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Weak lensing is commonly measured using shear through galaxy ellipticities, or using the effect of magnification bias on galaxy number densities. Here, we report on the first detection of weak lensing magnification with a new, independent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Fabian Schmidt , Alexie Leauthaud , Richard Massey , Jason Rhodes , Matthew R. George , Anton M. Koekemoer , Alexis Finoguenov , Masayuki Tanaka

Weak lensing provides a direct measure of the distribution of mass in the universe, and is therefore a uniquely powerful probe of dark matter. Weak lensing can also be used to measure the twin phenomenon of dark energy, via its effect upon…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard Massey , Alexandre Refregier , Jason Rhodes

Weak gravitational lensing observations are a key science driver for the NASA Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST). To validate the performance of the WFIRST infrared detectors, we have performed a laboratory emulation of weak…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Suresh Seshadri , Charles Shapiro , Timothy Goodsall , Jason Fucik , Christopher M. Hirata , Jason Rhodes , Barnaby Rowe , Roger Smith

Weak gravitational lensing observations probe the spectrum and evolution of density fluctuations and the cosmological parameters which govern them but are currently limited to small fields and subject to selection biases. We show how the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Asantha Cooray , Wayne Hu , Jordi Miralda-Escude

We performed an automated comparison of the FIRST radio survey with the APM optical catalog to find radio lobes with optical counterparts. Based on an initial survey covering ~3000 square degrees, we selected a sample of 33 lens candidates…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Lehar , A. Buchalter , R. G. McMahon , C. S. Kochanek , T. W. B. Muxlow

In this third paper of a series on radio weak lensing for cosmology with the Square Kilometre Array, we scrutinise synergies between cosmic shear measurements in the radio and optical/near-IR bands for mitigating systematic effects. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 Stefano Camera , Ian Harrison , Anna Bonaldi , Michael L. Brown

The weak gravitational lensing effect, small coherent distortions of galaxy images by means of a gravitational tidal field, can be used to study the relation between the matter and galaxy distribution. In this context, weak lensing has so…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 P. Simon , P. Watts , P. Schneider , H. Hoekstra , M. D. Gladders , H. K. C. Yee , B. C. Hsieh , H. Lin

The number of strong lensing systems will soon increase by orders of magnitude thanks to sensitive, wide-field optical and infrared imaging surveys such as Euclid, Rubin-LSST, and Roman. A dramatic increase in strong lenses will also occur…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-10 Samuel McCarty , Liam Connor

This paper extends the method introduced in Rivi et al. (2016b) to measure galaxy ellipticities in the visibility domain for radio weak lensing surveys. In that paper we focused on the development and testing of the method for the simple…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-16 Marzia Rivi , Lance Miller

We study the accuracy with which weak lensing measurements could be made from a future space-based survey, predicting the subsequent precisions of 3-dimensional dark matter maps, projected 2-dimensional dark matter maps, and mass-selected…

Stringent observational constraints on the sub-galactic matter power spectrum would allow one to distinguish between the concordance $\Lambda$CDM and the various alternative dark-matter models that predict significantly different properties…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-21 D. Bayer , S. Chatterjee , L. V. E. Koopmans , S. Vegetti , J. P. McKean , T. Treu , C. D. Fassnacht , K. Glazebrook

We report the discovery of a new two-image gravitational lens system from the Cosmic Lens All-Sky Survey, CLASS B2319+051. Radio imaging with the Very Large Array (VLA) and Multi-Element Radio-Linked Interferometer Network (MERLIN) shows…

Radio weak lensing, while a highly promising complementary probe to optical weak lensing, will require incredible precision in the measurement of galaxy shape parameters. In this paper, we extend the Bayesian Inference for Radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-05 M. Rivi , M. Lochner , S. T. Balan , I. Harrison , F. B. Abdalla

Weak gravitational lensing of distant galaxies by foreground structures has proven to be a powerful tool to study the mass distribution in the universe. The advent of panoramic cameras on 4m class telescope has led to a first generation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 Henk Hoekstra

We describe a method to estimate the mass distribution of a gravitational lens and the position of the sources from combined strong and weak lensing data. The algorithm combines weak and strong lensing data in a unified way producing a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. M. Diego , M. Tegmark , P. Protopapas , H. B. Sandvik

The new generation radio telescopes, such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), are expected to reach sufficient sensitivity and resolution to provide large number densities of resolved faint sources, and therefore to open weak gravitational…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-12 Marzia Rivi , Lance Miller

Modern radio telescopes are routinely reaching depths where normal starforming galaxies are the dominant observed population. Realising the potential of radio as a tracer of star formation and black hole activity over cosmic time involves…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-01 I. Heywood , C. L. Hale , M. J. Jarvis , S. Makhathini , J. A. Peters , M. L. L. Sebokolodi , O. M. Smirnov

We utilize the galaxy shape catalogue from the first-year data release of the Subaru Hyper Suprime-cam Survey (HSC) to study the dark matter content of galaxy groups in the Universe using weak lensing. We use galaxy groups from the Galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 Divya Rana , Surhud More , Hironao Miyatake , Takahiro Nishimichi , Masahiro Takada , Aaron S. G. Robotham , Andrew M. Hopkins , Benne W. Holwerda

We present the first detection of weak gravitational lensing around spectroscopically confirmed dwarf galaxies, using the large overlap between DESI DR1 spectroscopic data and DECADE/DES weak lensing catalogs. A clean dwarf galaxy sample…