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We quantify the cosmological constraining power of the `lensing PDF' - the one-point probability density of weak lensing convergence maps - by modelling this statistic numerically with an emulator trained on $w$CDM cosmic shear simulations.…

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We examine the cosmological information available from the 1-point probability distribution (PDF) of the weak-lensing convergence field, utilizing fast L-PICOLA simulations and a Fisher analysis. We find competitive constraints in the…

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As weak lensing surveys go deeper, there is an increasing need for reliable characterization of non-Gaussian structures at small angular scales. Here we present the first cosmological constraints with weak lensing scattering transform, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-12 Sihao Cheng , Gabriela A. Marques , Daniela Grandón , Leander Thiele , Masato Shirasaki , Brice Ménard , Jia Liu

We study the constraints on neutrino mass sum (M_nu) from the one-point probability distribution function (PDF) and power spectrum of weak lensing measurements for an LSST-like survey, using the MassiveNuS simulations. The PDF provides…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Jia Liu , Mathew S. Madhavacheril

We present the first application of marked angular power spectra to weak lensing data, using maps from the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam Year 1 (HSC-Y1) survey. Marked convergence fields, constructed by weighting the convergence field with…

We present cosmological constraints derived from peak counts, minimum counts, and the angular power spectrum of the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam first-year (HSC Y1) weak lensing shear catalog. Weak lensing peak and minimum counts contain…

Weak lensing measurements are starting to provide statistical maps of the distribution of matter in the universe that are increasingly precise and complementary to cosmic microwave background maps. The probability distribution (PDF)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tong-Jie Zhang , Ue-Li Pen

In this work, we demonstrate the constraining power of the tomographic weak lensing convergence PDF for StageIV-like source galaxy redshift bins and shape noise. We focus on scales of $10$ to $20$ arcmin in the mildly nonlinear regime,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Lina Castiblanco , Cora Uhlemann , Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Alexandre Barthelemy

We present cosmological constraints from weak lensing with the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) first-year (Y1) data, using a simulation-based inference (SBI) method. % We explore the performance of a set of higher-order statistics (HOS)…

The 1-point matter density probability distribution function (PDF) captures some of the non-Gaussian information lost in standard 2-point statistics. The matter PDF can be well predicted at mildly non-linear scales using large deviations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Beth McCarthy Gould , Lina Castiblanco , Cora Uhlemann , Oliver Friedrich

We derive cosmological constraints from the probability distribution function (PDF) of evolved large-scale matter density fluctuations. We do this by splitting lines of sight by density based on their count of tracer galaxies, and by…

We present a joint cosmological analysis of the two-point correlation function and the aperture-mass skewness measured from the Year 3 data of the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-Y3). The aperture-mass skewness is a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Sunao Sugiyama , Rafael C. H. Gomes , Bhuvnesh Jain

We present cosmological constraints from the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) first-year weak lensing shear catalogue using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and conventional summary statistics. We crop 19 $3\times3\,\mathrm{{deg}^2}$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Tianhuan Lu , Zoltán Haiman , Xiangchong Li

We use Minkowski functionals to analyse weak lensing convergence maps from the first-year data release of the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC-Y1) survey. Minkowski functionals provide a description of the morphological properties of a field,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-13 Joaquin Armijo , Gabriela A. Marques , Camila P. Novaes , Leander Thiele , Jessica A. Cowell , Daniela Grandón , Masato Shirasaki , Jia Liu

The recent tension in the value of the cosmological parameter $S_8 \equiv \sigma_8(\Omega_M/0.3)^{1/2}$, which represents the amplitude of the matter density fluctuations of the universe, has not been resolved. In this work, we present…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-02 Erwin T. Lau , Ákos Bogdán , Daisuke Nagai , Nico Cappelluti , Masato Shirasaki

Pinning down the total neutrino mass and the dark energy equation of state is a key aim for upcoming galaxy surveys. Weak lensing is a unique probe of the total matter distribution whose non-Gaussian statistics can be quantified by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-08 Aoife Boyle , Cora Uhlemann , Oliver Friedrich , Alexandre Barthelemy , Sandrine Codis , Francis Bernardeau , Carlo Giocoli , Marco Baldi

We study the possibility of using the entire probability distribution function (PDF) of the aperture mass Map and its related cumulative probability distribution function (CPDF) to obtain meaningful constraints on cosmological parameters.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dipak Munshi , Patrick Valageas

The one-point probability distribution function (PDF) of the matter density field in the universe is a fundamental property that plays an essential role in cosmology for estimates such as gravitational weak lensing, non-linear clustering,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-10 Anatoly Klypin , Francisco Prada , Juan Betancort-Rijo , Franco D. Albareti

We present cosmological constraints using the abundance of weak-lensing shear-selected galaxy clusters in the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) Subaru Strategic Program. The clusters are selected on the mass maps constructed using the three-year (Y3)…

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