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Weighing the Giants - III. Methods and Measurements of Accurate Galaxy Cluster Weak-Lensing Masses

We report weak-lensing masses for 51 of the most X-ray luminous galaxy clusters known. This cluster sample, introduced earlier in this series of papers, spans redshifts 0.15 < z_cl < 0.7, and is well suited to calibrate mass proxies for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-21 Douglas E. Applegate , Anja von der Linden , Patrick L. Kelly , Mark T. Allen , Steven W. Allen , Patricia R. Burchat , David L. Burke , Harald Ebeling , Adam Mantz , R. Glenn Morris

Correcting cosmological parameter biases for all redshift surveys induced by estimating and reweighting redshift distributions

Photometric redshift uncertainties are a major source of systematic error for ongoing and future photometric surveys. We study different sources of redshift error caused by choosing a suboptimal redshift histogram bin width and propose…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-02 Markus Michael Rau , Ben Hoyle , Kerstin Paech , Stella Seitz

Cosmology from large scale galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing with Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data

We present cosmological constraints from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) using a combined analysis of angular clustering of red galaxies and their cross-correlation with weak gravitational lensing of background galaxies. We use a 139 square…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 Juliana Kwan , Carles Sanchez , Joseph Clampitt , Jonathan Blazek , Martin Crocce , Bhuvnesh Jain , Joe Zuntz , Adam Amara , Matthew Becker , Gary Bernstein , Christopher Bonnett , Joseph DeRose , Scott Dodelson , Tim Eifler , Enrique Gaztanaga , Tommaso Giannantonio , Daniel Gruen , Will Hartley , Tomasz Kacprzak , Donnacha Kirk , Elisabeth Krause , Niall MacCrann , Ramon Miquel , Youngsoo Park , Ashley Ross , Eduardo Rozo , Eli Rykoff , Erin Sheldon , Michael A. Troxel , Risa Wechsler , Tim Abbott , Filipe Abdalla , Sahar Allam , Aurélien Benoit-Lévy , David Brooks , David Burke , Aurelio Carnero Rosell , Matias Carrasco Kind , Carlos Cunha , Chris D'Andrea , Luiz da Costa , Shantanu Desai , H. Thomas Diehl , Jörg Dietrich , Peter Doel , August Evrard , Enrique Fernandez , David Finley , Brenna Flaugher , Pablo Fosalba , Josh Frieman , David Gerdes , Robert Gruendl , Gaston Gutierrez , Klaus Honscheid , David James , Mike Jarvis , Kyler Kuehn , Ofer Lahav , Marcos Lima , Marcio Maia , Jennifer Marshall , Paul Martini , Peter Melchior , Joe Mohr , Robert Nichol , Brian Nord , Andres Plazas , Kevin Reil , Kathy Romer , Aaron Roodman , Eusebio Sanchez , Vic Scarpine , Ignacio Sevilla , R. Chris Smith , Marcelle Soares-Santos , Flavia Sobreira , Eric Suchyta , Molly Swanson , Gregory Tarle , Daniel Thomas , Vinu Vikram , Alistair Walker

Reducing Model Error Using Optimised Galaxy Selection: Weak Lensing Cluster Mass Estimation

Galaxy clusters are one of the most powerful probes to study extensions of General Relativity and the Standard Cosmological Model. Upcoming surveys like the Vera Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time are expected to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-19 Markus Michael Rau , Florian Kéruzoré , Nesar Ramachandra , Lindsey Bleem

Modeling Redshift-Space Clustering with Abundance Matching

We explore the degrees of freedom required to jointly fit projected and redshift-space clustering of galaxies selected in three bins of stellar mass from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Main Galaxy Sample (SDSS MGS) using a subhalo abundance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Joseph DeRose , Matthew R. Becker , Risa H. Wechsler

A data compression and optimal galaxy weights scheme for Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument and weak lensing datasets

