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We present cosmological constraints from Dark Energy Survey Year 3 (DES Y3) weak lensing data using persistent homology, a topological data analysis technique that tracks how features like clusters and voids evolve across density…

We present cosmological constraints from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) using a combined analysis of angular clustering of red galaxies and their cross-correlation with weak gravitational lensing of background galaxies. We use a 139 square…

As weak lensing surveys go deeper, there is an increasing need for reliable characterization of non-Gaussian structures at small angular scales. Here we present the first cosmological constraints with weak lensing scattering transform, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-12 Sihao Cheng , Gabriela A. Marques , Daniela Grandón , Leander Thiele , Masato Shirasaki , Brice Ménard , Jia Liu

Cosmic shear constrains cosmology by exploiting the apparent alignments of pairs of galaxies due to gravitational lensing by intervening mass clumps. However galaxies may become (intrinsically) aligned with each other, and with nearby mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Sarah Bridle , Lindsay King

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

Spectroscopic redshift surveys offer great prospects for constraining the dark sector in cosmology. Future surveys will however be both deep and wide and will thus require an analysis in 3-dimensional spherical geometry. We review and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Andrina Nicola , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara , Aseem Paranjape

We introduce a framework for the enhanced estimation of photometric redshifts using Self-Organising Maps (SOMs). Our method projects galaxy Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs) onto a two-dimensional map, identifying regions that are…

We present a novel method to compress galaxy clustering three-point statistics and apply it to redshift space galaxy bispectrum monopole measurements from BOSS DR12 CMASS data considering a $k$-space range of $0.03-0.12\,h/\mathrm{Mpc}$.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-07 Davide Gualdi , Héctor Gil-Marín , Marc Manera , Benjamin Joachimi , Ofer Lahav

Astrometric calibration of images with a small field of view is often inferior to the internal accuracy of the source detections due to the small number of accessible guide stars. One important experiment with such challenges is the Hubble…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Fan Tian , Tamás Budavári , Amitabh Basu , Stephen H. Lubow , Richard L. White

This work emphasizes that heterogeneity, diversity, discontinuity, and discreteness in data is to be exploited in classification and regression problems. A global a priori model may not be desirable. For data analytics in cosmology, this is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-10 Fionn Murtagh

The estimation and utilization of photometric redshift probability density functions (photo-$z$ PDFs) has become increasingly important over the last few years and currently there exist a wide variety of algorithms to compute photo-$z$'s,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-05 M. Carrasco Kind , R. J. Brunner

In this paper, we motivate the use of galaxy clustering measurements using photometric redshift information, including a contribution from flux magnification, as a probe of cosmology. We present cosmological forecasts when clustering data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Christopher Duncan , Benjamin Joachimi , Alan Heavens , Catherine Heymans , Hendrik Hildebrandt

Future data sets will enable cross-correlations between redshift space distortions (RSD) and weak lensing (WL). While photometric lensing and clustering cross-correlations have provided some of the tightest cosmological constraints to date,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Peter L. Taylor , Katarina Markovič , Alkistis Pourtsidou , Eric Huff

Next-generation surveys like the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will generate orders of magnitude more discoveries of transients and variable stars than previous surveys. To prepare for this data…

We describe the derivation and validation of redshift distribution estimates and their uncertainties for the galaxies used as weak lensing sources in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 1 cosmological analyses. The Bayesian Photometric…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-15 B. Hoyle , D. Gruen , G. M. Bernstein , M. M. Rau , J. De Vicente , W. G. Hartley , E. Gaztanaga , J. DeRose , M. A. Troxel , C. Davis , A. Alarcon , N. MacCrann , J. Prat , C. Sánchez , E. Sheldon , R. H. Wechsler , J. Asorey , M. R. Becker , C. Bonnett , A. Carnero Rosell , D. Carollo , M. Carrasco Kind , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , M. Childress , T. M. Davis , A. Drlica-Wagner , M. Gatti , K. Glazebrook , J. Gschwend , S. R. Hinton , J. K. Hoormann , A. G. Kim , A. King , K. Kuehn , G. Lewis , C. Lidman , H. Lin , E. Macaulay , M. A. G. Maia , P. Martini , D. Mudd , A. Möller , R. C. Nichol , R. L. C. Ogando , R. P. Rollins , A. Roodman , A. J. Ross , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , S. Samuroff , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , R. Sharp , N. E. Sommer , B. E. Tucker , S. A. Uddin , T. N. Varga , P. Vielzeuf , F. Yuan , B. Zhang , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , J. Annis , K. Bechtol , A. Benoit-Lévy , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , M. T. Busha , D. Capozzi , J. Carretero , M. Crocce , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , T. F. Eifler , J. Estrada , A. E. Evrard , E. Fernandez , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , D. A. Goldstein , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , T. Jeltema , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , D. Kirk , E. Krause , S. Kuhlmann , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , M. Lima , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , B. Nord , C. R. O'Neill , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , M. Smith , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , J. Weller , W. Wester , R. C. Wolf , B. Yanny , J. Zuntz

Recently, a number of methods have emerged to detect galaxy clusters solely through their weak lensing signal. Using the recently-introduced wavelet multi-scale detection method, we focus here on the potential for the use of tomographic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 L. Chappuis , S. Pires , G. W. Pratt , G. Leroy , A. Daurelle , C. Giocoli , C. Carbone

We present the photometric calibration of the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS) and Mayall z-band Legacy Survey (MzLS), which are two of the three wide-field optical legacy imaging surveys to provide the baseline targeting data for the Dark…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Zhimin Zhou , Xu Zhou , Hu Zou , Tianmeng Zhang , Jundan Nie , Xiyan Peng , Xiaohui Fan , Linhua Jiang , Ian McGreer , Jinyi Yang , Arjun Dey , Jun Ma , Jiali Wang , Xu Kong , Qirong Yuan , Hong Wu , David Schlegel

Development of the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) includes a series of Data Challenges (DC) arranged by various LSST Scientific Collaborations (SC) that are taking place during the projects preoperational phase.…

Accurate photometric redshift calibration is central to the robustness of all cosmology constraints from cosmic shear surveys. Analyses of the KiDS re-weighted training samples from all overlapping spectroscopic surveys to provide a direct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Angus H. Wright , Hendrik Hildebrandt , Jan Luca van den Busch , Catherine Heymans

We test the cosmological implications of studying galaxy clustering using a tomographic approach, by computing the galaxy two-point angular correlation function $\omega(\theta)$ in thin redshift shells using a spectroscopic-redshift galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Salvador Salazar-Albornoz , Ariel G. Sánchez , Nelson D. Padilla , Carlton M. Baugh