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Intrinsic alignments (IA), the coherent alignment of intrinsic galaxy orientations, can be a source of a systematic error of weak lensing surveys. The redshift evolution of IA also contains information about the physics of galaxy formation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-26 Motonari Tonegawa , Teppei Okumura , Tomonori Totani , Gavin Dalton , Karl Glazebrook , Kiyoto Yabe

The intrinsic alignments (IA) of galaxies, regarded as a contaminant in weak lensing analyses, represents the correlation of galaxy shapes due to gravitational tidal interactions and galaxy formation processes. As such, understanding IA is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-23 Sneh Pandya , Yuanyuan Yang , Nicholas Van Alfen , Jonathan Blazek , Robin Walters

We constrain the luminosity and redshift dependence of the intrinsic alignment (IA) of a nearly volume-limited sample of luminous red galaxies selected from the fourth public data release of the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-1000). To measure…

We develop an analytic model for galaxy intrinsic alignments (IA) based on the theory of tidal alignment. We calculate all relevant nonlinear corrections at one-loop order, including effects from nonlinear density evolution, galaxy biasing,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Jonathan Blazek , Zvonimir Vlah , Uroš Seljak

Intrinsic alignments (IA) of galaxies have been recognized as one of the most serious contaminants to weak lensing. These systematics need to be isolated and mitigated in order for ongoing and future lensing surveys to reach their full…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 Ji Yao , Mustapha Ishak , Weikang Lin , M. A. Troxel

The intrinsic alignment (IA) of galaxies has been shown to be a significant barrier to precision cosmic shear measurements. (Zhang, 2010, ApJ, 720, 1090) proposed a self-calibration technique for the power spectrum to calculate the induced…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. A. Troxel , Mustapha Ishak

We report the first evidence for intrinsic alignment (IA) of red galaxies at $z>1$. We measure the gravitational shear-intrinsic ellipticity (GI) cross-correlation function at $z\sim1.3$ using galaxy positions from the FastSound…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-04 Motonari Tonegawa , Teppei Okumura

We consider the effect of galaxy intrinsic alignments (IAs) on dark energy constraints from weak gravitational lensing. We summarise the latest version of the linear alignment model of IAs, following the brief note of Hirata & Seljak (2010)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Donnacha Kirk , Anais Rassat , Ole Host , Sarah Bridle

We present legacy cosmic shear measurements and cosmological constraints using six years of Dark Energy Survey imaging data. From these data, we study ~140 million galaxies (8.29 galaxies/arcmin$^2$) that are 50% complete at i=24.0 and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 DES Collaboration , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , A. Alarcon , O. Alves , A. Amon , D. Anbajagane , F. Andrade-Oliveira , W. d'Assignies , S. Avila , D. Bacon , J. Beas-Gonzalez , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , J. Blazek , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , H. Camacho , G. Camacho-Ciurana , R. Camilleri , G. Campailla , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , A. Choi , J. M. Coloma-Nadal , C. Conselice , L. N. da Costa , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , T. M. Davis , J. De Vicente , D. L. DePoy , J. DeRose , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , T. F. Eifler , S. Everett , A. E. Evrard , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , O. Friedrich , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , M. Gatti , G. Giannini , P. Giles , K. Glazebrook , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , B. Jain , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , N. Jeffrey , T. Jeltema , T. Kacprzak , S. Kent , E. Krause , O. Lahav , S. Lee , E. Legnani , H. Lin , J. L. Marshall , S. Mau , J. Mena-Fernández , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , J. Muir , J. Myles , R. C. Nichol , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , M. Paterno , W. J. Percival , D. Petravick , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Porredon , J. Prat , C. Preston , M. Raveri , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. S. Rykoff , S. Samuroff , C. Sánchez , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , T. Schutt , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , M. E. da Silva Pereira , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , M. Tabbutt , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , M. A. Troxel , V. Vikram , M. Vincenzi , N. Weaverdyck , J. Weller , P. Wiseman , M. Yamamoto , B. Yanny , B. Yin , J. Zuntz

The galaxy intrinsic alignment (IA) is a dominant source of systematics in weak lensing (WL) studies. In this paper, by employing large simulations with semi-analytical galaxy formation, we investigate the IA effects on WL peak statistics.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-29 Tianyu Zhang , Xiangkun Liu , Chengliang Wei , Guoliang Li , Yu Luo , Xi Kang , Zuhui Fan

The galaxy intrinsic alignment (IA) is a major challenge of weak lensing cosmology. To alleviate this problem, Zhang (2010, MNRAS, 406, L95) proposed a self-calibration method, independent of IA modeling. This proposal relies on several…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Xian-guang Meng , Yu Yu , Pengjie Zhang , Yipeng Jing

The intrinsic alignment (IA) of observed galaxy shapes with the underlying cosmic web is a source of contamination in weak lensing surveys. Sensitive methods to identify the IA signal will therefore need to be included in the upcoming weak…

We present a complete forward model of a realistic weak lensing galaxy catalogue based on the 740 Mpc hydrodynamical MillenniumTNG (MTNG) simulation. Starting with a complete particle and cell lightcone covering one octant of the sky with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-23 Fulvio Ferlito , Volker Springel , Christopher T. Davies , Toshiki Kurita , Ana Maria Delgado , Sownak Bose , Lars Hernquist

Forthcoming Stage-IV dark energy optical surveys, such as LSST, have the ambitious goal of measuring cosmological parameters at sub-percent precision. Realizing their full scientific potential requires very precise measurement of the cosmic…

Intrinsic alignment (IA) of source galaxies represents an important contaminant for upcoming cosmic shear surveys. In particular, it is expected on general grounds that IA contains a B-mode while the weak lensing signal does not. Thus, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-13 Christos Georgiou , Thomas Bakx , Juliard van Donkersgoed , Nora Elisa Chisari

We directly constrain the non-linear alignment (NLA) model of intrinsic galaxy alignments, analysing the most representative and complete flux-limited sample of spectroscopic galaxies available for cosmic shear surveys. We measure the…

The high sensitivity of the new generation of radio telescopes such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will allow cosmological weak lensing measurements at radio wavelengths that are competitive with optical surveys. We present an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-23 Marzia Rivi , Lance Miller , Sphesihle Makhathini , Filipe Batoni Abdalla

We show that the spatial correlation of the intrinsic alignments (IAs) of galaxies, measured in galaxy redshift surveys, offers a precision route to improve the geometrical and dynamical constraints on cosmology. The IA has been treated as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-25 Atsushi Taruya , Teppei Okumura

Intrinsic alignments (IA), correlations between the intrinsic shapes and orientations of galaxies on the sky, are both a significant systematic in weak lensing and a probe of the effect of large-scale structure on galactic structure and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Denise M. Schmitz , Christopher M. Hirata , Jonathan Blazek , Elisabeth Krause