Combining different observational probes, such as galaxy clustering and weak lensing, is a promising technique for unveiling the physics of the Universe with upcoming dark energy experiments. The galaxy redshift sample from the Dark Energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Rossana Ruggeri , Chris Blake , Joseph DeRose , C. Garcia-Quintero , B. Hadzhiyska , M. Ishak , N. Jeffrey , S. Joudaki , Alex Krolewski , J. U. Lange , A. Leauthaud , A. Porredon , G. Rossi , C. Saulder , E. Xhakaj , 1 D. Brooks , G. Dhungana , A. de la Macorra , P. Doel , S. Gontcho A Gontcho , A. Kremin , M. Landriau , R. Miquel , 0 C. Poppett , F. Prada , Gregory Tarlé

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Redshift Calibration of the MagLim Lens Sample from the combination of SOMPZ and clustering and its impact on Cosmology

We present an alternative calibration of the MagLim lens sample redshift distributions from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) first three years of data (Y3). The new calibration is based on a combination of a Self-Organising Maps based scheme…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-20 G. Giannini , A. Alarcon , M. Gatti , A. Porredon , M. Crocce , G. M. Bernstein , R. Cawthon , C. Sánchez , C. Doux , J. Elvin-Poole , M. Raveri , J. Myles , A. Amon , S. Allam , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , E. Baxter , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , J. Blazek , H. Camacho , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , A. Choi , J. Cordero , J. De Vicente , J. DeRose , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , S. Everett , X. Fang , A. Farahi , P. Fosalba , O. Friedrich , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , E. M. Huff , M. Jarvis , E. Krause , N. Kuropatkin , P. Lemos , N. MacCrann , J. McCullough , J. Muir , S. Pandey , J. Prat , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , S. Samuroff , L. F. Secco , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , M. A. Troxel , D. L. Tucker , N. Weaverdyck , B. Yanny , B. Yin , Y. Zhang , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , S. Desai , P. Doel , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , D. Friedel , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , D. W. Gerdes , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , S. Kent , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , C. Lidman , M. Lima , P. Melchior , J. Mena-Fernández , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , R. L. C. Ogando , M. Paterno , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Roodman , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Smith , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , M. Vincenzi

Optimising the shape of photometric redshift distributions with clustering cross-correlations

We present an optimisation method for the assignment of photometric galaxies into a chosen set of redshift bins. This is achieved by combining simulated annealing, an optimisation algorithm inspired by solid-state physics, with an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Benjamin Stölzner , Benjamin Joachimi , Andreas Korn , the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

Redshift distributions of galaxies in the DES Science Verification shear catalogue and implications for weak lensing

We present photometric redshift estimates for galaxies used in the weak lensing analysis of the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification (DES SV) data. Four model- or machine learning-based photometric redshift methods -- ANNZ2, BPZ…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-07 C. Bonnett , M. A. Troxel , W. Hartley , A. Amara , B. Leistedt , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , S. Bridle , C. Bruderer , M. T. Busha , M. Carrasco Kind , M. J. Childress , F. J. Castander , C. Chang , M. Crocce , T. M. Davis , T. F. Eifler , J. Frieman , C. Gangkofner , E. Gaztanaga , K. Glazebrook , D. Gruen , T. Kacprzak , A. King , J. Kwan , O. Lahav , G. Lewis , C. Lidman , H. Lin , N. MacCrann , R. Miquel , C. R. O'Neill , A. Palmese , H. V. Peiris , A. Refregier , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , I. Sadeh , C. Sánchez , E. Sheldon , S. Uddin , R. H. Wechsler , J. Zuntz , T. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , R. Armstrong , M. Banerji , A. H. Bauer , A. Benoit-Lévy , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , D. Capozzi , A. Carnero Rosell , J. Carretero , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , A. Fausti Neto , E. Fernandez , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , D. W. Gerdes , R. A. Gruendl , K. Honscheid , B. Jain , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , A. G. Kim , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , T. S. Li , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , C. J. Miller , E. Neilsen , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , R. Ogando , A. A. Plazas , K. Reil , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , D. Thomas , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker

