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We present weak-lensing mass measurements of 50 X-ray luminous galaxy clusters at $0.15\le z\le0.3$, based on uniform high quality observations with Suprime-Cam mounted on the 8.2-m Subaru telescope. We pay close attention to possible…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 Nobuhiro Okabe , Graham P. Smith

We investigate the cosmological constraining power of combined weak galaxy lensing and galaxy clustering probes, i.e. $3\times2$-point analyses, assuming flexible models for redshift uncertainty, and Lagrangian perturbation theory and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 Joseph DeRose , Noah Weaverdyck , Martin White , Shi-Fan Chen , David Schlegel , Anže Slosar

The clustering of galaxy clusters is a powerful cosmological tool, which can help to break degeneracies between parameters when combined with other cosmological observables. We aim to demonstrate its potential in constraining cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-16 Alessandra Fumagalli , Matteo Costanzi , Alexandro Saro , Tiago Castro , Stefano Borgani

An excess up-scattering mass bias on a weak lensing cluster mass estimate is a statistical bias that an observed weak lensing mass ($M_{\rm obs}$) of a cluster of galaxies is, in a statistical sense, larger than its true mass ($M_{\rm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-09 Takashi Hamana

Weak lensing is an important technique to determine the masses of galaxy groups. However, the distortion imprint on the shape of the background galaxies is affected by all the mass content along the line-of-sight. Using COSMOS shear mock…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 P. F. Spinelli , S. Seitz , M. Lerchster , F. Brimioulle , A. Finoguenov

We study the impact of instrumental systematics on the variance, skewness, and kurtosis of redshifted 21 cm intensity fluctuation observations from the Epoch of Reionization. We simulate realistic 21 cm observations based on the Murchison…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-20 Piyanat Kittiwisit , Judd D. Bowman , Daniel C. Jacobs , Nithyanandan Thyagarajan , Adam P. Beardsley

We report weak-lensing masses for 51 of the most X-ray luminous galaxy clusters known. This cluster sample, introduced earlier in this series of papers, spans redshifts 0.15 < z_cl < 0.7, and is well suited to calibrate mass proxies for…

Parametric modeling of galaxy cluster density profiles from weak lensing observations leads to a mass bias, whose detailed understanding is critical in deriving accurate mass-observable relations for constraining cosmological models.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Martin W. Sommer , Tim Schrabback , Douglas E. Applegate , Stefan Hilbert , Behzad Ansarinejad , Benjamin Floyd , Sebastian Grandis

Lensing magnification and stacked shear measurements of galaxy clusters rely on measuring the density of background galaxies behind the clusters. The most common ways of measuring this quantity ignore the fact that some fraction of the sky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Melanie Simet , Rachel Mandelbaum

Weak gravitational lensing causes subtle changes in the apparent shapes of galaxies due to the bending of light by the gravity of foreground masses. By measuring the shapes of large numbers of galaxies (millions in recent surveys, up to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-08 Yuki Okura , Andrea Petri , Morgan May , Andrés A. Plazas , Toru Tamagawa

We develop an extension of \textit{the Halo Model} that describes analytically the corrections to the matter power spectrum due to the physics of baryons. We extend these corrections to the weak-lensing shear angular power spectrum. Within…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-28 Irshad Mohammed , Davide Martizzi , Romain Teyssier , Adam Amara

We explore the cosmological constraints from cosmic shear using a new way of modelling the non-linear matter correlation functions. The new formalism extends the method of Angulo & White (2010), which manipulates outputs of $N$-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Raul E. Angulo , Stefan Hilbert

We study how joint shear and magnification measurements improve the statistical precision of weak lensing mass calibration experiments, relative to standard shear-only analysis. For our magnification measurements, we consider not only the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-30 Eduardo Rozo , Fabian Schmidt

This is the third paper on the improvements of systematic errors in our weak lensing analysis using an elliptical weight function, called E-HOLICs. In the previous papers we have succeeded in avoiding error which depends on ellipticity of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Yuki Okura , Toshifumi Futamase

We review the effect of the commonly-used Limber and flat-sky approximations on the calculation of shear power spectra and correlation functions for galaxy weak lensing. These approximations are accurate at small scales, but it has been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-17 Pablo Lemos , Anthony Challinor , George Efstathiou

We present constraints on the mean matter density, Omega_m, the normalization of the density fluctuation power spectrum, sigma_8, and the dark-energy equation-of-state parameter, w, obtained from measurements of the X-ray luminosity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-03 A. Mantz , S. W. Allen , H. Ebeling , D. Rapetti

The current methods available to estimate gravitational shear from astronomical images of galaxies introduce systematic errors which can affect the accuracy of weak lensing cosmological constraints. We study the impact of KSB shape…