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We cross-correlate cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing and galaxy weak lensing maps using the Planck 2013 and 2015 data and the 154 deg^2 Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS). This measurement probes large-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-05 Jia Liu , J. Colin Hill

We present results of weak lensing cluster counts obtained from 11 sq.deg SuprimeCam data. Although the area is much smaller than previous work dealing with weak lensing peak statistics, the number density of galaxies usable for weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Takashi Hamana , Junya Sakurai , Michitaro Koike , Lance Miller

Scaling relations between galaxy cluster properties are crucial for understanding cosmology and baryonic physics. Rigorous calibration of the $M-L_X$ relation, employing weak lensing mass and consistent statistical methodology, is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-29 Isabel Pederneiras , Alexis Finoguenov , Eduardo Cypriano , Johan Comparat , Kimmo Kiiveri , Ludovic van Waerbeke , Renato Dupke

Weak lensing is one of the best available diagnostic tools to measure the total density profiles of distant clusters of galaxies. Unfortunately, it suffers from the well-known mass-sheet degeneracy, so that weak lensing analyses cannot lead…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Alessandro Sonnenfeld , Giuseppe Bertin , Marco Lombardi

In recent years, improvements in galaxy cluster observations have enabled a variety of tests of fundamental physics using these systems. In this work, we test the constancy of the speed of light, $c$, by combining X-ray gas mass fraction…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 R. F. L. Holanda , Marcelo Ferreira , Javier E. Gonzalez , S. H. Pereira

The relation between mass and concentration of galaxy clusters traces their formation and evolution. Massive lensing clusters were observed to be over-concentrated and following a steep scaling in tension with predictions from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Mauro Sereno , Carlo Giocoli , Stefano Ettori , Lauro Moscardini

We present weak lensing mass reconstructions for the 20 high-redshift clusters i n the ESO Distant Cluster Survey. The weak lensing analysis was performed on deep, 3-color optical images taken with VLT/FORS2, using a composite galaxy…

Gravitational lensing magnification is measured with a significance of 9.7 sigma on a large sample of galaxy clusters in the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS). This survey covers ~154 deg^2 and contains over 18,000…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Jes Ford , Hendrik Hildebrandt , Ludovic Van Waerbeke , Thomas Erben , Clotilde Laigle , Martha Milkeraitis , Christopher Morrison

The Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS) is a 100 deg^2 galaxy cluster survey designed to provide a large sample of optically selected clusters of galaxies with redshifts 0.1<z<1.4. The survey data are also useful for a variety of lensing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Henk Hoekstra , H. K. C. Yee , Michael D. Gladders

Weak gravitational lensing allows one to reconstruct the spatial distribution of the projected mass density across the sky. These "mass maps" provide a powerful tool for studying cosmology as they probe both luminous and dark matter. In…

We have analysed ~24 square degrees of R_C-band imaging data from the Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS), and measured the excess correlations between galaxy ellipticities on scales ranging from 1 to 30 arcminutes. We have used data from two…

Clusters of galaxies gravitationally lens the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, resulting in a distinct imprint in the CMB on arcminute scales. Measurement of this effect offers a promising way to constrain the masses of galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 E. J. Baxter , S. Raghunathan , T. M. Crawford , P. Fosalba , Z. Hou , G. P. Holder , Y. Omori , S. Patil , E. Rozo , T. M. C. Abbott , J. Annis , K. Aylor , A. Benoit-Lévy , B. A. Benson , E. Bertin , L. Bleem , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , J. Carlstrom , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , C. L. Chang , H-M. Cho , A. T. Crites , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , L. N. da Costa , C. B. D'Andrea , C. Davis , T. de Haan , S. Desai , M. A. Dobbs , S. Dodelson , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , J. Estrada , W. B. Everett , A. Fausti Neto , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. M. George , E. Gaztanaga , T. Giannantonio , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , N. W. Halverson , N. L. Harrington , W. G. Hartley , W. L. Holzapfel , K. Honscheid , J. D. Hrubes , B. Jain , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , T. Jeltema , L. Knox , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , T. S. Li , M. Lima , D. Luong-Van , A. Manzotti , M. March , D. P. Marrone , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , J. J. McMahon , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , S. S. Meyer , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , L. M. Mocanu , J. J. Mohr , T. Natoli , B. Nord , R. L. C. Ogando , S. Padin , A. A. Plazas , C. Pryke , D. Rapetti , C. L. Reichardt , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , J. E. Ruhl , E. Rykoff , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , J. T. Sayre , V. Scarpine , K. K. Schaffer , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Shirokoff , M. Smith , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Z. Staniszewski , A. Stark , K. Story , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , M. A. Troxel , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , A. R. Walker , R. Williamson , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz

