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Inferring unknown conic sections on the basis of noisy data is a challenging problem with applications in computer vision. A major limitation of the currently available methods for conic sections is that estimation methods rely on the…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-03-05 Subharup Guha , Sujit K. Ghosh

In this work, we are trying to extent the existing photometric redshift regression models from modeling pure photometric data back to the spectra themselves. To that end, we developed a PCA that is capable of describing the input…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-21 S. D. Kügler , N. Gianniotis

Baryonic physics has a considerable impact on the distribution of matter in our Universe on scales probed by current and future cosmological surveys, acting as a key systematic in such analyses. We seek simple symbolic parametrisations for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 Lukas Kammerer , Deaglan J. Bartlett , Gabriel Kronberger , Harry Desmond , Pedro G. Ferreira

We forecast and optimize the cosmological power of various weak-lensing aperture mass ($M_{\rm ap}$) map statistics for future cosmic shear surveys, including peaks, voids, and the full distribution of pixels (1D $M_{\rm ap}$). These…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-10 Nicolas Martinet , Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Eric Jullo , Peter Schneider

Principal component analysis (PCA) is arguably the most widely used approach for large-dimensional factor analysis. While it is effective when the factors are sufficiently strong, it can be inconsistent when the factors are weak and/or the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-22 Zhongyuan Lyu , Ming Yuan

One of the most powerful techniques to study the dark sector of the Universe is weak gravitational lensing. In practice, to infer the reduced shear, weak lensing measures galaxy shapes, which are the consequence of both the intrinsic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Sami-Matias Niemi , Thomas Kitching , Mark Cropper

We estimate uncertainties of cosmological parameters for phenomenological interacting dark energy models using weak lensing convergence power spectrum and bispectrum. We focus on the bispectrum tomography and examine how well the weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-31 Rui An , Chang Feng , Bin Wang

We present the first analysis of cosmic shear measured in DES Y3 that employs the entire range of angular scales in the data. To achieve this, we build upon recent advances in the theoretical modelling of weak lensing provided by a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-18 Giovanni Aricò , Raul E. Angulo , Matteo Zennaro , Sergio Contreras , Angela Chen , Carlos Hernández-Monteagudo

Future large-scale galaxy surveys have the potential to become leading probes for cosmology provided the influence of baryons on the total mass distribution is understood well enough. As hydrodynamical simulations strongly depend on details…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-04 Aurel Schneider , Romain Teyssier

The weak lensing power spectrum is a powerful tool to probe cosmological parameters. Additionally, lensing peak counts contain cosmological information beyond the power spectrum. Both of these statistics can be affected by the preferential…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-07 Jia Liu , Zoltán Haiman , Lam Hui , Jan M. Kratochvil , Morgan May

Weak lensing surveys provide a powerful probe of dark energy through the measurement of the mass distribution of the local Universe. A number of ground-based and space-based surveys are being planned for this purpose. Here, we study the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-22 Adam Amara , Alexandre Refregier

(Abridged) The effect of baryonic feedback on the dark matter mass distribution is generally considered to be a nuisance to weak gravitational lensing. Measurements of cosmological parameters are affected as feedback alters the cosmic shear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Ludovic van Waerbeke , Massimo Viola , Catherine Heymans

We present measurements of the weak gravitational lensing shear power spectrum based on $450$ sq. deg. of imaging data from the Kilo Degree Survey. We employ a quadratic estimator in two and three redshift bins and extract band powers of…

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a method for estimating a subspace given noisy samples. It is useful in a variety of problems ranging from dimensionality reduction to anomaly detection and the visualization of high dimensional data.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-14 David Hong , Laura Balzano , Jeffrey A. Fessler

Cosmological weak lensing measurements rely on a precise measurement of the shear two-point correlation function (2PCF) along with a deep understanding of systematics that affect it. In this work, we demonstrate a general framework for…

The forthcoming generation of galaxy redshift surveys will sample the large-scale structure of the Universe over unprecedented volumes with high-density tracers. This advancement will make robust measurements of three-point clustering…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-29 Andrea Oddo , Emiliano Sefusatti , Cristiano Porciani , Pierluigi Monaco , Ariel G. Sánchez

We show that it is possible to build effective matter density power spectra in tomographic cosmic shear observations that exhibit the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) features once a nulling transformation has been applied to the data.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 Francis Bernardeau , Takahiro Nishimichi , Atsushi Taruya

Measurements of gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) hold the promise of yielding unique insights into cosmology at high redshift. Uncertainties due to baryonic effects associated with galaxy formation and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-13 Eegene Chung , Simon Foreman , Alexander van Engelen

Analyses of cosmic shear typically condense weak lensing information over a range of scales to a single cosmological parameter, $S_8$. This paper presents a method to extract more information from Stage-IV cosmic shear measurements by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-30 Calvin Preston , Alexandra Amon , George Efstathiou