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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…

We use statistical inference theory to explore the constraints from future galaxy weak lensing (cosmic shear) surveys combined with the current CMB constraints on cosmological parameters, focusing particularly on the running of the spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mustapha Ishak , Christopher M. Hirata , Patrick McDonald , Uros Seljak

In this paper, we study the cosmological implications of the 100 square degree Weak Lensing survey (the CFHTLS-Wide, RCS, VIRMOS-DESCART and GaBoDS surveys). We combine these weak lensing data with the cosmic microwave background (CMB)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-07 Hong Li , Jie Liu , Jun-Qing Xia , Lei Sun , Zu-Hui Fan , Charling Tao , Andre Tilquin , Xinmin Zhang

We present non-linear weak lensing predictions for coupled dark energy models using the CoDECS simulations. We calculate the shear correlation function and error covariance expected for these models, for forthcoming ground-based (such as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-13 Emma Beynon , Marco Baldi , David J. Bacon , Kazuya Koyama , Cristiano Sabiu

We present a comprehensive full-sky 3-dimensional analysis of the weak-lensing fields and their corresponding power spectra. Using the formalism of spin-weight spherical harmonics and spherical Bessel functions, we relate the two-point…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. G. Castro , A. F. Heavens , T. D. Kitching

Cosmology analyses using galaxy clusters by the Dark Energy Survey have recently uncovered an issue of previously unknown selection effect affecting weak lensing mass estimates. In this letter, we use the Illustris-TNG simulation to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-26 Yuanyuan Zhang , James Annis

Weak lensing surveys provide a powerful probe of dark energy through the measurement of the mass distribution of the local Universe. A number of ground-based and space-based surveys are being planned for this purpose. Here, we study the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-22 Adam Amara , Alexandre Refregier

We measure the redshift evolution of galaxy bias for a magnitude-limited galaxy sample by combining the galaxy density maps and weak lensing shear maps for a $\sim$116 deg$^{2}$ area of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Science Verification…

We present the first constraints on cosmology from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), using weak lensing measurements from the preliminary Science Verification (SV) data. We use 139 square degrees of SV data, which is less than 3\% of the full…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-05 The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration , T. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , A. Amara , J. Annis , R. Armstrong , D. Bacon , M. Banerji , A. H. Bauer , E. Baxter , M. R. Becker , A. Benoit-Lévy , R. A. Bernstein , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , J. Blazek , C. Bonnett , S. L. Bridle , D. Brooks , C. Bruderer , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , M. T. Busha , D. Capozzi , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. Chang , J. Clampitt , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , R. Das , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , G. Efstathiou , T. F. Eifler , B. Erickson , J. Estrada , A. E. Evrard , A. Fausti Neto , E. Fernandez , D. A. Finley , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , O. Friedrich , J. Frieman , C. Gangkofner , J. Garcia-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , W. Hartley , M. Hirsch , K. Honscheid , E. M. Huff , B. Jain , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , T. Kacprzak , S. Kent , D. Kirk , E. Krause , A. Kravtsov , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , J. Kwan , O. Lahav , B. Leistedt , T. S. Li , M. Lima , H. Lin , N. MacCrann , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , R. G. McMahon , P. Melchior , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , E. Neilsen , R. C. Nichol , A. Nicola , B. Nord , R. Ogando , A. Palmese , H. V. Peiris , A. A. Plazas , A. Refregier , N. Roe , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , B. Rowe , E. S. Rykoff , C. Sabiu , I. Sadeh , M. Sako , S. Samuroff , C. Sánchez , E. Sanchez , H. Seo , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , D. Thomas , M. A. Troxel , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , R. H. Wechsler , J. Weller , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz

Future weak lensing surveys will directly probe the density fluctuation in the universe. Recent studies have shown how the statistics of the weak lensing convergence field is related to the statistics of collapsed objects. Extending earlier…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dipak Munshi

This paper details the modeling pipeline and validates the baseline analysis choices of the DES Year 3 joint analysis of galaxy clustering and weak lensing (a so-called "3$\times$2pt" analysis). These analysis choices include the specific…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-31 E. Krause , X. Fang , S. Pandey , L. F. Secco , O. Alves , H. Huang , J. Blazek , J. Prat , J. Zuntz , T. F. Eifler , N. MacCrann , J. DeRose , M. Crocce , A. Porredon , B. Jain , M. A. Troxel , S. Dodelson , D. Huterer , A. R. Liddle , C. D. Leonard , A. Amon , A. Chen , J. Elvin-Poole , A. Ferté , J. Muir , Y. Park , S. Samuroff , A. Brandao-Souza , N. Weaverdyck , G. Zacharegkas , R. Rosenfeld , A. Campos , P. Chintalapati , A. Choi , E. Di Valentino , C. Doux , K. Herner , P. Lemos , J. Mena-Fernández , Y. Omori , M. Paterno , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , P. Rogozenski , R. P. Rollins , A. Troja , I. Tutusaus , R. H. Wechsler , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Annis , D. Bacon , E. Baxter , K. Bechtol , G. M. Bernstein , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , S. Everett , A. E. Evrard , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , E. M. Huff , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , J. Myles , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , D. Petravick , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , T. N. Varga , J. Weller

We have measured the correlation between the lensing signal induced by (dark) matter and number counts of galaxies on scales ranging from 0.15-3.0 h_{50}^{-1} Mpc (which correspond to aperture radii of 1-15 arcminutes). This provides a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Henk Hoekstra , Howard K. C. Yee , Michael D. Gladders

Weak lensing experiments are a powerful probe of cosmology through their measurement of the mass distribution of the universe. A challenge for this technique is to control systematic errors that occur when measuring the shapes of distant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Alexandre Refregier , Tomasz Kacprzak , Adam Amara , Sarah Bridle , Barnaby Rowe

The first half of this paper explores the origin of systematic biases in the measurement of weak gravitational lensing. Compared to previous work, we expand the investigation of PSF instability and fold in for the first time the effects of…

We study the ability of future weak lensing (WL) surveys to constrain primordial non-Gaussianity of the local type. We use a large ensemble of simulated WL maps with survey specifications relevant to Euclid and LSST. The simulations assume…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-05 Stefan Hilbert , Laura Marian , Robert E. Smith , Vincent Desjacques

We study the power of upcoming weak lensing surveys to probe dark energy. Dark energy modifies the distance-redshift relation as well as the matter power spectrum, both of which affect the weak lensing convergence power spectrum. Some…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Dragan Huterer

We present cosmological parameter constraints from a blinded joint analysis of galaxy-galaxy weak lensing, $\Delta\!\Sigma(R)$, and projected correlation function, $w_\mathrm{p}(R)$, measured from the first-year HSC (HSC-Y1) data and SDSS…

We have analysed ~24 square degrees of R_C-band imaging data from the Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS), and measured the excess correlations between galaxy ellipticities on scales ranging from 1 to 30 arcminutes. We have used data from two…