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Gravitational lensing of distant galaxies can be exploited to infer the convergence field as a function of angular position on the sky. The statistics of this field, much like that of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), can be studied to…

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We present refined cosmological parameter constraints derived from a cosmic shear analysis of the fourth data release of the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-1000). Our main improvements include enhanced galaxy shape measurements made possible by…

We present simulations of a cosmic shear survey and show how the survey geometry influences the accuracy of determination of cosmological parameters. We numerically calculate the full covariance matrices of the two-point statistics \xi_+,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Kilbinger

We report a detection of the coherent distortion of faint galaxies arising from gravitational lensing by foreground structures. This ``cosmic shear'' is potentially the most direct measure of the mass power spectrum, as it is unaffected by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 David Bacon , Alexandre Refregier , Richard Ellis

We present a simulation-based inference (SBI) cosmological analysis of cosmic shear two-point statistics from the fourth weak gravitational lensing data release of the ESO Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-1000). KiDS-SBI efficiently performs…

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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

Weak gravitational lensing induces flux dependent fluctuations in the observed galaxy number density distribution. This cosmic magnification (magnification bias) effect in principle enables lensing reconstruction alternative to cosmic shear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-04 Ruijie Ma , Pengjie Zhang , Yu Yu , Jian Qin

We propose a novel method to detect cosmic magnification signals by cross-correlating foreground convergence fields constructed from galaxy shear measurements with background galaxy positional distributions, namely shear-number density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-07 Xiangkun Liu , Dezi Liu , Zucheng Gao , Chengliang Wei , Guoliang Li , Liping Fu , Toshifumi Futamase , Zuhui Fan

Peak statistics in weak lensing maps access the non-Gaussian information contained in the large-scale distribution of matter in the Universe. They are therefore a promising complement to two-point and higher-order statistics to constrain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Austin Peel , Chieh-An Lin , Francois Lanusse , Adrienne Leonard , Jean-Luc Starck , Martin Kilbinger

We present COSMIC BIRTH: COSMological Initial Conditions from Bayesian Inference Reconstructions with THeoretical models: an algorithm to reconstruct the primordial and evolved cosmic density fields from galaxy surveys on the light-cone.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-23 Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Metin Ata , Sergio A. Rodriguez-Torres , Monica Hernandez-Sanchez , A. Balaguera-Antolinez , Gustavo Yepes

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…

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We study the statistics of peaks in a weak lensing reconstructed mass map of the first 450 square degrees of the Kilo Degree Survey. The map is computed with aperture masses directly applied to the shear field with an NFW-like compensated…

Within the context of upcoming full-sky lensing surveys, the edge-preserving non- linear algorithm Aski is presented. Using the framework of Maximum A Posteriori inversion, it aims at recovering the full-sky convergence map from surveys…

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These lecture notes delve into field-level inference, a framework offering a robust way to extract more information and avoid biases compared to traditional methods for cosmological data analysis. The core idea is to analyse uncompressed…

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Field-level inference has emerged as a promising framework to fully harness the cosmological information encoded in next-generation galaxy surveys. It involves performing Bayesian inference to jointly estimate the cosmological parameters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Hugo Simon , François Lanusse , Arnaud de Mattia

Cosmography has been referred to as a solution to the inverse scattering problem, which is reasonable since it allows us to calculate cosmological bounds from data samplers by performing an expansion of the cosmological observables around…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-11 Cristian Zamora Munõz , Celia Escamilla-Rivera

Increasingly large areas in cosmic shear surveys lead to a reduction of statistical errors, necessitating to control systematic errors increasingly better. One of these systematic effects was initially studied by Hartlap et al. in 2011,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Eray Genc , Peter Schneider , Sandra Unruh , Tim Schrabback

The Dark Matter present in the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe is invisible, but its presence can be inferred through the small gravitational lensing effect it has on the images of far away galaxies. By measuring this lensing effect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-18 Benjamin Remy , Francois Lanusse , Zaccharie Ramzi , Jia Liu , Niall Jeffrey , Jean-Luc Starck

We present a path-integral likelihood formalism that extends parameterized likelihood analyses to include continuous functions. The method finds the maximum likelihood point in function-space, and marginalizes over all possible functions,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 T. D. Kitching , A. N. Taylor

The interpretation of cosmological observables requires the use of increasingly sophisticated theoretical models. Since these models are becoming computationally very expensive and display non-trivial uncertainties, the use of standard…

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