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We present the first detection of a cluster lensing signal with `Kinematic Lensing' (KL), a novel weak lensing method that combines photometry, spectroscopy, and the Tully-Fisher relation to enable shear measurements with individual source…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-28 Pranjal R. S. , Eric Huff , Elisabeth Krause , Tim Eifler , Spencer Everett , Yu-Hsiu Huang , Jiachuan Xu

We describe a new method for reducing the shape noise in weak lensing measurements by an order of magnitude. Our method relies on spectroscopic measurements of disk galaxy rotation and makes use of the Tully-Fisher relation in order to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-11 Eric M. Huff , Elisabeth Krause , Tim Eifler , Xiao Fang , Matthew R. George , David Schlegel

Kinematic lensing (KL) is a new cosmological measurement technique that combines traditional weak lensing (WL) shape measurements of disc galaxies with their kinematic information. Using the Tully-Fisher relation KL breaks the degeneracy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-28 Jiachuan Xu , Tim Eifler , Eric Huff , Pranjal R. S. , Hung-Jin Huang , Spencer Everett , Elisabeth Krause

We present a new approach to measuring cosmic shear: the one-component kinematic lensing (KL) method. This technique provides a simplified implementation of KL that reduces shape noise in weak lensing (WL) by combining kinematic information…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-25 Yu-Hsiu Huang , Elisabeth Krause , Tim Eifler , Gary Bernstein , Jiachuan Xu , Eric Huff , Pranjal R. S

Kinematic weak lensing describes the distortion of a galaxy's projected velocity field due to lensing shear, an effect recently reported for the first time by Gurri et al. based on a sample of 18 galaxies at $z \sim 0.1$. In this paper, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Brian DiGiorgio , Kevin Bundy , Kyle B. Westfall , Alexie Leauthaud , David Stark

We explore the science prospects of a 14,000 deg$^2$ Kinematic Lensing (KL) survey with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and overlapping imaging surveys. KL infers the cosmic shear signal by jointly forward modeling the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-31 Jiachuan Xu , Tim Eifler , Eason Wang , Elisabeth Krause , Spencer Everett , Eric Huff , Pranjal R. S. , Yu-Hsiu Huang

We introduce the kinematic lensing ratio (KiLeR), a geometric dark-energy probe from weak lensing. Combining shear ratios with intrinsic galaxy shapes inferred from kinematics, KiLeR naturally mitigates most first-order lensing systematics,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-30 Qinxun Li

Kinematic lensing (KL) is a new weak lensing technique that reduces shape noise for disk galaxies by including spectroscopically measured galaxy kinematics in addition to photometrically measured galaxy shapes. Since KL utilizes the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-09 Yu-Hsiu Huang , Elisabeth Krause , Jiachuan Xu , Tim Eifler , Pranjal R. S. , Eric Huff

We present a science case to perform high-redshift cosmic shear surveys for cosmology with next-generation spectroscopic instruments, such as the proposed MegaMapper and Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope. We argue that by using the novel…

The intrinsic scatter in the ellipticities of galaxies about the mean shape, known as "shape noise," is the most important source of noise in weak lensing shear measurements. Several approaches to reducing shape noise have recently been put…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-21 Rupert A. C. Croft , Peter E. Freeman , Thomas S. Schuster , Chad M. Schafer

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 wealth of incoming and future cosmological observations will allow us to map out the structure and evolution of the observable universe to an unprecedented level of precision. Among these observations is the weak gravitational lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. A. Troxel , Mustapha Ishak

Weak gravitational lensing shear could be measured far more precisely if information about unlensed attributes of source galaxies were available. Disk galaxy velocity fields supply such information, at least in principle, with idealized…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Jean Donet , David Wittman

We analyse the first measurements from precision weak lensing (PWL): a new methodology for measuring individual galaxy-galaxy weak lensing through velocity information. Our goal is to understand the observed shear distribution from PWL,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-24 Pol Gurri , Edward N. Taylor , Christopher J. Fluke

Cosmic shear leads to a correlation of the observed ellipticities of galaxies, an effect which is used to place constraints on cosmological parameters, and to explore the evolution of dark matter and dark energy in the universe. However, a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Lindsay King

Weak lensing shear estimation typically results in per galaxy statistical errors significantly larger than the sought after gravitational signal of only a few percent. These statistical errors are mostly a result of shape-noise -- an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Ofer M. Springer , Eran O. Ofek , Yair Weiss , Julian Merten

Point estimators for the shearing of galaxy images induced by gravitational lensing involve a complex inverse problem in the presence of noise, pixelization, and model uncertainties. We present a probabilistic forward modeling approach to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 Michael D. Schneider , David W. Hogg , Philip J. Marshall , William A. Dawson , Joshua Meyers , Deborah J. Bard , Dustin Lang

(Abridged) Weak gravitational lensing induces distortions on the images of background galaxies, and thus provides a direct measure of mass fluctuations in the universe. Since the distortions induced by lensing on the images of background…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 David Bacon , Alexandre Refregier , Douglas Clowe , Richard Ellis

We explore the utility of Karhunen Loeve (KL) analysis in solving practical problems in the analysis of gravitational shear surveys. Shear catalogs from large-field weak lensing surveys will be subject to many systematic limitations,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Jake Vanderplas , Andrew Connolly , Bhuvnesh Jain , Mike Jarvis

Gravitational lensing provides an efficient tool for the investigation of matter structures, independent of the dynamical or hydrostatic equilibrium properties of the deflecting system. However, it depends on the kinematic status. In fact,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Sereno
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