Galaxy bias from galaxy-galaxy lensing in the DES Science Verification Data

We present a measurement of galaxy-galaxy lensing around a magnitude-limited ($i_{AB} < 22.5$) sample of galaxies from the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification (DES-SV) data. We split these lenses into three photometric-redshift bins…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-27 J. Prat , C. Sánchez , R. Miquel , J. Kwan , J. Blazek , C. Bonnett , A. Amara , S. L. Bridle , J. Clampitt , M. Crocce , P. Fosalba , E. Gaztanaga , T. Giannantonio , W. G. Hartley , M. Jarvis , N. MacCrann , W. J. Percival , A. J. Ross , E. Sheldon , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , J. Annis , A. Benoit-Lévy , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , L. N. da Costa , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , T. F. Eifler , A. E. Evrard , A. Fausti Neto , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , D. W. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , M. Lima , J. L. Marshall , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , B. Nord , A. A. Plazas , K. Reil , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , A. R. Walker

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Magnification modeling and impact on cosmological constraints from galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing

We study the effect of magnification in the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 analysis of galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing, using two different lens samples: a sample of Luminous red galaxies, redMaGiC, and a sample with a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 J. Elvin-Poole , N. MacCrann , S. Everett , J. Prat , E. S. Rykoff , J. De Vicente , B. Yanny , K. Herner , A. Ferté , E. Di Valentino , A. Choi , D. L. Burke , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , A. Alarcon , O. Alves , A. Amon , F. Andrade-Oliveira , E. Baxter , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , J. Blazek , H. Camacho , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , R. Chen , J. Cordero , M. Crocce , C. Davis , J. DeRose , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , T. F. Eifler , F. Elsner , X. Fang , P. Fosalba , O. Friedrich , M. Gatti , G. Giannini , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , H. Huang , E. M. Huff , D. Huterer , E. Krause , N. Kuropatkin , P. -F. Leget , P. Lemos , A. R. Liddle , J. McCullough , J. Muir , J. Myles , A. Navarro-Alsina , S. Pandey , Y. Park , A. Porredon , M. Raveri , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , R. P. Rollins , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , C. Sánchez , J. Sanchez , L. F. Secco , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , M. A. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , T. N. Varga , N. Weaverdyck , R. H. Wechsler , B. Yin , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz , M. Aguena , S. Avila , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , J. García-Bellido , K. Honscheid , M. Jarvis , T. S. Li , J. Mena-Fernández , C. To , R. D. Wilkinson

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Calibration of Lens Sample Redshift Distributions using Clustering Redshifts with BOSS/eBOSS

We present clustering redshift measurements for Dark Energy Survey (DES) lens sample galaxies to be used in weak gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering studies. To perform this measurement, we cross-correlate with spectroscopic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-09 R. Cawthon , J. Elvin-Poole , A. Porredon , M. Crocce , G. Giannini , M. Gatti , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , A. Carnero Rosell , J. DeRose , S. Lee , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , A. Amon , K. Bechtol , J. De Vicente , D. Gruen , R. Morgan , E. Sanchez , J. Sanchez , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , S. Avila , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , A. Choi , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , K. Dawson , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , K. Eckert , S. Everett , I. Ferrero , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , D. J. James , A. G. Kim , J. -P. Kneib , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , M. Lima , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , J. Muir , J. Myles , A. Palmese , S. Pandey , F. Paz-Chinchón , W. J. Percival , A. A. Plazas , A. Roodman , G. Rossi , V. Scarpine , S. Serrano , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , C. To , M. A. Troxel , R. D. Wilkinson , the DES Collaboration

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Redshift Calibration of the Weak Lensing Source Galaxies

