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Weak gravitational lensing is considered to be one of the most powerful tools to study the mass and the mass distribution of galaxy clusters. However, weak lensing mass reconstructions are plagued by the so-called mass-sheet degeneracy--the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Bradac , M. Lombardi , P. Schneider

Weak gravitational lensing is a powerful probe of the large-scale cosmic matter distribution. Wide-field galaxy surveys allow us to generate the so-called weak lensing maps, but actual observations suffer from noise due to imperfect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Masato Shirasaki , Naoki Yoshida , Shiro Ikeda

Magnification serves as an independent and complementary gravitational lensing measurement to shear. We develop a novel method to achieve an accurate and robust magnification measurement around BOSS CMASS galaxies across physical scales of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-25 Kun Xu , Y. P. Jing , Hongyu Gao , Xiaolin Luo , Ming Li

Metacalibration is a new technique for measuring weak gravitational lensing shear that is unbiased for isolated galaxy images. In this work we test metacalibration with overlapping, or ``blended'' galaxy images. Using standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Erin S. Sheldon , Matthew R. Becker , Niall MacCrann , Michael Jarvis

We present a new non-parametric method for determining mean 3D density and mass profiles from weak lensing measurements around stacked samples of galaxies or clusters, that is, from measurement of the galaxy-shear or cluster-shear…

We present results from a set of simulations designed to constrain the weak lensing shear calibration for the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) survey. These simulations include HSC observing conditions and galaxy images from the Hubble Space…

Combined survey analyses of galaxy clustering and weak gravitational lensing (3x2-pt studies) will allow new and accurate tests of the standard cosmological model. However, careful validation is necessary to ensure that these cosmological…

Weak gravitational lensing has the potential to place tight constraints on the equation of the state of dark energy. However, this will only be possible if shear measurement methods can reach the required level of accuracy. We present a new…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Guldariya Nurbaeva , Malte Tewes , Frederic Courbin , Georges Meylan

Convergence maps of the integrated matter distribution are a key science result from weak gravitational lensing surveys. To date, recovering convergence maps has been performed using a planar approximation of the celestial sphere. However,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-16 Christopher G. R. Wallis , Matthew A. Price , Jason D. McEwen , Thomas D. Kitching , Boris Leistedt , Antoine Plouviez

We present a joint weak lensing and X-ray analysis of 4 deg$^2$ from the CFHTLS and XMM-LSS surveys. Our weak lensing analysis is the first analysis of a real survey using shapelets, a new generation weak lensing analysis method. We create…

Weak lensing is emerging as a powerful observational tool to constrain cosmological models, but is at present limited by an incomplete understanding of many sources of systematic error. Many of these errors are multiplicative and depend on…

We present a simple method to accurately infer line of sight (LOS) integrated lensing effects for galaxy scale strong lens systems through image reconstruction. Our approach enables us to separate weak lensing LOS effects from the main…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-02 Simon Birrer , Cyril Welschen , Adam Amara , Alexandre Refregier

We present an 8 sigma detection of cosmic magnification measured by the variation of quasar density due to gravitational lensing by foreground large scale structure. To make this measurement we used 3800 square degrees of photometric…

We measure the cross-correlation between weak lensing of galaxy images and of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The effects of gravitational lensing on different sources will be correlated if the lensing is caused by the same mass…

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