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We present a set of predictions for weak lensing correlation functions in the context of modified gravity models, including a prescription for the impact of the nonlinear power spectrum regime in these models. We consider the DGP and f(R)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Emma Beynon , David J. Bacon , Kazuya Koyama

Establishing dense correspondences across image pairs is essential for tasks such as shape reconstruction and robot manipulation. In the challenging setting of matching across different categories, the function of an object, i.e., the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Stefan Stojanov , Linan Zhao , Yunzhi Zhang , Daniel L. K. Yamins , Jiajun Wu

Weak gravitational lensing of background galaxies offers an excellent opportunity to study the intervening distribution of matter. While much attention to date has focused on the two-point function of the cosmic shear, the three-point…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Scott Dodelson , Pengjie Zhang

We present the gauge-invariant formalism of cosmological weak lensing, accounting for all the relativistic effects due to the scalar, vector, and tensor perturbations at the linear order. While the light propagation is fully described by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 Jaiyul Yoo , Nastassia Grimm , Ermis Mitsou , Adam Amara , Alexandre Refregier

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 derive an exact expression for the correlation function in redshift shells including all the relativistic contributions. This expression, which does not rely on the distant-observer or flat-sky approximation, is valid at all scales and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Vittorio Tansella , Camille Bonvin , Ruth Durrer , Basundhara Ghosh , Elena Sellentin

Accurate estimates of Instrument Spectral Response Functions (ISRFs) are crucial in order to have a good characterization of high resolution spectrometers. Spectrometers are composed of different optical elements that can induce errors in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Jihanne El Haouari , Jean-Michel Gaucel , Christelle Pittet , Jean-Yves Tourneret , Herwig Wendt

Recent studies have demonstrated that {\em secondary} non-Gaussianity induced by gravity will be detected with a high signal-to-noise (S/N) by future and even by on-going weak lensing surveys. One way to characterise such non-Gaussianity is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-05 D. Munshi , T. Namikawa , T. D. Kitching , J. D. McEwen , R. Takahashi , F. R. Bouchet , A. Taruya , B. Bose

We propose a nonlinear function-on-function regression model where both the covariate and the response are random functions. The nonlinear regression is carried out in two steps: we first construct Hilbert spaces to accommodate the…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-07-19 Peijun Sang , Bing Li

In the framework of the signal processing approach to single-atom resonance fluorescence with spectral resolution, we diagrammatically derive an analytical formula for arbitrary-order spectral correlation functions of the scattered fields…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Vyacheslav N. Shatokhin , Sergei Ya. Kilin

We re-examine a genuine power of weak lensing bispectrum tomography for constraining cosmological parameters, when combined with the power spectrum tomography, based on the Fisher information matrix formalism. To account for the full…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-21 Issha Kayo , Masahiro Takada

I propose an analysis method, based on spin-spherical harmonics and spherical Bessel functions, for large-scale weak lensing surveys which have source distance information through photometric redshifts. I show that the distance information…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alan Heavens

We present a new perspective on gravitational lensing. We describe a new extension of the weak lensing formalism capable of describing strongly lensed images. By integrating the non-linear geodesic deviation equation, the amplification…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 Chris Clarkson

The three-dimensional galaxy power spectrum is a powerful probe of primordial non-Gaussianity and additional general relativistic effects, which become important on large scales. At the same time, wide-angle (WA) effects due to differing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-29 Robin Y. Wen , Henry S. Grasshorn Gebhardt , Chen Heinrich , Olivier Doré

We develop a method for estimating the shear power spectra from weak lensing observations and test it on simulated data. Our method describes the shear field in terms of angular power spectra and cross correlation of the two shear modes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Wayne Hu , Martin White

The random feature method (RFM) has demonstrated great potential in bridging traditional numerical methods and machine learning techniques for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). It retains the advantages of mesh-free approaches…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Mikhail Kuvakin , Zijian Mei , Jingrun Chen

We have developed a new three-dimensional algorithm, based on the standard P$^3$M method, for computing deflections due to weak gravitational lensing. We compare the results of this method with those of the two-dimensional planar approach,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. M. P. Couchman , Andrew J. Barber , Peter A. Thomas

Many super-resolution (SR) models are optimized for high performance only and therefore lack efficiency due to large model complexity. As large models are often not practical in real-world applications, we investigate and propose novel loss…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-03 Dario Fuoli , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

Weak gravitational lensing of the 21 cm radiation is expected to be an important cosmological probe for post-reionization physics. We investigate the reconstruction of the matter density perturbations using a quadratic minimum variance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 Priyesh Chakraborty , Anthony R. Pullen

The weak lensing surveys have the potential to probe directly the clustering statistics of dark matter in the universe. Recent studies have shown that it is possible to predict analytically the whole probability distribution function (pdf)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dipak Munshi