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We present a joint weak lensing and X-ray analysis of 4 deg$^2$ from the CFHTLS and XMM-LSS surveys. Our weak lensing analysis is the first analysis of a real survey using shapelets, a new generation weak lensing analysis method. We create…

We present galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements from 1321 sq. deg. of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 1 (Y1) data. The lens sample consists of a selection of 660,000 red galaxies with high-precision photometric redshifts, known as redMaGiC,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 J. Prat , C. Sánchez , Y. Fang , D. Gruen , J. Elvin-Poole , N. Kokron , L. F. Secco , B. Jain , R. Miquel , N. MacCrann , M. A. Troxel , A. Alarcon , D. Bacon , G. M. Bernstein , J. Blazek , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , M. Crocce , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , J. P. Dietrich , A. Drlica-Wagner , O. Friedrich , M. Gatti , W. G. Hartley , B. Hoyle , E. M. Huff , M. Jarvis , M. M. Rau , R. P. Rollins , A. J. Ross , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , S. Samuroff , E. Sheldon , T. N. Varga , P. Vielzeuf , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , J. Annis , K. Bechtol , A. Benoit-Lévy , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , T. F. Eifler , E. Fernandez , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , D. A. Goldstein , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , D. Kirk , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , J. J. Mohr , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Smith , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , R. H. Wechsler , B. Yanny , Y. Zhang

We present $u'g'R$ optical images taken with the MMT/Megacam and the Subaru/Suprime of the Extended Groth Strip survey. The total survey covers an area of about $\sim 1$ degree$^2$, including four sub-fields and is optimized for the study…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-24 Ying-He Zhao , Jia-Sheng Huang , M. L. N. Ashby , G. G. Fazio , S. Miyazaki

We present an 8 sigma detection of cosmic magnification measured by the variation of quasar density due to gravitational lensing by foreground large scale structure. To make this measurement we used 3800 square degrees of photometric…

We present the second public data release (DR2) from the DECam Local Volume Exploration survey (DELVE). DELVE DR2 combines new DECam observations with archival DECam data from the Dark Energy Survey, the DECam Legacy Survey, and other DECam…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 A. Drlica-Wagner , P. S. Ferguson , M. Adamów , M. Aguena , F. Andrade-Oliveira , D. Bacon , K. Bechtol , E. F. Bell , E. Bertin , P. Bilaji , S. Bocquet , C. R. Bom , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. A. Carballo-Bello , J. L. Carlin , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , W. Cerny , C. Chang , Y. Choi , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , D. Crnojević , L. N. da Costa , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , J. Esteves , S. Everett , I. Ferrero , M. Fitzpatrick , B. Flaugher , D. Friedel , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , W. G. Hartley , D. Hernandez-Lang , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , A. K. Hughes , A. Jacques , D. J. James , M. D. Johnson , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , C. Lidman , H. Lin , M. March , J. L. Marshall , D. Martínez-Delgado , C. E. Martínez-Vázquez , P. Massana , S. Mau , M. McNanna , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , A. E. Miller , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , B. Mutlu-Pakdil , R. R. Muñoz , E. H. Neilsen , D. L. Nidever , R. Nikutta , J. L. Nilo Castellon , N. E. D. Noël , R. L. C. Ogando , K. A. G. Olsen , A. B. Pace , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , M. E. S. Pereira , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , J. Prat , A. H. Riley , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , M. Sako , J. D. Sakowska , E. Sanchez , F. J. Sánchez , D. J. Sand , L. Santana-Silva , B. Santiago , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , J. D. Simon , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , G. S. Stringfellow , E. Suchyta , D. J. Suson , C. Y. Tan , G. Tarle , K. Tavangar , D. Thomas , C. To , E. J. Tollerud , M. A. Troxel , D. L. Tucker , T. N. Varga , A. K. Vivas , A. R. Walker , J. Weller , R. D. Wilkinson , J. F. Wu , B. Yanny , E. Zaborowski , A. Zenteno

Lensing magnification and stacked shear measurements of galaxy clusters rely on measuring the density of background galaxies behind the clusters. The most common ways of measuring this quantity ignore the fact that some fraction of the sky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Melanie Simet , Rachel Mandelbaum

We present the Hubble Deep UV Legacy Survey (HDUV), a 132 orbit imaging program with the WFC3/UVIS camera onboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The HDUV extends and builds on the few previous UV imaging surveys in the two…

