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Weak-lensing searches for galaxy clusters are plagued by low completeness and purity, severely limiting their usefulness for constraining cosmological parameters with the cluster mass function. A significant fraction of `false positives'…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. P. Dietrich , J. Hartlap

Analysing the weak lensing distortions of the images of faint background galaxies provides a means to constrain the average mass distribution of cluster galaxies and potentially to test the extent of their dark matter haloes as a function…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Bernhard Geiger , Peter Schneider

We develop a framework to study the relation between the stellar mass of a galaxy and the total mass of its host dark matter halo using galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements. We model a wide range of scales, roughly from…

Cluster weak lensing is a sensitive probe of cosmology, particularly the amplitude of matter clustering $\sigma_8$ and matter density parameter $\Omega_m$. The main nuisance parameter in a cluster weak lensing cosmological analysis is the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Andrés N. Salcedo , Benjamin D. Wibking , David H. Weinberg , Hao-Yi Wu , Douglas Ferrer , Daniel Eisenstein , Philip Pinto

The statistics of peaks in weak lensing convergence maps is a promising tool to investigate both the properties of dark matter haloes and constrain the cosmological parameters. We study how the number of detectable peaks and its scaling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 V. F. Cardone , S. Camera , M. Sereno , G. Covone , R. Maoli , R. Scaramella

Recently, a number of methods have emerged to detect galaxy clusters solely through their weak lensing signal. Using the recently-introduced wavelet multi-scale detection method, we focus here on the potential for the use of tomographic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 L. Chappuis , S. Pires , G. W. Pratt , G. Leroy , A. Daurelle , C. Giocoli , C. Carbone

In a previous paper we investigated means for constraining the mass distribution of cluster galaxies by weak lensing. We concluded that a comprehensive method should treat the lensing effects of individual cluster galaxies and those…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Bernhard Geiger , Peter Schneider

Weak lensing surveys are expected to provide direct measurements of the statistics of the projected dark matter distribution. Most analytical studies of weak lensing statistics have been limited to quasilinear scales as they relied on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dipak Munshi , Bhuvnesh Jain

Continuous wavelet analysis has been increasingly employed in various fields of science and engineering due to its remarkable ability to maintain optimal resolution in both space and scale. Here, we introduce wavelet-based statistics,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-29 Yun Wang , Hua-Yu Yang , Ping He

We use dense redshift surveys of nine galaxy clusters at $z\sim0.2$ to compare the galaxy distribution in each system with the projected matter distribution from weak lensing. By combining 2087 new MMT/Hectospec redshifts and the data in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Ho Seong Hwang , Margaret J. Geller , Antonaldo Diaferio , Kenneth J. Rines , H. Jabran Zahid

Weak gravitational lensing provides a unique method to map directly the dark matter in the Universe. The majority of lensing analyses uses the two-point statistics of the cosmic shear field to constrain the cosmological model yielding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 S. Pires , J. -L. Starck , A. Amara , A. Refregier , R. Teyssier

Ongoing and future wide-field galaxy surveys can be used to locate a number of clusters of galaxies with cosmic shear measurement alone. We study constraints on cosmological models using statistics of weak lensing selected galaxy clusters.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Masato Shirasaki , Takashi Hamana , Naoki Yoshida

We present forecasts for constraints on the matter density ($\Omega_m$) and the amplitude of matter density fluctuations at 8h$^{-1}$Mpc ($\sigma_8$) from CMB lensing convergence maps and galaxy weak lensing convergence maps. For CMB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-17 Kyle Boone , Georgios Valogiannis , Marco Gatti , Cora Dvorkin

We compare the efficiency of weak lensing-selected galaxy clusters counts and of the weak lensing bispectrum at capturing non-Gaussian features in the dark matter distribution. We use the halo model to compute the weak lensing power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Joel Berge , Adam Amara , Alexandre Refregier

The abundance of peaks in weak gravitational lensing maps is a potentially powerful cosmological tool, complementary to measurements of the shear power spectrum. We study peaks detected directly in shear maps, rather than convergence maps,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Nicolas Martinet , James G. Bartlett , Alina Kiessling , Barbara Sartoris

Context. The density split statistics in weak gravitational lensing analyses probes the correlation between regions of different (foreground) galaxy number densities and their weak lensing signal, measured by the shape distortion of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Pierre Burger , Peter Schneider , Vasiliy Demchenko , Joachim Harnois-Deraps , Catherine Heymans , Hendrik Hildebrandt , Sandra Unruh

We present a weak lensing analysis of the galaxy cluster Abell 2390 at z = 0.23 using second moment shape measurements made in 411 short 60s exposures. The exposures are obtained in three broadband photometric filters (g, r, i) using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-05 A. Dutta , J. R. Peterson , T. Rose , M. Cianfaglione , A. Bonafede , G. Li , G. Sembroski

We propose to use a simple observable, the fractional area of "hot spots" in weak gravitational lensing mass maps which are detected with high significance, to determine background cosmological parameters. Because these high-convergence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Sheng Wang , Zoltán Haiman , Morgan May

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 explore the joint weak lensing and galaxy clustering analysis from the photometric survey operated by the China Space Station Telescope (CSST), and study the strength of the cosmological constraints. We employ a high-resolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-10 Qi Xiong , Yan Gong , Xingchen Zhou , Hengjie Lin , Furen Deng , Ziwei Li , Ayodeji Ibitoye , Xuelei Chen , Zuhui Fan , Qi Guo , Ming Li , Yun Liu , Wenxiang Pei