. R. O'Neill , A. Palmese , H. V. Peiris , A. Refregier , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , I. Sadeh , C. Sánchez , E. Sheldon , S. Uddin , R. H. Wechsler , J. Zuntz , T. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , R. Armstrong , M. Banerji , A. H. Bauer , A. Benoit-Lévy , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , D. Capozzi , A. Carnero Rosell , J. Carretero , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , A. Fausti Neto , E. Fernandez , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , D. W. Gerdes , R. A. Gruendl , K. Honscheid , B. Jain , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , A. G. Kim , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , T. S. Li , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , C. J. Miller , E. Neilsen , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , R. Ogando , A. A. Plazas , K. Reil , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , D. Thomas , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker

Can we use Weak Lensing to Measure Total Mass Profiles of Galaxies on 20 kiloparsec Scales?

Current constraints on dark matter density profiles from weak lensing are typically limited to radial scales greater than 50-100 kpc. In this paper, we explore the possibility of probing the very inner regions of galaxy/halo density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-15 Masato I. N. Kobayashi , Alexie Leauthaud , Surhud More , Nobuhiro Okabe , Clotilde Laigle , Jason Rhodes , Tsutomu T. Takeuchi

Precision photometric redshift calibration for galaxy-galaxy weak lensing

Accurate photometric redshifts are among the key requirements for precision weak lensing measurements. Both the large size of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the existence of large spectroscopic redshift samples that are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 R. Mandelbaum , U. Seljak , C. M. Hirata , S. Bardelli , M. Bolzonella , A. Bongiorno , M. Carollo , T. Contini , C. E. Cunha , B. Garilli , A. Iovino , P. Kampczyk , J. -P. Kneib , C. Knobel , D. C. Koo , F. Lamareille , O. Le Fevre , J. -F. Leborgne , S. J. Lilly , C. Maier , V. Mainieri , M. Mignoli , J. A. Newman , P. A. Oesch , E. Perez-Montero , E. Ricciardelli , M. Scodeggio , J. Silverman , L. Tasca

Radio Weak Lensing Shear Measurement in the Visibility Domain - II. Source Extraction

This paper extends the method introduced in Rivi et al. (2016b) to measure galaxy ellipticities in the visibility domain for radio weak lensing surveys. In that paper we focused on the development and testing of the method for the simple…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-16 Marzia Rivi , Lance Miller

KiDS-450 + 2dFLenS: Cosmological parameter constraints from weak gravitational lensing tomography and overlapping redshift-space galaxy clustering

We perform a combined analysis of cosmic shear tomography, galaxy-galaxy lensing tomography, and redshift-space multipole power spectra (monopole and quadrupole) using 450 deg$^2$ of imaging data by the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS) overlapping…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-09 Shahab Joudaki , Chris Blake , Andrew Johnson , Alexandra Amon , Marika Asgari , Ami Choi , Thomas Erben , Karl Glazebrook , Joachim Harnois-Deraps , Catherine Heymans , Hendrik Hildebrandt , Henk Hoekstra , Dominik Klaes , Konrad Kuijken , Chris Lidman , Alexander Mead , Lance Miller , David Parkinson , Gregory B. Poole , Peter Schneider , Massimo Viola , Christian Wolf

A Novel Framework for Modeling Weakly Lensing Shear Using Kinematics and Imaging at Moderate Redshift

Kinematic weak lensing describes the distortion of a galaxy's projected velocity field due to lensing shear, an effect recently reported for the first time by Gurri et al. based on a sample of 18 galaxies at $z \sim 0.1$. In this paper, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Brian DiGiorgio , Kevin Bundy , Kyle B. Westfall , Alexie Leauthaud , David Stark

KiDS-Legacy calibration: unifying shear and redshift calibration with the SKiLLS multi-band image simulations

We present SKiLLS, a suite of multi-band image simulations for the weak lensing analysis of the complete Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS), dubbed KiDS-Legacy analysis. The resulting catalogues enable joint shear and redshift calibration, enhancing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Shun-Sheng Li , Konrad Kuijken , Henk Hoekstra , Lance Miller , Catherine Heymans , Hendrik Hildebrandt , Jan Luca van den Busch , Angus H. Wright , Mijin Yoon , Maciej Bilicki , Matías Bravo , Claudia del P. Lagos