Determining the distribution of redshifts for galaxies in wide-field photometric surveys is essential for robust cosmological studies of weak gravitational lensing. We present the methodology, calibrated redshift distributions, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-28 B. Yin , A. Amon , A. Campos , M. A. Troxel , W. d'Assignies , G. M. Bernstein , G. Camacho-Ciurana , S. Mau , M. R. Becker , G. Giannini , A. Alarcón , D. Gruen , J. McCullough , M. Yamamoto , D. Anbajagane , S. Dodelson , C. Sánchez , J. Myles , J. Prat , C. Chang , M. Crocce , K. Bechtol , A. Ferté , M. Gatti , N. MacCrann , R. Marco , A. Porredón , D. Sánchez Cid , T. Schutt , M. Tabbut , C. To , T. Abbott , M. Aguena , O. Alves , D. Bacon , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , R. Camilleri , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. Conselice , L. da Costa , M. da Silva Pereira , T. Davis , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. Diehl , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , T. Eifler , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , D. Francis de Souza , J. Frieman , J. Garcia-Bellido , E. Gaztañaga , P. Giles , G. Gutierrez , S. Hinton , D. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , B. Jain , D. James , K. Kuehn , S. Lee , H. Lin , J. Marshall , J. Mena-Fernández , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. Muir , R. Ogando , A. Palmese , D. Petravick , A. Plazas Malagón , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , S. Samuroff , E. Sánchez , I. Sevilla , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , M. Smith , E. Suchyta , M. Swanson , G. Tarlé , D. Thomas , V. Vikram , A. Walker , P. Wiseman

Constraints on the Energy Content of the Universe from a Combination of Galaxy Cluster Observables

We demonstrate that constraints on cosmological parameters from the distribution of clusters as a function of redshift (dN/dz) are complementary to accurate angular diameter distance (D_A) measurements to clusters, and their combination…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. M. Molnar , Z. Haiman , M. Birkinshaw , R. F. Mushotzky

6x2pt: Forecasting gains from joint weak lensing and galaxy clustering analyses with spectroscopic-photometric galaxy cross-correlations

We explore the enhanced self-calibration of photometric galaxy redshift distributions, $n(z)$, through the combination of up to six two-point functions. Our $\rm 3\times2pt$ configuration is comprised of photometric shear, spectroscopic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-02 Harry Johnston , Nora Elisa Chisari , Shahab Joudaki , Robert Reischke , Benjamin Stölzner , Arthur Loureiro , Constance Mahony , Sandra Unruh , Angus H. Wright , Marika Asgari , Maciej Bilicki , Pierre Burger , Andrej Dvornik , Christos Georgiou , Benjamin Giblin , Catherine Heymans , Hendrik Hildebrandt , Benjamin Joachimi , Konrad Kuijken , Shun-Sheng Li , Laila Linke , Lucas Porth , HuanYuan Shan , Tilman Tröster , Jan Luca van den Busch , Maximilian von Wietersheim-Kramsta , Ziang Yan , Yun-Hao Zhang

Cosmological constraints from galaxy clustering

In this manuscript I review the mathematics and physics that underpins recent work using the clustering of galaxies to derive cosmological model constraints. I start by describing the basic concepts, and gradually move on to some of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-28 Will J. Percival

Cosmology with imaging galaxy surveys: the impact of evolving galaxy bias and magnification

The joint analysis of galaxy clustering and galaxy-shear cross-correlations (galaxy-galaxy lensing) in imaging surveys constitutes one of the main avenues to obtain cosmological information. Analyses from Stage III surveys have assumed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-03 Shivam Pandey , Carles Sánchez , Bhuvnesh Jain , The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

Cosmological constraints from abundance, weak-lensing and clustering of galaxy clusters: application to the SDSS

The clustering of galaxy clusters is a powerful cosmological tool, which can help to break degeneracies between parameters when combined with other cosmological observables. We aim to demonstrate its potential in constraining cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-16 Alessandra Fumagalli , Matteo Costanzi , Alexandro Saro , Tiago Castro , Stefano Borgani

Improved photometric redshifts with colour-constrained galaxy templates for future wide-area surveys

Cosmology and galaxy evolution studies with LSST, \Euclid, and {\it Roman}, will require accurate redshifts for the detected galaxies. In this study, we present improved photometric redshift estimates for galaxies using a template library…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-06 Bomee Lee , Ranga-Ram Chary

Wide Field Imaging of the Hubble Deep Field South Region II: The Evolution of Galaxy Clustering at z<1

We present the galaxy-galaxy angular correlations as a function of photometric redshift in a deep-wide galaxy survey centered on the Hubble Deep Field South. Images were obtained with the Big Throughput Camera on the Blanco 4m telescope at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Harry I. Teplitz , Robert S. Hill , Eliot M. Malumuth , Nicholas R. Collins , Jonathan P. Gardner , Povilas Palunas , Bruce E. Woodgate