We describe the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Deep Fields, a set of images and associated multi-wavelength catalogue ($ugrizJHKs$) built from Dark Energy Camera (DECam) and Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) data. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-17 W. G. Hartley , A. Choi , A. Amon , R. A. Gruendl , E. Sheldon , I. Harrison , G. M. Bernstein , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , B. Yanny , K. Eckert , H. T. Diehl , A. Alarcon , M. Banerji , K. Bechtol , R. Buchs , S. Cantu , C. Conselice , J. Cordero , C. Davis , T. M. Davis , S. Dodelson , A. Drlica-Wagner , S. Everett , A. Ferté , D. Gruen , K. Honscheid , M. Jarvis , M. D. Johnson , N. Kokron , N. MacCrann , J. Myles , A. B. Pace , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , M. E. S. Pereira , A. A. Plazas , J. Prat , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , E. S. Rykoff , S. Samuroff , C. Sánchez , L. F. Secco , F. Tarsitano , A. Tong , M. A. Troxel , Z. Vasquez , K. Wang , C. Zhou , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , S. Bhargava , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , J. De Vicente , J. DeRose , S. Desai , J. P. Dietrich , T. F. Eifler , J. Elvin-Poole , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , D. Huterer , D. J. James , S. Kent , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , E. Neilsen , R. L. C. Ogando , S. Pandey , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , S. Serrano , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , T. N. Varga , A. R. Walker , W. Wester , R. D. Wilkinson , J. Zuntz

Time delays between lensed multiple images have been known to provide an interesting probe of the Hubble constant, but such application is often limited by degeneracies with the shape of lens potentials. We propose a new statistical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Masamune Oguri

We present galaxy--galaxy lensing (GGL) measurements from the full six years of data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES Y6), covering $4031\,\mathrm{deg}^2$ and used in the DES Y6 $3\times2$pt cosmological analysis. We use the MagLim++ lens…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-22 G. Giannini , G. Camacho-Ciurana , A. Whyley , J. Prat , J. Blazek , C. Sánchez , G. Zacharegkas , A. Alarcon , E. Legnani , A. Amon , D. Anbajagane , S. Avila , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , S. Bocquet , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , M. Crocce , W. d'Assignies , J. De Vicente , A. Drlica-Wagner , S. Elvin-Poole , A. Ferté , M. Gatti , D. Gruen , M. Jarvis , M. Manera , S. Mau , J. McCullough , F. Menanteau , J. Myles , A. Porredon , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , A. Roodman , E. S. Rykoff , S. Samuroff , D. Sanchez Cid , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , T. Schutt , M. A. Troxel , N. Weaverdyck , M. Yamamoto , B. Yin , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , H. Camacho , J. Carretero , L. N. da Costa , M. E. da Silva Pereira , T. M. Davis , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , C. Doux , T. F. Eifler , S. Everett , A. E. Evrard , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , P. Giles , K. Glazebrook , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , B. Jain , D. J. James , N. Jeffrey , T. Kacprzak , S. Kent , E. Krause , O. Lahav , S. Lee , J. L. Marshall , J. Mena-Fernández , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , J. Muir , R. C. Nichol , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , M. Paterno , W. J. Percival , D. Petravick , A. A. Plazas Malagón , M. Raveri , R. Rosenfeld , E. Sanchez , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , J. Allyn. Smith , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , M. Vincenzi , A. R. Walker , P. Wiseman , B. Yanny

This paper describes a new catalog that supplements the existing DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey photometric and spectroscopic catalogs with ugriz photometry from two other surveys; the Canada-France-Hawaii Legacy Survey (CFHTLS) and the Sloan…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-04 Daniel J. Matthews , Jeffrey A. Newman , Alison L. Coil , Michael C. Cooper , Stephen D. J. Gwyn

The rapid growth of satellite constellations, particularly Starlink, is increasingly affecting ground-based astronomy. In this project, we developed a workflow to detect, identify, and measure the brightness of trails from artificial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 Alexandra Serrano Mendoza , Meredith L. Rawls , Andrés Alejandro Plazas Malagón

Earth observation (EO) satellite missions have been providing detailed images about the state of the Earth and its land cover for over 50 years. Long term missions, such as NASA's Landsat, Terra, and Aqua satellites, and more recently, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-27 Lynn Miller , Charlotte Pelletier , Geoffrey I. Webb

We measure the tidal alignment of the major axes of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from the Legacy Imaging Survey and use it to infer the artificial redshift-space distortion signature that will arise from an orientation-dependent,…

The existing large scale weak lensing surveys typically reserve the best seeing conditions for a certain optical band to minimize shape measurement errors and maximize the number of usable background galaxies. This is because most popular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-02 Cong Liu , Jun Zhang , Hekun Li , Pedro Alonso Vaquero , Wenting Wang

We explore the science prospects of a 14,000 deg$^2$ Kinematic Lensing (KL) survey with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and overlapping imaging surveys. KL infers the cosmic shear signal by jointly forward modeling the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-31 Jiachuan Xu , Tim Eifler , Eason Wang , Elisabeth Krause , Spencer Everett , Eric Huff , Pranjal R. S. , Yu-Hsiu Huang

The ratio of the average tangential shear signal of different weak lensing source populations around the same lens galaxies, also known as a shear ratio, provides an important test of lensing systematics and a potential source of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-01 Ni Emas , Chris Blake , Rossana Ruggeri , Anna Porredon

The existing computational visual attention systems have focused on the objective to basically simulate and understand the concept of visual attention system in adults. Consequently, the impact of observer's age in scene viewing behavior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Onkar Krishna , Kiyoharu Aizawa , Go Irie

The ALMA lensing cluster survey (ALCS) is a 96-hr large program dedicated to uncovering and characterizing intrinsically faint continuum sources and line emitters with the assistance of gravitational lensing. All 33 cluster fields were…