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Weak lensing is a potentially robust and model-independent cosmological probe, but its accuracy is dependent on knowledge of the redshift distribution of the source galaxies used. The most robust way to determine the redshift distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mustapha Ishak , Christopher M. Hirata

We present a new method for constructing three-dimensional mass maps from gravitational lensing shear data. We solve the lensing inversion problem using truncation of singular values (within the context of generalized least squares…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jake VanderPlas , Andrew Connolly , Bhuvnesh Jain , Mike Jarvis

Statistical isotropy (SI) has been one of the simplifying assumptions in cosmological model building. Experiments like WMAP and PLANCK are attempting to test this assumption by searching for specific signals in the Cosmic Microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-21 Aditya Rotti , Moumita Aich , Tarun Souradeep

Weak lensing convergence can be used directly to map and probe the dark mass distribution in the universe. Building on earlier studies, we recall how the statistics of the convergence field are related to the statistics of the underlying…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrew J. Barber , Dipak Munshi , Patrick Valageas

Weak lensing by large-scale structure is an invaluable cosmological tool given that most of the energy density of the concordance cosmology is invisible. Several large ground-based imaging surveys will attempt to measure this effect over…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 Eric M. Huff , Christopher M. Hirata , Rachel Mandelbaum , David Schlegel , Uros Seljak , Robert H. Lupton

Deep cosmic microwave background polarization experiments allow a very precise internal reconstruction of the gravitational lensing signal in pricinple. For this aim, likelihood-based or Bayesian methods are typically necessary, where very…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-25 Martin Reinecke , Sebastian Belkner , Julien Carron

We explore the reconstruction of the gravitational lensing field of the cosmic microwave background in real space showing that very little statistical information is lost when estimators of short range on the celestial sphere are used in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Martin Bucher , Carla Sofia Carvalho , Kavilan Moodley , Mathieu Remazeilles

(Abridged) Weak gravitational lensing is an ideal probe of the dark universe. In recent years, several linear methods have been developed to reconstruct the density distribution in the Universe in three dimensions, making use of photometric…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Adrienne Leonard , François-Xavier Dupé , Jean-Luc Starck

Hu [Phys. Rev. D62 (2000) 043007] has presented a harmonic-space method for calculating the effects of weak gravitational lensing on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) over the full sky. Computing the lensed power spectra to first order…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Anthony Challinor , Gayoung Chon

Recovering credible cosmological parameter constraints in a weak lensing shear analysis requires an accurate model that can be used to marginalize over nuisance parameters describing potential sources of systematic uncertainty, such as the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-20 Tianqing Zhang , Markus Michael Rau , Rachel Mandelbaum , Xiangchong Li , Ben Moews

We introduce a novel approach to reconstruct dark matter mass maps from weak gravitational lensing measurements. The cornerstone of the proposed method lies in a new modelling of the matter density field in the Universe as a mixture of two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 J. -L. Starck , K. E. Themelis , N. Jeffrey , A. Peel , F. Lanusse

We used the mark weighted correlation functions (MCFs), $W(s)$, to study the large scale structure of the Universe. We studied five types of MCFs with the weighting scheme $\rho^\alpha$, where $\rho$ is the local density, and $\alpha$ is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 Yizhao Yang , Haitao Miao , Qinglin Ma , Miaoxin Liu , Cristiano G. Sabiu , Jaime Forero-Romero , Yuanzhu Huang , Limin Lai , Qiyue Qian , Yi Zheng , Xiao-Dong Li

We describe a new map-making code for cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations. It implements fast algorithms for convolution and transpose convolution of two functions on the sphere (Wandelt & G\'{o}rski 2001). Our code can account…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Charmaine Armitage , Benjamin D. Wandelt

Galactic all-sky maps at very disparate frequencies, like in the radio and $\gamma$-ray regime, show similar morphological structures. This mutual information reflects the imprint of the various physical components of the interstellar…

Cosmological defects result from cosmological phase transitions in the early Universe and the dynamics reflects their symmetry-breaking mechanisms. These cosmological defects may be probed through weak lensing effects because they interact…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Shohei Saga , Kouichirou Horiguchi , Kiyotomo Ichiki

The detection of primordial $B$-mode polarisation of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a major observational goal in modern Cosmology, offering a potential window into inflationary physics through the measurement of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-22 Claudio Ranucci , Alessandro Carones , Léo Vacher , Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff , Carlo Baccigalupi

Recent studies have demonstrated that {\em secondary} non-Gaussianity induced by gravity will be detected with a high signal-to-noise (S/N) by future and even by on-going weak lensing surveys. One way to characterise such non-Gaussianity is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-05 D. Munshi , T. Namikawa , T. D. Kitching , J. D. McEwen , R. Takahashi , F. R. Bouchet , A. Taruya , B. Bose

Weak gravitational lensing of background galaxies offers an excellent opportunity to study the intervening distribution of matter. While much attention to date has focused on the two-point function of the cosmic shear, the three-point…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Scott Dodelson , Pengjie Zhang

Diffusion models have been used in cosmological applications as a generative model for fast simulations and to reconstruct underlying cosmological fields or astrophysical images from noisy data. These two tasks are often treated as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-07 Supranta S. Boruah , Michael Jacob , Bhuvnesh Jain

The lensless endoscope (LE) is a promising device to acquire in vivo images at a cellular scale. The tiny size of the probe enables a deep exploration of the tissues. Lensless endoscopy with a multicore fiber (MCF) commonly uses a spatial…