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The next generation of weak gravitational lensing surveys has the potential to place stringent constraints on cosmological parameters. However, their analysis is limited by systematics such as the intrinsic alignments of galaxies, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-18 Max E. Lee , Zoltán Haiman , Shivam Pandey , Shy Genel

We present a new method to extract cosmological constraints from weak lensing (WL) peak counts, which we denote as `the hierarchical algorithm'. The idea of this method is to combine information from WL maps sequentially smoothed with a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Laura Marian , Robert E. Smith , Stefan Hilbert , Peter Schneider

We study weak gravitational lensing convergence maps produced from the MillenniumTNG (MTNG) simulations by direct projection of the mass distribution on the past backwards lightcone of a fiducial observer. We explore the lensing maps over a…

One of the primary sources of uncertainties in modeling the cosmic-shear power spectrum on small scales is the effect of baryonic physics. Accurate cosmology for Stage-IV surveys requires knowledge of the matter power spectrum deep in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 Maria G. Moreira , Felipe Andrade-Oliveira , Xiao Fang , Hung-Jin Huang , Elisabeth Krause , Vivian Miranda , Rogerio Rosenfeld , Marko Simonović

We present cosmological constraints derived from peak counts, minimum counts, and the angular power spectrum of the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam first-year (HSC Y1) weak lensing shear catalog. Weak lensing peak and minimum counts contain…

In this paper, we study the statistical properties of weak lensing peaks in light-cones generated from cosmological simulations. In order to assess the prospects of such observable as a cosmological probe, we consider simulations that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-06 Carlo Giocoli , Lauro Moscardini , Marco Baldi , Massimo Meneghetti , Robert B. Metcalf

Upcoming stage 4 surveys, such as the Simons Observatory, LSST, and Euclid, are poised to measure weak gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and galaxies with unprecedented precision. While the power spectrum is the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Jonas Frugte , P. Daniel Meerburg

NonGaussian cosmic shear statistics based on weak-lensing aperture mass ($M_{\rm ap}$) maps can outperform the classical shear two-point correlation function ($\gamma$-2PCF) in terms of cosmological constraining power. However, reaching the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Nicolas Martinet , Tiago Castro , Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Eric Jullo , Carlo Giocoli , Klaus Dolag

We explore the possibility of detecting primordial non-Gaussianity of the local type using weak lensing peak counts. We measure the peak abundance in sets of simulated weak lensing maps corresponding to three models f_NL={0, +100, -100}.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-19 Laura Marian , Stefan Hilbert , Robert E. Smith , Peter Schneider , Vincent Desjacques

Understanding and mitigating measurement systematics in weak lensing (WL) analysis requires large datasets of realistic galaxies with diverse morphologies and colors. Missions like Euclid, the Nancy Roman Space Telescope, and Vera C. Rubin…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-09 Diana Scognamiglio , Jake H. Lee , Eric Huff , Sergi R. Hildebrandt , Shoubaneh Hemmati

Massive cosmic neutrinos change the structure formation history by suppressing perturbations on small scales. Weak lensing data from galaxy surveys probe the structure evolution and thereby can be used to constrain the total mass of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-28 Zack Li , Jia Liu , José Manuel Zorrilla Matilla , William R. Coulton

We present a neural-network emulator for baryonic effects in the non-linear matter power spectrum. We calibrate this emulator using more than 50,000 measurements in a 15-dimensional parameters space, varying cosmology and baryonic physics.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-11 Giovanni Aricò , Raul E. Angulo , Sergio Contreras , Lurdes Ondaro-Mallea , Marcos Pellejero-Ibañez , Matteo Zennaro

Shear peak statistics has gained a lot of attention recently as a practical alternative to the two point statistics for constraining cosmological parameters. We perform a shear peak statistics analysis of the Dark Energy Survey (DES)…

The next generation of weak lensing surveys will measure the matter distribution of the local Universe with unprecedented precision, allowing the resolution of non-Gaussian features of the convergence field. This encourages the use of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-17 Dominik Zürcher , Janis Fluri , Virginia Ajani , Silvan Fischbacher , Alexandre Refregier , Tomasz Kacprzak

UNIONS is an ongoing deep photometric multi-band survey of the Northern sky. As part of UNIONS, CFIS provides r-band data which we use to study weak-lensing peak counts for cosmological inference. We assess systematic effects for…

The next generation of weak lensing probes can place strong constraints on cosmological parameters by measuring the mass distribution and geometry of the low redshift universe. We show that a future all-sky tomographic cosmic shear survey…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Ivan Debono

We present a full forward-modeled $w$CDM analysis of the KiDS-1000 weak lensing maps using graph-convolutional neural networks (GCNN). Utilizing the $\texttt{CosmoGrid}$, a novel massive simulation suite spanning six different cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-21 Janis Fluri , Tomasz Kacprzak , Aurelien Lucchi , Aurel Schneider , Alexandre Refregier , Thomas Hofmann

We explore the ability of weak lensing surveys to locate massive clusters. We use both analytic models of dark matter halos and mock weak lensing surveys generated from a large cosmological N-body simulation. The analytic models describe…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Takashi Hamana , Masahiro Takada , Naoki Yoshida

Measurements of the shear induced by weak gravitational lensing around galaxy cluster lines of sight are the gold standard for calibrating cluster observable-mass relations, thereby enabling a robust and precise inference of cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-26 S. Bocquet , A. Fumagalli , C. T. Davies , K. Dolag , S. Grandis , J. J. Mohr

The baryonic feedback effect is an important systematic error in the weak lensing (WL) analysis. It contributes partly to the $S_8$ tension in the literature. With the next generations of large scale structure (LSS) and CMB experiments, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-12 Yi Zheng , Pengjie Zhang