A Unified Photometric Redshift Calibration for Weak Lensing Surveys using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

The effective redshift distribution $n(z)$ of galaxies is a critical component in the study of weak gravitational lensing. Here, we introduce a new method for determining $n(z)$ for weak lensing surveys based on high-quality redshifts and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-30 Johannes U. Lange , Diana Blanco , Alexie Leauthaud , Angus Wright , Abigail Fisher , Joshua Ratajczak , Jessica Nicole Aguilar , Steven Ahlen , Stephen Bailey , Davide Bianchi , Chris Blake , David Brooks , Todd Claybaugh , Andrei Cuceu , Kyle Dawson , Axel de la Macorra , Joseph DeRose , Arjun Dey , Peter Doel , Ni Putu Audita Placida Emas , Simone Ferraro , Andreu Font-Ribera , Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Cristhian Garcia-Quintero , Enrique Gaztañaga , Satya Gontcho A Gontcho , Gaston Gutierrez , Sven Heydenreich , Hendrik Hildebrandt , Mustapha Ishak , Jorge Jimenez , Shahab Joudaki , Robert Kehoe , David Kirkby , Theodore Kisner , Anthony Kremin , Ofer Lahav , Claire Lamman , Martin Landriau , Laurent Le Guillou , Michael Levi , Leonel Medina Varela , Aaron Meisner , Ramon Miquel , John Moustakas , Seshadri Nadathur , Jeffrey A. Newman , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Anna Porredon , Francisco Prada , Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols , Graziano Rossi , Rossana Ruggeri , Eusebio Sanchez , Christoph Saulder , David Schlegel , Michael Schubnell , David Sprayberry , Zechang Sun , Gregory Tarlé , Benjamin Alan Weaver , Sihan Yuan , Pauline Zarrouk , Hu Zou

Bayesian Galaxy Shape Measurement for Weak Lensing Surveys - III. Application to the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey

A likelihood-based method for measuring weak gravitational lensing shear in deep galaxy surveys is described and applied to the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS). CFHTLenS comprises 154 sq deg of multicolour…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-01 L. Miller , C. Heymans , T. D. Kitching , L. Van Waerbeke , T. Erben , H. Hildebrandt , H. Hoekstra , Y. Mellier , B. T. P. Rowe , J. Coupon , J. P. Dietrich , L. Fu , J. Harnois-Deraps , M. J. Hudson , M. Kilbinger , K. Kuijken , T. Schrabback , E. Semboloni , S. Vafaei , M. Velander

The SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey: Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Weak Gravitational Lensing by eRASS1 selected Galaxy Clusters

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

Cosmic Shear Analysis in 50 Uncorrelated VLT Fields. Implications for Omega_0, sigma_8

We observed with the camera FORS1 on the VLT (UT1, ANTU) 50 randomly selected fields and analyzed the cosmic shear inside circular apertures with diameter ranging from 0.5 to 5.0 arc-minutes. The images were obtained in optimal conditions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Maoli , L. Van Waerbeke , Y. Mellier , P. Schneider , B. Jain , F. Bernardeau , T. Erben , B. Fort

Strong detection of the CMB lensingxgalaxy weak lensingcross-correlation from ACT-DR4,PlanckLegacy and KiDS-1000

We measure the cross-correlation between galaxy weak lensing data from the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS-1000, DR4) and cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT, DR4) and the Planck Legacy survey.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 Naomi Clare Robertson , David Alonso , Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Omar Darwish , Arun Kannawad , Alexandra Amon , Marika Asgari , Maciej Bilicki , Erminia Calabrese , Steve K. Choi , Mark J. Devlin , Jo Dunkley , Andrej Dvornik , Thomas Erben , Simone Ferraro , Maria Cristina Fortuna , Benjamin Giblin , Dongwon Han , Catherine Heymans , Hendrik Hildebrandt , J. Colin Hill , Matt Hilton , Shuay-Pwu P. Ho , Henk Hoekstra , Johannes Hubmayr , Jack Hughes , Benjamin Joachimi , Shahab Joudaki , Kenda Knowles , Konrad Kuijken , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Kavilan Moodley , Lance Miller , Toshiya Namikawa , Federico Nati , Michael D. Niemack , Lyman A. Page , Bruce Partridge , Emmanuel Schaan , Alessandro Schillaci , Peter Schneider , Neelima Sehgal , Blake D. Sherwin , Cristóbal Sifón , Suzanne T. Staggs , Tilman Tröster , Alexander van Engelen , Edwin Valentijn , Edward J. Wollack , Angus H. Wright , Zhilei Xu

