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We propose a new technique for weak gravitational lensing in the radio band making use of polarization information. Since the orientation of a galaxy's polarized emission is both unaffected by lensing and is related to the galaxy's…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Michael L. Brown , Richard A. Battye

Weak gravitational lensing has proven to be a powerful tool to map directly the distribution of dark matter in the Universe. The technique, currently used, relies on the accurate measurement of the gravitational shear that corresponds to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 S. Pires , A. Amara

We apply a mass reconstruction technique to simulated large-scale structure gravitational distortion maps, from 2.5' to 10 degree scales, for different cosmological scenarii. The projected mass is reconstructed using a non-parametric least…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Van Waerbeke , F. Bernardeau , Y. Mellier

We detect the weak gravitational lensing distortion of 450,000 background galaxies (20<R<23) by 790 foreground galaxies (R<18) selected from the Las Campanas Redshift Survey (LCRS). This is the first detection of weak lensing by field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. R. Smith , G. M. Bernstein , P. Fischer , R. M. Jarvis

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

We explore the complementarity of weak lensing and galaxy peculiar velocity measurements to better constrain modifications to General Relativity. We find no evidence for deviations from GR on cosmological scales from a combination of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-26 Yong-Seon Song , Gong-Bo Zhao , David Bacon , Kazuya Koyama , Robert C Nichol , Levon Pogosian

Weak gravitational lensing observations are a key science driver for the NASA Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST). To validate the performance of the WFIRST infrared detectors, we have performed a laboratory emulation of weak…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Suresh Seshadri , Charles Shapiro , Timothy Goodsall , Jason Fucik , Christopher M. Hirata , Jason Rhodes , Barnaby Rowe , Roger Smith

We investigate the weak lensing shear due to dark matter galaxy halos whose mass distributions, as projected on the sky, are nearly elliptical. The shear pattern due to these halos is anisotropic about the lens centers and we quantify the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. G. Brainerd , C. O. Wright

Weak gravitational lensing has become a widely used effect to characterise the dark-matter distribution on large scales in the Universe by measuring galaxy ellipticities and their statistical correlations. We present the first weak…

We present the first detection of weak gravitational shear at infrared wavelengths, using observations of the lensing cluster Abell 1689, taken with the SofI camera on the ESO-NTT telescope. The imprint of cluster lenses on the shapes of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. J. King , D. I. Clowe , C. Lidman , P. Schneider , T. Erben , J. -P. Kneib , G. Meylan

Upcoming imaging surveys will use weak gravitational lensing to study the large-scale structure of the Universe, demanding sub-percent accuracy for precise cosmic shear measurements. We present a new differentiable implementation of our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-25 Xiangchong Li , Rachel Mandelbaum , Mike Jarvis , Yin Li , Andy Park , Tianqing Zhang

We estimate the bias on weak lensing mass measurements of shear-selected galaxy cluster samples. The mass bias is expected to be significant because constructions of cluster samples from peaks in weak lensing mass maps and measurements of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-25 Kai-Feng Chen , Masamune Oguri , Yen-Ting Lin , Satoshi Miyazaki

The weak gravitational lensing distortion of distant galaxy images (defined as sources) probes the projected large-scale matter distribution in the Universe. To improve quality in the 3D mass mapping using 3D-lensing, we combine the lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Patrick Simon

In weak gravitational lensing, weighted quadrupole moments of the brightness profile in galaxy images are a common way to estimate gravitational shear. We employ general adaptive moments (GLAM) to study causes of shear bias on a fundamental…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Patrick Simon , Peter Schneider

Sub-percent level accuracy in shear measurement is required by the Stage-IV weak lensing surveys. One important challenge is about suppressing the shear bias on source images of low signal-to-noise ratios (SNR$\lesssim10$). Previously, it…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-05 HeKun Li , Jun Zhang

As the volume and quality of modern galaxy surveys increase, so does the difficulty of measuring the cosmological signal imprinted in galaxy shapes. Weak gravitational lensing sourced by the most massive structures in the Universe generates…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-04 Benjamin Remy , Francois Lanusse , Jean-Luc Starck

Weak gravitational lensing is one of the most important probes of the nature of dark matter and dark energy. In order to extract cosmological information from next-generation weak lensing surveys (e.g., Euclid, Roman, LSST, and CSST) as…

Next-generation optical imaging surveys will revolutionise the observations of weak gravitational lensing by galaxy clusters and provide stringent constraints on growth of structure and cosmic acceleration. In these experiments, accurate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-17 Hao-Yi Wu , David H. Weinberg , Andrés N. Salcedo , Benjamin D. Wibking , Ying Zu

We present a weak lensing analysis of the 3 GHz VLA radio survey of the COSMOS field, which we correlate with overlapping HST-ACS optical observations using both intrinsic galaxy shape and cosmic shear correlation statistics. After…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-27 Tom Hillier , Michael L. Brown , Ian Harrison , Lee Whittaker

We present a weak gravitational lensing analysis of 815 square degree of $i$-band imaging from the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-$i$-800). In contrast to the deep $r$-band observations, which take priority during excellent seeing conditions and…