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We present a novel quantum tomographic reconstruction method based on Bayesian inference via the Kalman filter update equations. The method not only yields the maximum likelihood/optimal Bayesian reconstruction, but also a covariance matrix…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-13 Koenraad M. R. Audenaert , S. Scheel

Weak lensing observations measure the shear field and hence the gradient of the dimensionless surface density $\kappa$. We present several new algorithms to recover $\kappa$ {}from shear estimates on a finite region and compare how they…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Gordon Squires , Nick Kaiser

In this paper we provide a statistical analysis of the parameter-free method often used in weak lensing mass reconstructions. It is found that a proper assessment of the errors involved in such a non-local analysis requires the study of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marco Lombardi , Giuseppe Bertin

High precision cosmological distance measurements towards individual objects such as time delay gravitational lenses or type Ia supernovae are affected by weak lensing perturbations by galaxies and groups along the line of sight. In time…

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

In this paper, we propose a Two-step Krasnosel'skii-Mann (KM) Algorithm (TKMA) with adaptive momentum for solving convex optimization problems arising in image processing. Such optimization problems can often be reformulated as fixed-point…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Yongxin He , Jingyuan Li , Yizun Lin , Deren Han

We provide a complete characterization of the randomized Kaczmarz algorithm (RKA) for inconsistent linear systems. The Kaczmarz algorithm, known in some fields as the algebraic reconstruction technique, is a classical method for solving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-05 Chuang Wang , Ameya Agaskar , Yue M. Lu

We present reconstructed convergence maps, \textit{mass maps}, from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) third year (Y3) weak gravitational lensing data set. The mass maps are weighted projections of the density field (primarily dark matter) in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-23 N. Jeffrey , M. Gatti , C. Chang , L. Whiteway , U. Demirbozan , A. Kovacs , G. Pollina , D. Bacon , N. Hamaus , T. Kacprzak , O. Lahav , F. Lanusse , B. Mawdsley , S. Nadathur , J. L. Starck , P. Vielzeuf , D. Zeurcher , A. Alarcon , A. Amon , K. Bechtol , G. M. Bernstein , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , R. Cawthon , R. Chen , A. Choi , J. Cordero , C. Davis , J. DeRose , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , F. Elsner , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , A. Ferté , G. Giannini , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , E. M. Huff , D. Huterer , N. Kuropatkin , M. Jarvis , P. F. Leget , N. MacCrann , J. McCullough , J. Muir , J. Myles , A. Navarro-Alsina , S. Pandey , J. Prat , M. Raveri , R. P. Rollins , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , C. Sánchez , L. F. Secco , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , M. A. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , T. N. Varga , B. Yanny B. Yin , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , F. Andrade-Oliveira , M. R. Becker , E. Bertin , S. Bhargava , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , B. Hoyle , B. Jain , D. J. James , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. A. Plazas , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , A. Roodman , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , S. Serrano , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , J. Weller

Gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary mergers have emerged as one of the most promising probes of cosmology and General Relativity (GR). However, a major challenge in fully exploiting GWs as standard sirens with current and future…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-05 Matteo Tagliazucchi , Michele Moresco , Nicola Borghi , Manfred Fiebig

We introduce the skew-spectrum statistic for weak lensing convergence $\kappa$ maps and test it against state-of-the-art high-resolution all-sky numerical simulations. We perform the analysis as a function of source redshift and smoothing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 D. Munshi , T. Namikawa , T. D. Kitching , J. D. McEwen , F. R. Bouchet

Context: Weak gravitational lensing is a key cosmological probe for current and future large-scale surveys. While power spectra are commonly used for analyses, they fail to capture non-Gaussian information from nonlinear structure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-17 Vilasini Tinnaneri Sreekanth , Jean-Luc Starck , Sandrine Codis

Weak lensing provides a direct way of mapping the density distribution in the universe. To reconstruct the density field from the shear catalog, an important step is to build the shear field from the shear catalog, which can be quite…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-27 Haoran Wang , Jun Zhang , Hekun Li , Cong Liu

We explore the stability of the variance and skewness of the cosmic gravitational convergence field, using two different approaches: first we simulate a whole MEGACAM survey (100 sq. degrees). The reconstructed mass map, obtained from a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Thion , Y. Mellier , F. Bernardeau , E. Bertin , T. Erben , L. van Waerbeke

We present a novel, model-independent technique for fitting the cross-component of weak lensing shear, $\gamma_\times$, along a line of sight by combining kinematic and photometric measurements of a single lensed galaxy. Rather than relying…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-26 Christopher Hopp , David Wittman

We describe a novel end-to-end approach using Machine Learning to reconstruct the power spectrum of cosmological density perturbations at high redshift from observed quasar spectra. State-of-the-art cosmological simulations of structure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-21 Maria Han Veiga , Xi Meng , Oleg Y. Gnedin , Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Xun Huan

Weak-lensing mass-mapping algorithms, which reconstruct the convergence field from galaxy shear measurements, are crucial for extracting higher-order statistics to constrain cosmological parameters. However, only limited research has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Andreas Tersenov , Lucie Baumont , Jean-Luc Starck , Martin Kilbinger

We have developed a new technique called Direct Shear Mapping (DSM) to measure gravitational lensing shear directly from observations of a single background source. The technique assumes the velocity map of an un-lensed, stably-rotating…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-26 Catherine O. de Burgh-Day , Edward N. Taylor , Rachel L. Webster , Andrew M. Hopkins

Galactic all-sky maps at very disparate frequencies, like in the radio and $\gamma$-ray regime, show similar morphological structures. This mutual information reflects the imprint of the various physical components of the interstellar…

Recent Mamba-based image restoration methods have achieved promising results but remain limited by fixed scanning patterns and inefficient feature utilization. Conventional Mamba architectures rely on predetermined paths that cannot adapt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Han Hu , Zhuoran Zheng , Liang Li , Chen Lyu