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Strong gravitational lensing observations can provide extremely valuable information on the structure of galaxies, but their interpretation is made difficult by selection effects, which, if not accounted for, introduce a bias between the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-23 Alessandro Sonnenfeld

Weak gravitational lensing, or weak lensing, is one of the most powerful probes for dark matter and dark energy science, although it faces increasing challenges in controlling systematic uncertainties as \edit{the statistical errors become…

We present cosmological constraints from the analysis of angular power spectra of cosmic shear maps based on data from the first three years of observations by the Dark Energy Survey (DES Y3). Our measurements are based on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 C. Doux , B. Jain , D. Zeurcher , J. Lee , X. Fang , R. Rosenfeld , A. Amon , H. Camacho , A. Choi , L. F. Secco , J. Blazek , C. Chang , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , N. Jeffrey , M. Raveri , S. Samuroff , A. Alarcon , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , E. Baxter , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , R. Cawthon , R. Chen , J. Cordero , M. Crocce , C. Davis , J. DeRose , S. Dodelson , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , T. F. Eifler , F. Elsner , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , A. Ferté , P. Fosalba , O. Friedrich , G. Giannini , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , H. Huang , E. M. Huff , D. Huterer , M. Jarvis , E. Krause , N. Kuropatkin , P. -F. Leget , P. Lemos , A. R. Liddle , N. MacCrann , J. McCullough , J. Muir , J. Myles , A. Navarro-Alsina , S. Pandey , Y. Park , A. Porredon , J. Prat , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , R. P. Rollins , A. Roodman , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , C. Sánchez , J. Sanchez , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , A. Troja , M. A. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , T. N. Varga , N. Weaverdyck , R. H. Wechsler , B. Yanny , B. Yin , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. Carretero , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , A. G. Kim , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , J. L. Marshall , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , R. Morgan , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. Pieres , K. Reil , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , S. Serrano , M. Smith , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , J. Weller

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…

We present a tomographic cosmic shear study from the Deep Lens Survey (DLS), which, providing a limiting magnitude r_{lim}~27 (5 sigma), is designed as a pre-cursor Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) survey with an emphasis on depth.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 M. James Jee , J. Anthony Tyson , Stefan Hilbert , Michael D. Schneider , Samuel Schmidt , David Wittman

Context. Strong lenses are a biased subset of the general population of galaxies. Aims. The goal of this work is to quantify how lens galaxies and lensed sources differ from their parent distribution, namely the strong lensing bias.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-29 Alessandro Sonnenfeld , Shun-Sheng Li , Giulia Despali , Raphael Gavazzi , Anowar J. Shajib , Edward N. Taylor

We baseline with current cosmological observations to forecast the power of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) in two ways: 1. the gain in constraining power of parameter combinations in the standard $\Lambda$CDM model, and 2.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Samuel Goldstein , Minsu Park , Marco Raveri , Bhuvnesh Jain , Lado Samushia

We investigate the accuracy of weak lensing simulations by comparing the results of five independently developed lensing simulation codes run on the same input $N$-body simulation. Our comparison focuses on the lensing convergence maps…

Residual errors in shear measurements, after corrections for instrument systematics and atmospheric effects, can impact cosmological parameters derived from weak lensing observations. Here we combine convergence maps from our suite of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-06 Andrea Petri , Morgan May , Zoltan Haiman , Jan M. Kratochvil

