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We explore the enhanced self-calibration of photometric galaxy redshift distributions, $n(z)$, through the combination of up to six two-point functions. Our $\rm 3\times2pt$ configuration is comprised of photometric shear, spectroscopic…

We propose a method to measure the ellipticities of dark matter halos using the lens-shear-shear 3-point correlation function. This method is immune to effects of galaxy-halo misalignments that can potentially limit 2-point galaxy-galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Susmita Adhikari , Chun Yin Ricky Chue , Neal Dalal

With increasingly large data sets, weak lensing measurements are able to measure cosmological parameters with ever greater precision. However this increased accuracy also places greater demands on the statistical tools used to extract the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Pires , J. -L. Starck , A. Amara , R. Teyssier , A. Refregier , J. Fadili

The results from weak gravitational lensing analyses are subject to a cosmic variance error term that has previously been estimated assuming Gaussian statistics. In this letter we address the issue of estimating cosmic variance errors for…

Statistical weak lensing by large-scale structure -- cosmic shear -- is a promising cosmological tool, which has motivated the design of several large upcoming surveys. Here, we present a measurement of cosmic shear using coadded Sloan…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-15 Eric M. Huff , Tim Eifler , Christopher M. Hirata , Rachel Mandelbaum , David Schlegel , Uros Seljak

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

Cosmic shear data contains a large amount of cosmological information encapsulated in the non-Gaussian features of the weak lensing mass maps. This information can be extracted using non-Gaussian statistics. We compare the constraining…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Dominik Zürcher , Janis Fluri , Raphael Sgier , Tomasz Kacprzak , Alexandre Refregier

With the availability of galaxy distance indicators in weak lensing surveys, lensing tomography can be harnessed to constrain the three-dimensional (3D) matter power spectrum over a range of redshift and physical scale. By combining…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Patrick Simon

We present predictions for cosmological parameter constraints from combined measurements of second- and third-order statistics of cosmic shear. We define the generalized third-order aperture mass statistics <M_ap^3> and show that it…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin Kilbinger , Peter Schneider

The intrinsic alignment (IA) of galaxies has been shown to be a significant barrier to precision cosmic shear measurements. (Zhang, 2010, ApJ, 720, 1090) proposed a self-calibration technique for the power spectrum to calculate the induced…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. A. Troxel , Mustapha Ishak

With the advent of high-quality surveys in cosmology the full three-point correlation function will be a valuable statistic for describing structure formation models. It contains information on cosmological parameters and detailed halo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Masahiro Takada , Bhuvnesh Jain

Owing to their more extensive sky coverage and tighter control on systematic errors, future deep weak lensing surveys should provide a better statistical picture of the dark matter clustering beyond the level of the power spectrum. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Dipak Munshi , Joseph Smidt , Alan Heavens , Peter Coles , Asantha Cooray

Recent cosmological analyses with large-scale structure and weak lensing measurements, usually referred to as 3$\times$2pt, had to discard a lot of signal-to-noise from small scales due to our inability to accurately model non-linearities…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-26 J. Prat , G. Zacharegkas , Y. Park , N. MacCrann , E. R. Switzer , S. Pandey , C. Chang , J. Blazek , R. Miquel , A. Alarcon , O. Alves , A. Amon , F. Andrade-Oliveira , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , R. Chen , A. Choi , H. Camacho , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , R. Cawthon , J. Cordero , M. Crocce , C. Davis , J. DeRose , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , T. F. Eifler , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , X. Fang , A. Ferté , P. Fosalba , O. Friedrich , M. Gatti , G. Giannini , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , H. Huang , E. M. Huff , M. Jarvis , E. Krause , N. Kuropatkin , P. -F. Leget , J. McCullough , J. Myles , A. Navarro-Alsina , A. Porredon , M. Raveri , R. P. Rollins , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , C. Sánchez , J. Sanchez , L. F. Secco , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , M. A. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , T. N. Varga , B. Yanny , B. Yin , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. Carretero , M. Costanzi , M. E. S. Pereira , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , D. W. Gerdes , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , M. Lima , F. Menanteau , J. Mena-Fernández , A. Palmese , M. Paterno , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , E. Sanchez , M. Schubnell , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , C. To , N. Weaverdyck , J. Weller

We study the cosmological information of weak lensing (WL) peaks, focusing on two other statistics besides their abundance: the stacked tangential-shear profiles and the peak-peak correlation function. We use a large ensemble of simulated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Laura Marian , Robert E. Smith , Stefan Hilbert , Peter Schneider

Recently, it has been shown that cross-correlating CMB lensing and 3D cosmic shear allows to considerably tighten cosmological parameter constraints. We investigate whether similar improvement can be achieved in a conventional tomographic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-27 Philipp M. Merkel , Bjoern Malte Schaefer

Optical imaging surveys measure both the galaxy density and the gravitational lensing-induced shear fields across the sky. Recently, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) collaboration used a joint fit to two-point correlations between these…

Kinematic weak lensing describes the distortion of a galaxy's projected velocity field due to lensing shear, an effect recently reported for the first time by Gurri et al. based on a sample of 18 galaxies at $z \sim 0.1$. In this paper, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Brian DiGiorgio , Kevin Bundy , Kyle B. Westfall , Alexie Leauthaud , David Stark

Precise cosmological inference from next-generation weak lensing surveys requires extracting non-Gaussian information beyond standard two-point statistics. We present a hybrid machine-learning (ML) framework that integrates field-level…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Jiacheng Ding , Chen Su , Ji Yao , Le Zhang , Huanyuan Shan

Cosmic shear statistics, such as the two-point correlation function (2PCF), can be evaluated with the PDF-SYM method instead of the traditional weighted-sum approach. It makes use of the full PDF information of the shear estimators, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-18 Zhenjie Liu , Jun Zhang , Hekun Li , Zhi Shen , Cong Liu

We study the optimal use of third order statistics in the analysis of weak lensing by large-scale structure. These higher order statistics have long been advocated as a powerful tool to break measured degeneracies between cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-15 S. Vafaei , T. Lu , L. van Waerbeke , E. Semboloni , C. Heymans , U. L. Pen