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We describe the first spectroscopic tomographic (spectrotomographic) weak lensing measurement for a galaxy cluster based only on background galaxies with spectroscopically determined redshifts. We use the massive cluster A2029 to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-21 Ian Dell'Antonio , Jubee Sohn , Margaret J. Geller , Jacqueline McCleary , Anja von der Linden

We present the VST ATLAS Quasar Survey, consisting of $\sim1,229,000$ quasar (QSO) candidates with $16<g<22.5$ over $\sim4700$ deg$^2$. The catalogue is based on VST ATLAS$+$NEOWISE imaging surveys and aims to reach a QSO sky density of…

We present cosmological constraints from 2D weak gravitational lensing by the large-scale structure in the Canada-France Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS) which spans 154 square degrees in five optical bands. Using accurate…

We use 26 million galaxies from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 1 shape catalogs over 1321 deg$^2$ of the sky to produce the most significant measurement of cosmic shear in a galaxy survey to date. We constrain cosmological parameters in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 M. A. Troxel , N. MacCrann , J. Zuntz , T. F. Eifler , E. Krause , S. Dodelson , D. Gruen , J. Blazek , O. Friedrich , S. Samuroff , J. Prat , L. F. Secco , C. Davis , A. Ferté , J. DeRose , A. Alarcon , A. Amara , E. Baxter , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , S. L. Bridle , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , A. Choi , J. De Vicente , A. Drlica-Wagner , J. Elvin-Poole , J. Frieman , M. Gatti , W. G. Hartley , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , E. M. Huff , D. Huterer , B. Jain , M. Jarvis , T. Kacprzak , D. Kirk , N. Kokron , C. Krawiec , O. Lahav , A. R. Liddle , J. Peacock , M. M. Rau , A. Refregier , R. P. Rollins , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , C. Sánchez , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , A. Stebbins , T. N. Varga , P. Vielzeuf , M. Wang , R. H. Wechsler , B. Yanny , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , J. Annis , K. Bechtol , A. Benoit-Lévy , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , 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 , E. Fernandez , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , D. A. Goldstein , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , S. Kent , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , N. Kuropatkin , T. S. Li , M. Lima , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , E. Neilsen , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , D. Petravick , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , M. Smith , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , J. Weller , Y. Zhang

We perform a galaxy-galaxy lensing study by correlating the shapes of $\sim$2.7 $\times$ 10$^5$ galaxies selected from the VLA FIRST radio survey with the positions of $\sim$38.5 million SDSS galaxies, $\sim$132000 BCGs and $\sim$78000 SDSS…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-04 Constantinos Demetroullas , Michael L. Brown

Evolution in the mass function of galaxy clusters sensitively traces both the expansion history of the Universe and cosmological structure formation. Robust cluster mass determinations are a key ingredient for a reliable measurement of this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Holger Israel , Thomas Erben , Thomas H. Reiprich , Alexey Vikhlinin , Craig L. Sarazin , Peter Schneider

Upcoming surveys such as \LSST{} and \Euclid{} will significantly improve the power of weak lensing as a cosmological probe. To maximise the information that can be extracted from these surveys, it is important to explore novel statistics…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 Christopher T. Davies , Marius Cautun , Benjamin Giblin , Baojiu Li , Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Yan-Chuan Cai

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey will measure spectroscopic redshifts for millions of galaxies across roughly $14,000 \, \mathrm{deg}^2$ of the sky. Cross-correlating targets in the DESI survey with complementary…

We present a finely-binned tomographic weak lensing analysis of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey, CFHTLenS, mitigating contamination to the signal from the presence of intrinsic galaxy alignments via the simultaneous fit of…

In this paper we present results of applying the shear-ratio method to the RCSLenS data. The method takes the ratio of the mean of the weak lensing tangential shear signal about galaxy clusters, averaged over all clusters of the same…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-14 T. D. Kitching , M. Viola , H. Hildebrandt , A. Choi , T. Erben , D. G. Gilbank , C. Heymans , L. Miller , R. Nakajima , E. van Uitert

We report the weak lensing discovery, spectroscopic confirmation, and weak lensing tomography of a massive cluster of galaxies at $z=0.68$, demonstrating that shear selection of clusters works at redshifts high enough to be cosmologically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Wittman , V. E. Margoniner , J. A. Tyson , J. G. Cohen , I. P. Dell'Antonio , A. C. Becker

We present the Metadetection weak lensing galaxy shape catalogue from the six-year Dark Energy Survey (DES Y6) imaging data. This dataset is the final release from DES, spanning 4422 deg$^2$ of the southern sky. We describe how the…

Studying the statistical properties of the large-scale structure in the Universe with weak gravitational lensing is a prime goal of several current and forthcoming galaxy surveys. The power that weak lensing has to constrain cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 Pierre Burger , Oliver Friedrich , Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Peter Schneider

We study how 21 cm intensity mapping can be used to measure gravitational lensing over a wide range of redshift. This can extend weak lensing measurements to higher redshifts than are accessible with conventional galaxy surveys. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-11 A. Pourtsidou , R. Benton Metcalf

The Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS) is a 100 deg^2 galaxy cluster survey designed to provide a large sample of optically selected clusters of galaxies with redshifts 0.1<z<1.4. The survey data are also useful for a variety of lensing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Henk Hoekstra , H. K. C. Yee , Michael D. Gladders

Intrinsic alignments of galaxies can mimic to an extent the effects of shear caused by weak gravitational lensing. Previous studies have shown that for shallow surveys with median redshifts z_m = 0.1, the intrinsic alignment dominates the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Catherine Heymans , Alan Heavens

Weak gravitational lensing allows one to reconstruct the spatial distribution of the projected mass density across the sky. These "mass maps" provide a powerful tool for studying cosmology as they probe both luminous and dark matter. In…

Given a foreground galaxy-density field or shear field, its cross-correlation with the shear field from a background population of source galaxies scales with the source redshift in a way that is specific to lensing. Such a source-scaling…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jun Zhang , Lam Hui , Albert Stebbins

We present parameter estimation forecasts for present and future 3D cosmic shear surveys. We demonstrate that, in conjunction with results from cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments, the properties of dark energy can be estimated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. F. Heavens , T. D. Kitching , A. N. Taylor

We present the first "clipped" cosmic shear measurement using data from the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-450). "Clipping" transformations suppress the signal from the highest density, non-linear regions of cosmological fields. We demonstrate…