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Forthcoming large imaging surveys such as Euclid and the Vera Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time are expected to find more than $10^5$ strong gravitational lens systems, including many rare and exotic populations such as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 Joshua Wilde , Stephen Serjeant , Jane M. Bromley , Hugh Dickinson , Leon V. E. Koopmans , R. Benton Metcalf

As we enter the era of large-scale imaging surveys with the up-coming telescopes such as LSST and SKA, it is envisaged that the number of known strong gravitational lensing systems will increase dramatically. However, these events are still…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Daniel Magro , Kristian Zarb Adami , Andrea DeMarco , Simone Riggi , Eva Sciacca

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Chieh-An Lin

Weak gravitational lensing provides a unique method to map directly the dark matter in the Universe. The majority of lensing analyses uses the two-point statistics of the cosmic shear field to constrain the cosmological model yielding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 S. Pires , J. -L. Starck , A. Amara , A. Refregier , R. Teyssier

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are the state-of-the-art technique for identifying strong gravitational lenses. Although they are highly successful in recovering genuine lens systems with a high true-positive rate, the unbalanced…

This paper reviews statistical methods recently developed to reconstruct and analyze dark matter mass maps from weak lensing observations. The field of weak lensing is motivated by the observations made in the last decades showing that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 S. Pires , J. -L. Starck , A. Refregier

Weak gravitational lensing of distant galaxies by foreground structures has proven to be a powerful tool to study the mass distribution in the universe. Nowadays, attention has shifted from clusters of galaxies to the statistical properties…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Henk Hoekstra , Howard Yee , Mike Gladders

Weak gravitational lensing is one of the key probes of the cosmological model, dark energy, and dark matter, providing insight into both the cosmic expansion history and large scale structure growth history. Taking into account a broad…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-12 Sudeep Das , Roland de Putter , Eric V. Linder , Reiko Nakajima

Weak gravitational lensing is a unique probe of the dark side of the universe: it provides a direct way to map the distribution of dark matter around galaxies, clusters of galaxies and on cosmological scales. Furthermore, the measurement of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-07 Henk Hoekstra , Bhuvnesh Jain

Optical weak lensing surveys have become a powerful tool for precision cosmology, but remain subject to systematic effects that can severely bias cosmological parameter estimates if not carefully removed. We discuss the possibility of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-22 Philip Bull , Ian Harrison , Eric Huff

Weak gravitational lensing is the slight distortion of galaxy shapes caused primarily by the gravitational effects of dark matter in the universe. In our work, we seek to invert the weak lensing signal from 2D telescope images to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-22 Brandon Zhao , Aviad Levis , Liam Connor , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Katherine L. Bouman

Future large-scale surveys with high resolution imaging will provide us with a few $10^5$ new strong galaxy-scale lenses. These strong lensing systems however will be contained in large data amounts which are beyond the capacity of human…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 C. Schaefer , M. Geiger , T. Kuntzer , J-P. Kneib

Strong gravitational lensing is a promising way of uncovering the nature of dark matter, by finding perturbations to images that cannot be well accounted for by modeling the lens galaxy without additional structure, be it subhalos (smaller…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 Ana Diaz Rivero , Cora Dvorkin

This article reviews recent advances in the application of machine learning to weak-lensing cosmology. Weak gravitational lensing provides a unique and powerful probe of the total matter distribution in the Universe, independent of its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-14 Masato Shirasaki

Weak gravitational lensing is one of the most important probes of the nature of dark matter and dark energy. In order to extract cosmological information from next-generation weak lensing surveys (e.g., Euclid, Roman, LSST, and CSST) as…

We present our results from training and evaluating a convolutional neural network (CNN) to predict galaxy shapes from wide-field survey images of the first data release of the Dark Energy Survey (DES DR1). We use conventional shape…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Dezső Ribli , László Dobos , István Csabai

Most of the matter in the universe is not luminous and can be observed directly only through its gravitational effect. An emerging technique called weak gravitational lensing uses background galaxies to reveal the foreground dark matter…

We investigate the potential of weak gravitational lensing maps to differentiate between distinct cosmological models, considering cosmic variance due to a limited map extension and the presence of noise. We introduce a measure of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Antonio Guimarães

Weak gravitational lensing provides a unique method to directly map the dark matter in the universe and measure cosmological parameters. Current weak lensing surveys are limited by the atmospheric seeing from the ground and by the small…

Cosmic shear is the distortion of images of distant galaxies due to weak gravitational lensing by the large-scale structure in the Universe. Such images are coherently deformed by the tidal field of matter inhomogeneities along the line of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-22 Martin Kilbinger