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We introduce new Fourier band-power estimators for cosmic shear data analysis and E/B-mode separation. We consider both the case where one performs E/B-mode separation and the case where one does not. The resulting estimators have several…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Matthew R. Becker , Eduardo Rozo

We apply the Karhunen-Lo\'eve methods to cosmic microwave background (CMB) data sets, and show that we can recover the input cosmology and obtain the marginalized likelihoods in $\Lambda$ cold dark matter cosmologies in under a minute, much…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 Alan Zablocki , Scott Dodelson

We present estimates of cosmological parameters from the application of the Karhunen-Loeve transform to the analysis of the 3D power spectrum of density fluctuations using Sloan Digital Sky Survey galaxy redshifts. We use Omega_m*h and f_b…

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

A cosmic shear survey, spanning a significant proportion of the sky, should greatly improve constraints on a number of cosmological parameters. It also provides a unique opportunity to examine the matter power spectrum directly. However,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fergus Simpson

In the past few years, several independent collaborations have presented cosmological constraints from tomographic cosmic shear analyses. These analyses differ in many aspects: the datasets, the shear and photometric redshift estimation…

I review the current status of combing weak gravitational lensing with depth information from redshifts as a direct probe of dark matter and dark energy in the Universe. In particular I highlight: (1) The first maximum likelihood…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andy Taylor

Commonly used methods to decompose E- and B-modes in cosmic shear, namely the aperture mass dispersion and the E/B-mode shear correlation function, suffer from incomplete knowledge of the two-point correlation function (2PCF) on very small…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Tim Eifler , Peter Schneider , Elisabeth Krause

Weak gravitational lensing is becoming a mature technique for constraining cosmological parameters, and future surveys will be able to constrain the dark energy equation of state $w$. When analyzing galaxy surveys, redshift information has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-07 Andrea Petri , Morgan May , Zoltán Haiman

Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography (USWE) with conventional B-mode imaging demonstrates better performance in lesion segmentation and classification problems. In this article, we propose SHEAR-net, an end-to-end deep neural network, to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-14 Tamim Ahmed , Md. Kamrul Hasan

We study degeneracies between cosmological parameters and measurement errors from cosmic shear surveys using a principal component analysis of the Fisher matrix. We simulate realistic survey topologies with non-uniform sky coverage, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dipak Munshi , Martin Kilbinger

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…

Cosmic shear is one of the primary probes to test gravity with current and future surveys. There are two main techniques to analyse a cosmic shear survey; a tomographic method, where correlations between the lensing signal in different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 A. Spurio Mancini , R. Reischke , V. Pettorino , B. M. Schäfer , M. Zumalacárregui

Precision measurements of the galaxy power spectrum P(k) require a data analysis pipeline that is both fast enough to be computationally feasible and accurate enough to take full advantage of high-quality data. We present a rigorous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 Max Tegmark , Andrew Hamilton , Michael Strauss , Michael Vogeley , Alexander Szalay

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

Aims. We present a cosmic shear analysis and data validation of 15 square degree high-quality R-band data of the Garching-Bonn Deep Survey obtained with the Wide Field Imager of the MPG/ESO 2.2m telescope. Methods. We measure the two-point…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Hetterscheidt , P. Simon , M. Schirmer , H. Hildebrandt , T. Schrabback , T. Erben , P. Schneider

Memory and network bandwidth are decisive bottlenecks when handling high-resolution multidimensional data sets in visualization applications, and they increasingly demand suitable data compression strategies. We introduce a novel lossy…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Rafael Ballester-Ripoll , Peter Lindstrom , Renato Pajarola

We present a cosmological analysis of the third-order aperture mass statistic using Dark Energy Survey Year 3 (DES Y3) data. We perform a complete tomographic measurement of the three-point correlation function of the Y3 weak lensing shape…

Cosmic shear is considered one of the most powerful methods for studying the properties of Dark Energy in the Universe. As a standard method, the two-point correlation functions $xi_\pm(theta)$ of the cosmic shear field are used as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Peter Schneider , Tim Eifler , Elisabeth Krause