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Metacalibration is a state-of-the-art technique for measuring weak gravitational lensing shear from well-sampled galaxy images. We investigate the accuracy of shear measured with metacalibration from fitting elliptical Gaussians to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-03 Arun Kannawadi , Erik Rosenberg , Henk Hoekstra

Metacalibration is a recently introduced method to accurately measure weak gravitational lensing shear using only the available imaging data, without need for prior information about galaxy properties or calibration from simulations. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 Erin S. Sheldon , Eric M. Huff

Weak gravitational lensing has the potential to constrain cosmological parameters to high precision. However, as shown by the Shear TEsting Programmes (STEP) and GRavitational lEnsing Accuracy Testing (GREAT) Challenges, measuring galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Tomasz Kacprzak , Joe Zuntz , Barnaby Rowe , Sarah Bridle , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara , Lisa Voigt , Michael Hirsch

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) mission is expected to launch in the mid-2020s. Its weak lensing program is designed to enable unprecedented systematics control in photometric measurements, including shear recovery,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-07 M. A. Troxel , H. Long , C. M. Hirata , A. Choi , M. Jarvis , R. Mandelbaum , K. Wang , M. Yamamoto , S. Hemmati , P. Capak

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch in 2026, will bring unprecedented precision to measurements of weak gravitational lensing. Because weak lensing is an inherently small signal, it is imperative to minimize systematic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Katherine Laliotis , Emily Macbeth , Christopher M. Hirata , Kaili Cao , Masaya Yamamoto , Michael Troxel

The High Latitude Imaging Survey (HLIS) of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide powerful tests of cosmological models through sensitive measurements of cosmic shear, galaxy-galaxy lensing (GGL), and galaxy clustering. As…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-05 Kaili Cao , David H. Weinberg , Vivian Miranda , Nihar Dalal , Tim Eifler , Jiachuan Xu , Haley Bowden

One of the primary limiting sources of systematic uncertainty in forthcoming weak lensing measurements is systematic uncertainty in the quantitative relationship between the distortions due to gravitational lensing and the measurable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-10 Eric Huff , Rachel Mandelbaum

We describe and test the pipeline used to measure the weak lensing shear signal from the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS). It includes a novel method of `self-calibration' that partially corrects for the effect of noise bias. We also discuss the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-12 Ian Fenech Conti , Ricardo Herbonnet , Henk Hoekstra , Julian Merten , Lance Miller , Massimo Viola

Metacalibration is a new technique for measuring weak gravitational lensing shear that is unbiased for isolated galaxy images. In this work we test metacalibration with overlapping, or ``blended'' galaxy images. Using standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Erin S. Sheldon , Matthew R. Becker , Niall MacCrann , Michael Jarvis

To obtain an accurate cosmological inference from upcoming weak lensing surveys such as the one conducted by Euclid, the shear measurement requires calibration using galaxy image simulations. We study the efficiency of different noise…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-17 H. Jansen , M. Tewes , T. Schrabback , N. Aghanim , A. Amara , S. Andreon , N. Auricchio , M. Baldi , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , J. Brinchmann , S. Camera , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , V. F. Cardone , J. Carretero , S. Casas , M. Castellano , S. Cavuoti , A. Cimatti , G. Congedo , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , L. Corcione , F. Courbin , H. M. Courtois , A. Da Silva , H. Degaudenzi , J. Dinis , F. Dubath , X. Dupac , M. Farina , S. Farrens , S. Ferriol , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , M. Fumana , S. Galeotta , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , S. V. H. Haugan , H. Hoekstra , W. Holmes , F. Hormuth , A. Hornstrup , P. Hudelot , K. Jahnke , B. Joachimi , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , M. Kilbinger , T. Kitching , B. Kubik , H. Kurki-Suonio , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , V. Lindholm , I. Lloro , E. Maiorano , O. Mansutti , O. Marggraf , K. Markovic , N. Martinet , F. Marulli , R. Massey , E. Medinaceli , S. Mei , M. Melchior , Y. Mellier , M. Meneghetti , E. Merlin , G. Meylan , L. Miller , M. Moresco , L. Moscardini , E. Munari , R. Nakajima , S. -M. Niemi , C. Padilla , S. Paltani , F. Pasian , K. Pedersen , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , F. Raison , A. Renzi , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , E. Rossetti , R. Saglia , D. Sapone , B. Sartoris , P. Schneider , A. Secroun , G. Seidel , S. Serrano , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , J. Skottfelt , L. Stanco , P. Tallada-Crespí , I. Tereno , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , I. Tutusaus , E. A. Valentijn , L. Valenziano , T. Vassallo , A. Veropalumbo , Y. Wang , J. Weller , G. Zamorani , J. Zoubian , C. Colodro-Conde , V. Scottez

In order to reach the required performance of Stage-III and IV weak lensing surveys, cosmic shear measurements have to rely on external simulations to calibrate residual biases. Over the years, several techniques have been developed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-11 G. Congedo , A. N. Taylor

We present results from a set of simulations designed to constrain the weak lensing shear calibration for the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) survey. These simulations include HSC observing conditions and galaxy images from the Hubble Space…

Weak Gravitational Lensing is a powerful probe of the dark sector of the Universe. One of the main challenges for this technique is the treatment of systematics in the measurement of cosmic shear from galaxy shapes. In an earlier work,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 Claudio Bruderer , Andrina Nicola , Adam Amara , Alexandre Refregier , Jörg Herbel , Tomasz Kacprzak

We introduce deep-field metacalibration, a new technique that reduces the pixel noise in metacalibration estimators of weak lensing shear signals by using a deeper imaging survey for calibration. In standard metacalibration, when estimating…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-19 Zhuoqi Zhang , Matthew R. Becker , Erin S. Sheldon

Weak lensing by large-scale structure is a powerful technique to probe the dark components of the universe. To understand the measurement process of weak lensing and the associated systematic effects, image simulations are becoming…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Claudio Bruderer , Chihway Chang , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara , Joel Berge , Lukas Gamper

The next generation of imaging surveys, including the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), Euclid, and the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, will place unprecedented constraints on cosmology using weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-08 Andy Park , Xiangchong Li , Rachel Mandelbaum , Matthew Becker

Noise bias is a significant source of systematic error in weak gravitational lensing measurements that must be corrected to satisfy the stringent standards of modern imaging surveys in the era of precision cosmology. This paper reviews the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-09 Xiangchong Li , Rachel Mandelbaum , The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

The upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will carry out a wide-area survey in the near infrared. A key science objective is the measurement of cosmic structure via weak gravitational lensing. Roman data will be undersampled, which…

WL measurements have well-known shear estimation biases, which can be partially corrected for with the use of image simulations. We present an analysis of simulated images that mimic HST/ACS observations of high-redshift galaxy clusters,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 B. Hernandez-Martin , T. Schrabback , H. Hoekstra , N. Martinet , J. Hlavacek-Larrondo , L. E. Bleem , M. D. Gladders , B. Stalder , A. A. Stark , M. Bayliss

We consider the application of a ubercalibration-like relative flux calibration to the grism observations of the Roman High Latitude Wide Area Survey (HLWAS). We propose a simplified model of the calibration with an independent flat field…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-27 Alan B. H. Nguyen , Gregory Walth , Ashley J. Ross , James W. Colbert , Jaide Swanson , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Yun Wang
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