Towards cosmology with Void Lensing: how to find voids sensitive to weak-lensing and numerically interpret them

In this work, we present a study of the void lensing signal or the excess surface mass density (ESMD) around cosmic voids. First, we propose a new void-finder algorithm that is designed to capture the ESMD around voids. We compare our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-27 Renan Boschetti , Pauline Vielzeuf , Marie-Claude Cousinou , Stephanie Escoffier , Eric Jullo

Weak lensing survey of galaxy clusters in the CFHTLS Deep

AIMS: We present a weak lensing search of galaxy clusters in the 4 deg2 of the CFHT Legacy Survey Deep. This work aims at building a mass-selected sample of clusters. METHODS: We use the deep i' band images to perform weak lensing mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Raphael Gavazzi , Genevieve Soucail

KiDS-1000: cosmic shear with enhanced redshift calibration

We present a cosmic shear analysis with an improved redshift calibration for the fourth data release of the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-1000) using self-organising maps (SOMs). Compared to the previous analysis of the KiDS-1000 data, we expand…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 J. L. van den Busch , A. H. Wright , H. Hildebrandt , M. Bilicki , M. Asgari , S. Joudaki , C. Blake , C. Heymans , A. Kannawadi , H. Y. Shan , T. Tröster

Weak lensing by galaxy troughs in DES Science Verification data

We measure the weak lensing shear around galaxy troughs, i.e. the radial alignment of background galaxies relative to underdensities in projections of the foreground galaxy field over a wide range of redshift in Science Verification data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-10 D. Gruen , O. Friedrich , A. Amara , D. Bacon , C. Bonnett , W. Hartley , B. Jain , M. Jarvis , T. Kacprzak , E. Krause , A. Mana , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , S. Seitz , E. Sheldon , M. A. Troxel , V. Vikram , T. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , R. Armstrong , M. Banerji , A. H. Bauer , M. R. Becker , A. Benoit-Levy , G. M. Bernstein , R. A. Bernstein , E. Bertin , S. L. Bridle , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , D. Capozzi , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , T. F. Eifler , A. Fausti Neto , E. Fernandez , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , D. W. Gerdes , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , P. Martini , P. Melchior , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , B. Nord , R. Ogando , A. A. Plazas , K. Reil , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , D. Thomas , A. R. Walker , R. H. Wechsler , J. Weller , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz

Weak lensing mass estimates of galaxy groups and the line-of-sight contamination

Weak lensing is an important technique to determine the masses of galaxy groups. However, the distortion imprint on the shape of the background galaxies is affected by all the mass content along the line-of-sight. Using COSMOS shear mock…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 P. F. Spinelli , S. Seitz , M. Lerchster , F. Brimioulle , A. Finoguenov

The first-year shear catalog of the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam SSP Survey

We present and characterize the catalog of galaxy shape measurements that will be used for cosmological weak lensing measurements in the Wide layer of the first year of the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) survey. The catalog covers an area of 136.9…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 Rachel Mandelbaum , Hironao Miyatake , Takashi Hamana , Masamune Oguri , Melanie Simet , Robert Armstrong , James Bosch , Ryoma Murata , François Lanusse , Alexie Leauthaud , Jean Coupon , Surhud More , Masahiro Takada , Satoshi Miyazaki , Joshua S. Speagle , Masato Shirasaki , Cristóbal Sifón , Song Huang , Atsushi J. Nishizawa , Elinor Medezinski , Yuki Okura , Nobuhiro Okabe , Nicole Czakon , Ryuichi Takahashi , Will Coulton , Chiaki Hikage , Yutaka Komiyama , Robert H. Lupton , Michael A. Strauss , Masayuki Tanaka , Yousuke Utsumi