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Recent studies have shown that the primordial non-Gaussianity affects clustering of dark matter halos through a scale-dependent bias and various constraints on the non-Gaussianity through this scale-dependent bias have been placed. Here we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-02 Yoshitaka Takeuchi , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Takahiko Matsubara

We detect weak gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at the location of the WISExSCOS (WxS) galaxies using the publicly available Planck lensing convergence map. By stacking the lensing convergence map at the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 Srinivasan Raghunathan , Federico Bianchini , Christian L. Reichardt

We report the measurement of the angular power spectrum of cross-correlation between the unresolved component of the Fermi-LAT gamma-ray sky-maps and the CMB lensing potential map reconstructed by the Planck satellite. The matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 N. Fornengo , L. Perotto , M. Regis , S. Camera

Weak gravitational lensing causes subtle changes in the apparent shapes of galaxies due to the bending of light by the gravity of foreground masses. By measuring the shapes of large numbers of galaxies (millions in recent surveys, up to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-08 Yuki Okura , Andrea Petri , Morgan May , Andrés A. Plazas , Toru Tamagawa

The cross-correlation between cosmic microwave background (CMB) gravitational lensing and large-scale structure tracers will be an important cosmological probe in the coming years. Quadratic estimators provide a simple and powerful (if…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-10 Giulio Fabbian , Antony Lewis , Dominic Beck

We investigate the abundance, small-scale clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing signal of galaxies in the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). To this end, we present new measurements of the redshift and stellar mass dependence of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 Johannes U. Lange , Xiaohu Yang , Hong Guo , Wentao Luo , Frank C. van den Bosch

For a wide variety of cosmological models characterized by the cosmic mass density $\Omega_M$ and the normalized cosmological constant $\Omega_{\Lambda}$, we derive an analytic expression for the estimate of magnification cross-sections by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Zong-Hong Zhu

Weak lensing has become an increasingly important tool in cosmology and the use of galaxy shapes to measure cosmic shear has become routine. The weak-lensing distortion tensor contains two other effects in addition to the two components of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 Daniel B. Thomas , Lee Whittaker , Stefano Camera , Michael L. Brown

The lensing power spectrum from cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps will be measured with unprecedented precision with upcoming experiments, including upgrades to ACT and SPT. Achieving significant improvements in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. van Engelen , S. Bhattacharya , N. Sehgal , G. P. Holder , O. Zahn , D. Nagai

Power spectra and cross-correlation measurements from the weak gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and the cosmic shearing of faint galaxies images will help shed light on quantities hidden from the CMB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 Wayne Hu

We discuss the synergy of the cosmic shear and CMB lensing experiments to simultaneously constrain the neutrino mass and dark energy properties. Taking fully account of the CMB lensing, cosmic shear, CMB anisotropies, and their cross…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-21 Toshiya Namikawa , Shun Saito , Atsushi Taruya

Upcoming deep optical surveys such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time will scan the sky to unprecedented depths and detect billions of galaxies. This amount of detections will however cause the apparent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-04 Manon Ramel , Cyrille Doux , Marine Kuna

We present a novel approach to measuring the expansion rate and the geometry of the Universe, which combine time-delay cosmography in lens galaxy clusters with pure samples of 'cosmic chronometers' (CCs) by probing the member galaxies. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-11 P. Bergamini , S. Schuldt , A. Acebron , C. Grillo , U. Mestric , G. Granata , G. B. Caminha , M. Meneghetti , A. Mercurio , P. Rosati , S. H. Suyu , E. Vanzella

Weak lensing of galaxies by large scale structure can potentially measure cosmological quantities as accurately as the cosmic microwave background (CMB). However, the relation between observables and fundamental parameters is more complex…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Wayne Hu , Max Tegmark

In this paper we present results of applying the shear-ratio method to the RCSLenS data. The method takes the ratio of the mean of the weak lensing tangential shear signal about galaxy clusters, averaged over all clusters of the same…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-14 T. D. Kitching , M. Viola , H. Hildebrandt , A. Choi , T. Erben , D. G. Gilbank , C. Heymans , L. Miller , R. Nakajima , E. van Uitert

Cosmological weak lensing gives rise to correlations in the ellipticities of faint galaxies. This cosmic shear signal depends upon the matter power spectrum, thus providing a means to constrain cosmological parameters. It has recently been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Lindsay King , Peter Schneider

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…

We report a $5.3\sigma$ detection of the gravitational lensing effect of cosmic voids from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic (BOSS) Data Release 12 seen in the $Planck$ 2018 cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing convergence map. To…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-27 Srinivasan Raghunathan , Seshadri Nadathur , Blake D. Sherwin , Nathan Whitehorn

We assess the accuracy with which future galaxy surveys can measure cosmological parameters by deriving a handy approximation that we validate numerically. We find that galaxy surveys are quite complementary to future Cosmic Microwave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 Max Tegmark

Only galaxies bright enough and large enough to be unambiguously identified and measured are included in galaxy surveys used to estimate cosmic shear. We demonstrate that because gravitational lensing can scatter galaxies across the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-17 Fabian Schmidt , Eduardo Rozo , Scott Dodelson , Lam Hui , Erin Sheldon