We present cosmological constraints from the analysis of two-point correlation functions between galaxy positions and galaxy lensing measured in Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 3 data and measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , A. Alarcon , O. Alves , A. Amon , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Annis , B. Ansarinejad , S. Avila , D. Bacon , E. J. Baxter , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , B. A. Benson , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , J. Blazek , L. E. Bleem , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , H. Camacho , A. Campos , J. E. Carlstrom , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , C. L. Chang , R. Chen , A. Choi , R. Chown , C. Conselice , J. Cordero , M. Costanzi , T. Crawford , A. T. Crites , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , C. Davis , T. M. Davis , T. de Haan , J. De Vicente , J. DeRose , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , M. A. Dobbs , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , T. F. Eifler , F. Elsner , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , W. Everett , X. Fang , I. Ferrero , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , O. Friedrich , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , M. Gatti , E. M. George , T. Giannantonio , G. Giannini , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , N. W. Halverson , I. Harrison , K. Herner , S. R. Hinton , G. P. Holder , D. L. Hollowood , W. L. Holzapfel , K. Honscheid , J. D. Hrubes , H. Huang , E. M. Huff , D. Huterer , B. Jain , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , T. Jeltema , S. Kent , L. Knox , A. Kovacs , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , A. T. Lee , P. -F. Leget , P. Lemos , A. R. Liddle , C. Lidman , D. Luong-Van , J. J. McMahon , N. MacCrann , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , J. McCullough , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , S. S. Meyer , R. Miquel , L. Mocanu , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , J. Muir , J. Myles , T. Natoli , A. Navarro-Alsina , R. C. Nichol , Y. Omori , S. Padin , S. Pandey , Y. Park , F. Paz-Chinchón , M. E. S. Pereira , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Porredon , J. Prat , C. Pryke , M. Raveri , C. L. Reichardt , R. P. Rollins , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , J. E. Ruhl , E. S. Rykoff , C. Sánchez , E. Sanchez , J. Sanchez , K. K. Schaffer , L. F. Secco , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , E. Shirokoff , M. Smith , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , C. To , M. A. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , T. N. Varga , J. D. Vieira , N. Weaverdyck , R. H. Wechsler , J. Weller , R. Williamson , W. L. K. Wu , B. Yanny , B. Yin , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz

Weak lensing is emerging as a powerful observational tool to constrain cosmological models, but is at present limited by an incomplete understanding of many sources of systematic error. Many of these errors are multiplicative and depend on…

Weak gravitational lensing surveys measure the distortion of the image of distant sources due to the deflections of light rays by the fluctuations of the gravitational potential along the line of sight. Since they probe the non-linear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dipak Munshi , Patrick Valageas

Strong gravitational lensing has significantly advanced the study of high-redshift galaxies, but the differential magnification effect inevitably introduces biases in the spectral analysis of source galaxies. This work investigates these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-20 Wenshuo Xu , Dandan Xu , Xinzhong Er , Junqiang Ge

The main goal of this work, the second in a three-paper series, is to test the impact of a methodological improvement in measuring the magnification bias signal on a sample of submillimeter galaxies and its implications for constraining…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-09 Marcos M. Cueli , Joaquín González-Nuevo , Laura Bonavera , Andrea Lapi , David Crespo , José Manuel Casas

The statistical power of weak lensing measurements is principally driven by the number of high redshift galaxies whose shapes are resolved. Conventional wisdom and physical intuition suggest this is optimised by deep imaging at long (red or…

We compute statistical properties of weak gravitational lensing by large-scale structure in three Cold Dark Matter models. We use a P$^3$M $N$-body code to simulate the formation and evolution of large-scale structure in the universe. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Takashi Hamana , Hugo Martel , Toshifumi Futamase

We derive constraints on the matter density \Om and the amplitude of matter clustering \sig8 from measurements of large scale weak lensing (projected separation R=5-30\hmpc) by clusters in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey MaxBCG catalog. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-11 Ying Zu , David H. Weinberg , Eduardo Rozo , Erin S. Sheldon , Jeremy L. Tinker , Matthew R. Becker

We investigate the elastic scattering cross section between dark matter and protons using the DES Year 3 weak lensing data. This scattering induces a dark acoustic oscillation structure in the matter power spectra. To address non-linear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-07 Chi Zhang , Lei Zu , Hou-Zun Chen , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Yi-Zhong Fan

We have analysed 53 square degrees of imaging data from the Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS), and measured the excess correlations in the shapes of galaxies on scales out to ~1.5 degrees. We separate the signal into an ``E''- (lensing) and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Henk Hoekstra , Howard Yee , Mike Gladders