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Weak gravitational lensing, or weak lensing, is one of the most powerful probes for dark matter and dark energy science, although it faces increasing challenges in controlling systematic uncertainties as \edit{the statistical errors become…

Weak gravitational lensing is one of the most promising cosmological probes of the late universe. Several large ongoing (DES, KiDS, HSC) and planned (LSST, EUCLID, WFIRST) astronomical surveys attempt to collect even deeper and larger scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Dezső Ribli , Bálint Ármin Pataki , José Manuel Zorrilla Matilla , Daniel Hsu , Zoltán Haiman , István Csabai

Here we present a number of improvements to weak lensing 3D power spectrum analysis, 3D cosmic shear, that uses the shape and redshift information of every galaxy to constrain cosmological parameters. We show how photometric redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 T. D. Kitching , A. F. Heavens , L. Miller

Future weak lensing surveys potentially hold the highest statistical power for constraining cosmological parameters compared to other cosmological probes. The statistical power of a weak lensing survey is determined by the sky coverage, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-05 C. Chang , M. Jarvis , B. Jain , S. M. Kahn , D. Kirkby , A. Connolly , S. Krughoff , E. Peng , J. R. Peterson

The general idea of determining cosmological parameters with gravitational lensing statistics is outlined, and then recent work---with an emphasis on applicability to all cosmological models, observational bias, better statistics and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-15 Phillip Helbig

The unprecedented amount and the excellent quality of lensing data that the upcoming ground- and space-based surveys will produce represent a great opportunity to shed light on the questions that still remain unanswered concerning our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 Carolina Parroni , Edouard Tollet , Vincenzo F. Cardone , Roberto Maoli , Roberto Scaramella

We investigate the expected correlation between the weak gravitational shear of distant galaxies and the orientation of foreground galaxies, through the use of numerical simulations. This shear-ellipticity correlation can mimic a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-18 Catherine Heymans , Martin White , Alan Heavens , Chris Vale , Ludovic Van Waerbeke

The statistical analysis of the lensing effects coupled with the statistical analysis of the number counts is a tool to probe directly the relation between the mass and the light. In particular, some properties of the bias parameter can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ludovic Van Waerbeke

Weak lensing by large-scale structure allows a direct measure of the dark matter distribution. We have used parallel images taken with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on the Hubble Space Telescope to measure weak lensing, or…

Cosmological weak lensing by the large scale structure of the Universe, cosmic shear, is coming of age as a powerful probe of the parameters describing the cosmological model and matter power spectrum. It complements CMB studies, by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Patrick Simon , Lindsay J. King , Peter Schneider

Intrinsic variations of the projected density profiles of clusters of galaxies at fixed mass are a source of uncertainty for cluster weak lensing. We present a semi-analytical model to account for this effect, based on a combination of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 D. Gruen , S. Seitz , M. R. Becker , O. Friedrich , A. Mana

We investigate the performance of an analytic model of the 3D matter distribution, which combines perturbation theory with halo models, for weak-lensing statistics. We compare our predictions for the weak-lensing convergence power spectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-24 Patrick Valageas , Masanori Sato , Takahiro Nishimichi

We estimate uncertainties of cosmological parameters for phenomenological interacting dark energy models using weak lensing convergence power spectrum and bispectrum. We focus on the bispectrum tomography and examine how well the weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-31 Rui An , Chang Feng , Bin Wang

In this third paper of a series on radio weak lensing for cosmology with the Square Kilometre Array, we scrutinise synergies between cosmic shear measurements in the radio and optical/near-IR bands for mitigating systematic effects. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 Stefano Camera , Ian Harrison , Anna Bonaldi , Michael L. Brown

We present a Bayesian hierarchical inference formalism to study the relation between the properties of dark matter halos and those of their central galaxies using weak gravitational lensing. Unlike traditional methods, this technique does…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-11 Alessandro Sonnenfeld , Alexie Leauthaud

Cosmological observables rely heavily on summary statistics such as two-point correlation functions. In many practical cases (e.g. the weak-lensing cosmic shear), those correlation functions are estimated from a finite, discrete sample of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-24 Pierre Fleury

Weak-lensing shear estimates show a troublesome dependence on the apparent brightness of the galaxies used to measure the ellipticity: In several studies, the amplitude of the inferred shear falls sharply with decreasing source…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-26 Peter Melchior , Massimo Viola

Weak gravitational lensing is becoming a mature technique for constraining cosmological parameters, and future surveys will be able to constrain the dark energy equation of state $w$. When analyzing galaxy surveys, redshift information has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-07 Andrea Petri , Morgan May , Zoltán Haiman

Extending previous studies, we derive generic predictions for lower order cumulants and their correlators for individual tomographic bins as well as between two different bins. We derive the corresponding one- and two-point joint…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Dipak Munshi , Peter Coles , Martin Kilbinger

Weak gravitational lensing observations probe the spectrum and evolution of density fluctuations and the cosmological parameters which govern them but are currently limited to small fields and subject to selection biases. We show how the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Asantha Cooray , Wayne Hu , Jordi Miralda-Escude
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