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Weak galaxy lensing surveys have consistently reported low values of the $S_8$ parameter compared to the $\textit{Planck}\ \Lambda\rm{CDM}$ cosmology. Amon & Efstathiou (2022) used KiDS-1000 cosmic shear measurements to propose that this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-18 Calvin Preston , Alexandra Amon , George Efstathiou

We computed the power spectrum of weak cosmic shear in models with non-Gaussian primordial density fluctuations. Cosmological initial conditions deviating from Gaussianity have recently attracted much attention in the literature, especially…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 C. Fedeli , L. Moscardini

We describe data reduction and analysis of fluctuations in the cosmic far-IR background (CFIB) in observations with the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS) instrument 160 micron detectors. We analyzed observations of an 8.5…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Grossan , G. F. Smoot

We present a quantitative analysis of the largest contiguous maps of projected mass density obtained from gravitational lensing shear. We use data from the 154 deg2 covered by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey. Our study is…

The power spectrum of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) depends on most of the key cosmological parameters. Accurate future measurements of this power spectrum might therefore allow us to determine h, Omega, Omega_b,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Max Tegmark

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

Fluctuations in the CMB have now been detected over a wide range of angular scales, and a consistent picture seems to be emerging. The data cannot currently constrain a large number of cosmological parameters, but it is clear that there is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Douglas Scott , Martin White

Through analytic techniques verified by numerical calculations, we establish general relations between the matter and cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectra and their dependence on cosmological parameters on small scales.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Wayne Hu , Naoshi Sugiyama

Fluctuations in the 21cm brightness from cosmic hydrogen at redshifts z > 6 were sourced by the primordial density perturbations from inflation as well as by the radiation from galaxies. We propose a method to separate these components…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rennan Barkana , Abraham Loeb

We combine the LOw-Frequency ARray (LOFAR) Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) second data release (DR2) catalogue with gravitational lensing maps from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) to place constraints on the bias evolution of LoTSS radio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-17 S. J. Nakoneczny , D. Alonso , M. Bilicki , D. J. Schwarz , C. L. Hale , A. Pollo , C. Heneka , P. Tiwari , J. Zheng , M. Brüggen , M. J. Jarvis , T. W. Shimwell

Cross-correlating the lensing signals of galaxies and comic microwave background (CMB) fluctuations is expected to provide valuable cosmological information. In particular it may help tighten constraints on parameters describing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-14 Philipp M. Merkel , Bjoern Malte Schaefer

We present a cosmic shear analysis of the 100 square degree weak lensing survey, combining data from the CFHTLS-Wide, RCS, VIRMOS-DESCART and GaBoDS surveys. Spanning ~100 square degrees, with a median source redshift z~0.78, this combined…

With the availability of galaxy distance indicators in weak lensing surveys, lensing tomography can be harnessed to constrain the three-dimensional (3D) matter power spectrum over a range of redshift and physical scale. By combining…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Patrick Simon

The statistical properties of a map of the primary fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) may be specified to high accuracy by a few thousand power spectra measurements, provided the fluctuations are gaussian, yet the number…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sujata Gupta , Alan F. Heavens

We have measured the correlation between the lensing signal induced by (dark) matter and number counts of galaxies on scales ranging from 0.15-3.0 h_{50}^{-1} Mpc (which correspond to aperture radii of 1-15 arcminutes). This provides a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Henk Hoekstra , Howard K. C. Yee , Michael D. Gladders

Significant uncertainties exist in the measured amplitude of the angular two-point correlation function of galaxies at magnitudes $I\approx26$ and fainter. Published results from HST and ground-based galaxy catalogs seem to differ by as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 J. U. Fynbo , W. Freudling , P. Moller

We use weak lensing data from the Hubble Space Telescope COSMOS survey to measure the second- and third-moments of the cosmic shear field, estimated from about 450,000 galaxies with average redshift <z> ~ 1.3. We measure two- and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Elisabetta Semboloni , Tim Schrabback , Ludovic van Waerbeke , Sanaz Vafaei , Jan Hartlap , Stefan Hilbert

The CMB anisotropy on arc second range is examined to test the power spectrum of perturbations in the small scale region and, in particular, to estimate the mass of dominant dark matter particles. It is shown that for the simplest…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Andrei G. Doroshkevich , Raffaella Schneider