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Data from the Euclid space telescope will enable cosmic shear measurements with very small statistical errors, requiring corresponding systematic error control level. A common approach to correct for shear biases involves calibrating shape…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-16 Euclid Collaboration , D. Scognamiglio , T. Schrabback , M. Tewes , B. Gillis , H. Hoekstra , E. M. Huff , O. Marggraf , T. Kitching , R. Massey , I. Tereno , C. S. Carvalho , A. Robertson , G. Congedo , N. Aghanim , B. Altieri , A. Amara , S. Andreon , N. Auricchio , C. Baccigalupi , M. Baldi , S. Bardelli , P. Battaglia , C. Bodendorf , D. Bonino , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , J. Brinchmann , S. Camera , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , V. F. Cardone , J. Carretero , S. Casas , F. J. Castander , M. Castellano , G. Castignani , S. Cavuoti , A. Cimatti , C. Colodro-Conde , C. J. Conselice , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , F. Courbin , H. M. Courtois , M. Cropper , A. Da Silva , H. Degaudenzi , G. De Lucia , A. M. Di Giorgio , J. Dinis , F. Dubath , C. A. J. Duncan , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , M. Farina , S. Farrens , S. Ferriol , P. Fosalba , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , S. Galeotta , C. Giocoli , P. Gómez-Alvarez , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , L. Guzzo , S. V. H. Haugan , W. Holmes , F. Hormuth , A. Hornstrup , P. Hudelot , K. Jahnke , B. Joachimi , E. Keihänen , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , M. Kilbinger , B. Kubik , M. Kümmel , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , V. Lindholm , I. Lloro , G. Mainetti , E. Maiorano , O. Mansutti , K. Markovic , M. Martinelli , N. Martinet , F. Marulli , E. Medinaceli , S. Mei , Y. Mellier , M. Meneghetti , G. Meylan , M. Moresco , L. Moscardini , R. Nakajima , S. -M. Niemi , J. W. Nightingale , C. Padilla , S. Paltani , F. Pasian , K. Pedersen , S. Pires , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , L. A. Popa , L. Pozzetti , F. Raison , R. Rebolo , A. Renzi , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , E. Rossetti , R. Saglia , Z. Sakr , A. G. Sánchez , D. Sapone , B. Sartoris , R. Scaramella , M. Schirmer , P. Schneider , A. Secroun , G. Seidel , S. Serrano , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , J. Skottfelt , L. Stanco , J. -L. Starck , J. Steinwagner , P. Tallada-Crespí , A. N. Taylor , H. I. Teplitz , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , I. Tutusaus , L. Valenziano , T. Vassallo , G. Verdoes Kleijn , A. Veropalumbo , Y. Wang , J. Weller , M. Wetzstein , G. Zamorani , E. Zucca , A. Biviano , M. Bolzonella , A. Boucaud , E. Bozzo , C. Burigana , M. Calabrese , J. A. Escartin Vigo , J. Gracia-Carpio , N. Mauri , A. Pezzotta , M. Pöntinen , C. Porciani , V. Scottez , M. Tenti , M. Viel , M. Wiesmann , Y. Akrami , V. Allevato , S. Anselmi , M. Ballardini , L. Blot , S. Borgani , S. Bruton , R. Cabanac , A. Calabro , A. Cappi , T. Castro , K. C. Chambers , S. Contarini , A. R. Cooray , S. Davini , B. De Caro , G. Desprez , A. Díaz-Sánchez , S. Di Domizio , H. Dole , S. Escoffier , A. G. Ferrari , I. Ferrero , F. Fornari , L. Gabarra , K. Ganga , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , F. Giacomini , F. Gianotti , G. Gozaliasl , A. Hall , S. Hemmati , H. Hildebrandt , J. Hjorth , A. Jimenez Muñoz , J. J. E. Kajava , V. Kansal , D. Karagiannis , C. C. Kirkpatrick , J. Le Graet , L. Legrand , A. Loureiro , J. Macias-Perez , G. Maggio , M. Magliocchetti , F. Mannucci , R. Maoli , C. J. A. P. Martins , S. Matthew , L. Maurin , R. B. Metcalf , P. Monaco , C. Moretti , G. Morgante , Nicholas A. Walton , L. Patrizii , V. Popa , D. Potter , P. Reimberg , I. Risso , P. -F. Rocci , R. P. Rollins , M. Sahlén , A. Schneider , M. Sereno , P. Simon , A. Spurio Mancini , K. Tanidis , C. Tao , G. Testera , R. Teyssier , S. Toft , S. Tosi , A. Troja , M. Tucci , C. Valieri , J. Valiviita , D. Vergani , G. Verza

