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Inferring spatial curvature of the Universe with high-fidelity is a longstanding interest in cosmology. However, the strong degeneracy between dark energy equation-of-state parameter $w$ and curvature density parameter $\Omega_{\rm K}$ has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-11 Yang Hu , Suhail Dhawan

As weak lensing surveys become deeper, they reveal more non-Gaussian aspects of the convergence field which can only be extracted using statistics beyond the power spectrum. In Cheng et al. (2020) we showed that the scattering transform, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-07 Sihao Cheng , Brice Ménard

We present a method to implement the idea of Jain & Taylor to constrain cosmological parameters with weak gravitational lensing. Photometric redshift information on foreground galaxies is used to produce templates of the mass structure at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. M. Bernstein , B. Jain

Future large ensembles of time delay lenses have the potential to provide interesting cosmological constraints complementary to those of other methods. In a flat universe with constant w including a Planck prior, LSST time delay…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dan Coe , Leonidas Moustakas

We estimate uncertainties of cosmological parameters for phenomenological interacting dark energy models using weak lensing convergence power spectrum and bispectrum. We focus on the bispectrum tomography and examine how well the weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-31 Rui An , Chang Feng , Bin Wang

We study the statistics of peaks in a weak lensing reconstructed mass map of the first 450 square degrees of the Kilo Degree Survey. The map is computed with aperture masses directly applied to the shear field with an NFW-like compensated…

(Abridged) Weak gravitational lensing induces distortions on the images of background galaxies, and thus provides a direct measure of mass fluctuations in the universe. Since the distortions induced by lensing on the images of background…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 David Bacon , Alexandre Refregier , Douglas Clowe , Richard Ellis

Weak lensing of galaxies by large scale structure can potentially measure cosmological quantities as accurately as the cosmic microwave background (CMB). However, the relation between observables and fundamental parameters is more complex…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Wayne Hu , Max Tegmark

We investigate the synergy of upcoming galaxy surveys and gravitational wave (GW) experiments in constraining late-time cosmology, examining the cross-correlations between the weak lensing of gravitational waves (GW-WL) and the galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Anna Balaudo , Alice Garoffolo , Matteo Martinelli , Suvodip Mukherjee , Alessandra Silvestri

We investigate the potential of weak gravitational lensing maps to differentiate between distinct cosmological models, considering cosmic variance due to a limited map extension and the presence of noise. We introduce a measure of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Antonio Guimarães

We forecast and optimize the cosmological power of various weak-lensing aperture mass ($M_{\rm ap}$) map statistics for future cosmic shear surveys, including peaks, voids, and the full distribution of pixels (1D $M_{\rm ap}$). These…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-10 Nicolas Martinet , Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Eric Jullo , Peter Schneider

The complete 10-year survey from the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will image $\sim$ 20,000 square degrees of sky in six filter bands every few nights, bringing the final survey depth to $r\sim27.5$, with over 4 billion well…

We present parameter estimation forecasts for present and future 3D cosmic shear surveys. We demonstrate that, in conjunction with results from cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments, the properties of dark energy can be estimated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. F. Heavens , T. D. Kitching , A. N. Taylor

We present cosmological parameter constraints from a tomographic weak gravitational lensing analysis of ~450deg$^2$ of imaging data from the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS). For a flat $\Lambda$CDM cosmology with a prior on $H_0$ that encompasses…

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

Constraining cosmology using weak gravitational lensing consists of comparing a measured feature vector of dimension $N_b$ with its simulated counterpart. An accurate estimate of the $N_b\times N_b$ feature covariance matrix $\mathbf{C}$ is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-28 Andrea Petri , Zoltán Haiman , Morgan May

Weak gravitational lensing (WL) surveys provide insight into the matter distribution over an extensive range of scales. Current WL results are in mild tension with cosmic microwave background measurements from the early Universe.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-07 Jeger C. Broxterman , Konrad Kuijken

Many recent studies have demonstrated that scaling arguments, such as the so-called hierarchical {\em ansatz}, are extremely useful in understanding the statistical properties of weak gravitational lensing. This is especially true on small…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dipak Munshi , Peter Coles

The cosmological information encapsulated within a weak lensing signal can be accessed via the power spectrum of the so called convergence. We use the Fisher information matrix formalism with the convergence power spectrum as the observable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-27 Adrian Vollmer