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Cluster-scale strong lensing is a powerful tool for exploring the properties of dark matter and constraining cosmological models. However, due to the complex parameter space, pixelized strong lens modeling in galaxy clusters is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 Yushan Xie , Huanyuan Shan , Nan Li , Ran Li , Eric Jullo , Chen Su , Xiaoyue Cao , Jean-Paul Kneib , Ana Acebron , Mengfan He , Ji Yao , Chunxiang Wang , Jiadong Li , Yin Li

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

Recently, it has been shown that it is possible to reconstruct the projected mass distribution of a cluster from weak lensing provided that both the geometry of the universe and the probability distribution of galaxy redshifts are known;…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marco Lombardi , Giuseppe Bertin

AIMS. While weak lensing cannot resolve cluster cores and strong lensing is almost insensitive to density profiles outside the scale radius, combinations of both effects promise to constrain density profiles of galaxy clusters well, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Merten , M. Cacciato , M. Meneghetti , C. Mignone , M. Bartelmann

Complementary-label learning (CLL) is a weakly supervised learning paradigm for multiclass classification, where only complementary labels -- indicating classes an instance does not belong to -- are provided to the learning algorithm.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Nai-Xuan Ye , Tan-Ha Mai , Hsiu-Hsuan Wang , Wei-I Lin , Hsuan-Tien Lin

Gradually, the $\Lambda$CDM model starts to be challenged by observational data. Upcoming cosmological surveys will increase the number of detected galaxy clusters by several orders of magnitude. Therefore, shortly, clusters will provide…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-25 E. Artis , J-B Melin , J. G. Bartlett , C. Murray

It is widely recognized that cold dark matter models predict abundant dark matter substructure in halos of all sizes. Galaxy-galaxy lensing provides a unique opportunity to directly measure the presence and the mass of such substructures in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Priyamvada Natarajan , Volker Springel

We present a newly developed software package which implements a wide range of routines frequently used in Weak Gravitational Lensing (WL). With the continuously increasing size of the WL scientific community we feel that easy to use…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-18 Andrea Petri

Galaxy clusters enable unique opportunities to study cosmology, dark matter, galaxy evolution, and strongly-lensed transients. We here present a new cluster-finding algorithm, CluMPR (Clusters from Masses and Photometric Redshifts), that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 M. J. Yantovski-Barth , Jeffrey A. Newman , Biprateep Dey , Brett H. Andrews , Michael Eracleous , Jesse Golden-Marx , Rongpu Zhou

Cluster weak lensing is a sensitive probe of cosmology, particularly the amplitude of matter clustering $\sigma_8$ and matter density parameter $\Omega_m$. The main nuisance parameter in a cluster weak lensing cosmological analysis is the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Andrés N. Salcedo , Benjamin D. Wibking , David H. Weinberg , Hao-Yi Wu , Douglas Ferrer , Daniel Eisenstein , Philip Pinto

The upcoming XMM Large Scale Structure Survey (XMM-LSS) will ultimately provide a unique mapping of the distribution of X-ray sources in a contiguous 64 sq. deg. region. In particular, it will provide the 3-dimensional location of about 900…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexandre Refregier , Ivan Valtchanov , Marguerite Pierre

We explore the joint weak lensing and galaxy clustering analysis from the photometric survey operated by the China Space Station Telescope (CSST), and study the strength of the cosmological constraints. We employ a high-resolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-10 Qi Xiong , Yan Gong , Xingchen Zhou , Hengjie Lin , Furen Deng , Ziwei Li , Ayodeji Ibitoye , Xuelei Chen , Zuhui Fan , Qi Guo , Ming Li , Yun Liu , Wenxiang Pei

We forecast constraints on the amplitude of matter clustering sigma_8(z) achievable with the combination of cluster weak lensing and number counts, in current and next-generation weak lensing surveys. We advocate an approach, analogous to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-29 Hao-Yi Wu , David H. Weinberg , Andrés N. Salcedo , Benjamin D. Wibking

Weak gravitational lensing induces flux dependent fluctuations in the observed galaxy number density distribution. This cosmic magnification (magnification bias) effect in principle enables lensing reconstruction alternative to cosmic shear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-04 Ruijie Ma , Pengjie Zhang , Yu Yu , Jian Qin

We investigate whether the shapes of galaxy clusters inferred from weak gravitational lensing can be used as a test of the nature of dark matter. We analyse mock weak lensing data, with gravitational lenses extracted from cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Andrew Robertson , Eric Huff , Katarina Markovic

The clustering of matter on cosmological scales is an essential probe for studying the physical origin and composition of our Universe. To date, most of the direct studies have focused on shear-shear weak lensing correlations, but it is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-26 Tobias Baldauf , Robert E. Smith , Uros Seljak , Rachel Mandelbaum

Evolution in the mass function of galaxy clusters sensitively traces both the expansion history of the Universe and cosmological structure formation. Robust cluster mass determinations are a key ingredient for a reliable measurement of this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Holger Israel , Thomas Erben , Thomas H. Reiprich , Alexey Vikhlinin , Craig L. Sarazin , Peter Schneider

Context. The large-scale mass distribution around dark matter haloes hosting galaxy clusters provides sensitive cosmological information. Aims. In this work, we make use of a large photometric galaxy cluster sample, constructed from the…

We present cosmology results obtained from a blind joint analysis of the abundance, projected clustering, and weak lensing of galaxy clusters measured from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) redMaPPer cluster catalog and the Hyper-Suprime…