Pinning down the total neutrino mass and the dark energy equation of state is a key aim for upcoming galaxy surveys. Weak lensing is a unique probe of the total matter distribution whose non-Gaussian statistics can be quantified by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-08 Aoife Boyle , Cora Uhlemann , Oliver Friedrich , Alexandre Barthelemy , Sandrine Codis , Francis Bernardeau , Carlo Giocoli , Marco Baldi

We show that the abundance and redshift distribution ($dN/dz$) of galaxy clusters in future high--yield cluster surveys, combined with the spatial power spectrum ($P_c(k)$) of the same clusters, can place significant constraints on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Sheng Wang , Justin Khoury , Zoltan Haiman , Morgan May

With a primary goal of conducting precision weak lensing measurements from space, the COSMOS survey has imaged the largest contiguous area observed by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to date using the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS).…

We present cosmological constraints from 2D weak gravitational lensing by the large-scale structure in the Canada-France Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS) which spans 154 square degrees in five optical bands. Using accurate…

This paper presents the first application of 3D cosmic shear to a wide-field weak lensing survey. 3D cosmic shear is a technique that analyses weak lensing in three dimensions using a spherical harmonic approach, and does not bin data in…

We present a new method for joint cosmological parameter inference and cluster mass calibration from a combination of weak lensing measurements and the abundance of thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) selected galaxy clusters. We combine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Andrina Nicola , Jo Dunkley , David N. Spergel

In this paper, we develop a full statistical method for the pairwise velocity estimator previously proposed, and apply Cosmicflows-2 catalogue to this method to constrain cosmology. We first calculate the covariance matrix for line-of-sight…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 Yin-Zhe Ma , Min Li , Ping He

The cosmic curvature, a fundamental parameter for cosmology could hold deep clues to inflation and cosmic origins. We propose an improved model-independent method to constrain the cosmic curvature by combining the constructed Hubble diagram…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-19 Tonghua Liu , Shuo Cao , Jia Zhang , Marek Biesiada , Yuting Liu , Yujie Lian

We address key points for an efficient implementation of likelihood codes for modern weak lensing large-scale structure surveys. Specifically, we focus on the joint weak lensing convergence power spectrum-bispectrum probe and we tackle the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-02 Matteo Rizzato , Karim Benabed , Francis Bernardeau , Fabien Lacasa

We present cosmological constraints from weak lensing with the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) first-year (Y1) data, using a simulation-based inference (SBI) method. % We explore the performance of a set of higher-order statistics (HOS)…

Weak gravitational lensing is a powerful cosmological probe, with non--Gaussian features potentially containing the majority of the information. We examine constraints on the parameter triplet $(\Omega_m,w,\sigma_8)$ from non-Gaussian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Andrea Petri , Jia Liu , Zoltan Haiman , Morgan May , Lam Hui , Jan M. Kratochvil

The weak lensing power spectrum is a powerful tool to probe cosmological parameters. Additionally, lensing peak counts contain cosmological information beyond the power spectrum. Both of these statistics can be affected by the preferential…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-07 Jia Liu , Zoltán Haiman , Lam Hui , Jan M. Kratochvil , Morgan May

In tomographic weak lensing surveys, the presence of nulling properties reveals symmetries inherent in the data, which rely solely on the geometrical properties of the Universe. Ensuring its validity thus provides us with constraints on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-05 David Touzeau , Francis Bernardeau , Karim Benabed , Sandrine Codis

Field-level inference is emerging as a promising technique for optimally extracting information from cosmological datasets. Indeed, previous analyses have shown field-based inference produces tighter parameter constraints than power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-04 Supranta S. Boruah , Eduardo Rozo

Weak lensing measurements are entering a precision era to statistically map the distribution of matter in the universe. The most common measurement has been of the variance of the projected surface density of matter, which corresponds to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tong-Jie Zhang , Ue-Li Pen , Pengjie Zhang , John Dubinski

Weak gravitational lensing is a powerful probe for constraining cosmological parameters, but its success relies on accurate shear measurements. In this paper, we use image simulations to investigate how a joint analysis of high-resolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-22 Shiyang Zhang , Shun-Sheng Li , Henk Hoekstra

We present cosmological constraints derived from peak counts, minimum counts, and the angular power spectrum of the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam first-year (HSC Y1) weak lensing shear catalog. Weak lensing peak and minimum counts contain…

We identify voids as maximal non-overlapping spheres within the haloes of the Uchuu simulation and three smaller halo simulation boxes with smaller volume and different $\sigma_{8}$ values, and galaxies with redshift in the range…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-05 Elena Fernández-García , Juan E. Betancort-Rijo , Francisco Prada , Tomoaki Ishiyama , Anatoly Klypin

The weak gravitational lensing of distant galaxies by large-scale structure is expected to become a powerful probe of dark energy. By measuring the ellipticities of large numbers of background galaxies, the subtle gravitational distortion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Charles Shapiro