We present an efficient and robust approach for extracting clusters of galaxies from weak lensing survey data and measuring their properties. We use simple, physically-motivated cluster models appropriate for such sparse, noisy data, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-07 F. Feroz , P. J. Marshall , M. P. Hobson

Cosmological constraints from galaxy clusters rely on accurate measurements of the mass and internal structure of clusters. An important source of systematic uncertainty in cluster mass and structure measurements is the secure selection of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-12 Felicia Ziparo , Graham P. Smith , Nobuhiro Okabe , Chris P. Haines , Maria J. Pereira , Eiichi Egami

Weak gravitational lensing is an important tool to estimate the masses of galaxy clusters, as it allows us to directly access their projected surface mass density along the line-of-sight (LOS) in a manner largely independent of their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-13 Constantin Payerne , Corentin Hanser , Calum Murray , Nathan Amouroux , Céline Combet

Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) has long been known to fail in galaxy clusters, implying a residual missing mass problem for clusters in this context. Here, using mass profiles derived from strong- and weak-lensing shear, as well as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-13 Benoit Famaey , Lorenzo Pizzuti , Ippocratis D. Saltas

We present a weak lensing analysis for galaxy clusters from the APEX-SZ survey. For $39$ massive galaxy clusters that were observed via the Sunyaev-Zel\textquotesingle dovich effect (SZE) with the APEX telescope, we analyse deep optical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-28 Matthias Klein , Holger Israel , Aarti Nagarajan , Frank Bertoldi , Florian Pacaud , Adrian T. Lee , Martin Sommer , Kaustuv Basu

The total mass of clusters of galaxies is a key parameter to study massive halos. It relates to numerous gravitational and baryonic processes at play in the framework of large scale structure formation, thus rendering its determination…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 G. Foëx , G. Soucail , E. Pointecouteau , M. Arnaud , M. Limousin , G. W. Pratt

We present cosmology results combining galaxy clustering and weak gravitational lensing measured in the full six years (Y6) of observations by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) covering $\sim$5000 deg$^2$. We perform a large-scale structure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-30 DES Collaboration , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Adamow , M. Aguena , A. Alarcon , S. S. Allam , O. Alves , A. Amon , D. Anbajagane , F. Andrade-Oliveira , S. Avila , D. Bacon , E. J. Baxter , J. Beas-Gonzalez , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , J. Blazek , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. Brout , H. Camacho , G. Camacho-Ciurana , R. Camilleri , G. Campailla , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , P. Carrilho , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , A. Choi , J. M. Coloma-Nadal , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , W. d'Assignies , L. N. da Costa , M. E. da Silva Pereira , T. M. Davis , J. De Vicente , J. DeRose , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , T. F. Eifler , J. Elvin-Poole , J. Estrada , S. Everett , A. E. Evrard , J. Fang , A. Farahi , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , G. Giannini , P. Giles , K. Glazebrook , M. Gorsuch , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , E. Henning , K. Herner , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , E. M. Huff , D. Huterer , B. Jain , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , N. Jeffrey , T. Jeltema , T. Kacprzak , S. Kent , A. Kovacs , E. Krause , R. Kron , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , S. Lee , E. Legnani , C. Lidman , H. Lin , N. MacCrann , M. Manera , T. Manning , J. L. Marshall , S. Mau , J. McCullough , J. Mena-Fernández , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , J. Muir , J. Myles , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , J. H. O'Donnell , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , M. Paterno , J. Peoples , W. J. Percival , D. Petravick , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Porredon , A. Pourtsidou , J. Prat , C. Preston , M. Raveri , W. Riquelme , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , P. Rogozenski , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , S. Samuroff , C. Sánchez , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , T. Schutt , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , N. Sherman , T. Shin , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , M. Tabbutt , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , A. Tong , L. Toribio San Cipriano , M. A. Troxel , M. Tsedrik , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , N. Weaverdyck , R. H. Wechsler , D. H. Weinberg , J. Weller , V. Wetzell , A. Whyley , R. D. Wilkinson , P. Wiseman , H. -Y. Wu , M. Yamamoto , B. Yanny , B. Yin , G. Zacharegkas , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz