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Measuring weak lensing cosmic magnification signal is very challenging due to the overwhelming intrinsic clustering in the observed galaxy distribution. In this paper, we modify the Internal Linear Combination (ILC) method to reconstruct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-13 Shutong Hou , Yu Yu , Pengjie Zhang

We use weak gravitational lensing measurements from Year 3 Dark Energy Survey data to calibrate the masses of 443 galaxy clusters selected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect from Atacama Cosmology Telescope Data Release 5 maps of the cosmic…

Kaiser & Squires have proposed a technique for mapping the dark matter in galaxy clusters using the coherent weak distortion of background galaxy images caused by gravitational lensing. We investigate the effectiveness of this technique…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Gillian Wilson , Shaun Cole , Carlos S. Frenk

The COSMOS field has been the subject of a wide range of observations, with a number of studies focusing on reconstructing the 3D dark matter density field. Typically, these studies have focused on one given method or tracer. In this paper,…

We propose an Analytical method of Blind Separation (ABS) of cosmic magnification from the intrinsic fluctuations of galaxy number density in the observed galaxy number density distribution. The ABS method utilizes the different dependences…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-27 Xinjuan Yang , Jun Zhang , Yu Yu , Pengjie Zhang

Current constraints on dark matter density profiles from weak lensing are typically limited to radial scales greater than 50-100 kpc. In this paper, we explore the possibility of probing the very inner regions of galaxy/halo density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-15 Masato I. N. Kobayashi , Alexie Leauthaud , Surhud More , Nobuhiro Okabe , Clotilde Laigle , Jason Rhodes , Tsutomu T. Takeuchi

In large-scale galaxy surveys, particularly deep ground-based photometric studies, galaxy blending is inevitable and poses a potential primary systematic uncertainty for upcoming surveys. Current deblenders predominantly rely on analytical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-04 Ran Zhang , Meng Liu , Zhenping Yi , Hao Yuan , Zechao Yang , Yude Bu , Xiaoming Kong , Chenglin Jia , Yuchen Bi , Yusheng Zhang , Nan Li

The uncertainty in the photometric redshift estimation is one of the major systematics in weak lensing cosmology. The self-calibration method is able to reduce this systematics without assuming strong priors. We improve the recently…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-07 Hui Peng , Haojie Xu , Le Zhang , Zhao Chen , Yu Yu

We present cosmology results combining galaxy clustering and weak gravitational lensing measured in the full six years (Y6) of observations by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) covering $\sim$5000 deg$^2$. We perform a large-scale structure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-30 DES Collaboration , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Adamow , M. Aguena , A. Alarcon , S. S. Allam , O. Alves , A. Amon , D. Anbajagane , F. Andrade-Oliveira , S. Avila , D. Bacon , E. J. Baxter , J. Beas-Gonzalez , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , J. Blazek , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. Brout , H. Camacho , G. Camacho-Ciurana , R. Camilleri , G. Campailla , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , P. Carrilho , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , A. Choi , J. M. Coloma-Nadal , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , W. d'Assignies , L. N. da Costa , M. E. da Silva Pereira , T. M. Davis , J. De Vicente , J. DeRose , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , T. F. Eifler , J. Elvin-Poole , J. Estrada , S. Everett , A. E. Evrard , J. Fang , A. Farahi , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , G. Giannini , P. Giles , K. Glazebrook , M. Gorsuch , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , E. Henning , K. Herner , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , E. M. Huff , D. Huterer , B. Jain , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , N. Jeffrey , T. Jeltema , T. Kacprzak , S. Kent , A. Kovacs , E. Krause , R. Kron , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , S. Lee , E. Legnani , C. Lidman , H. Lin , N. MacCrann , M. Manera , T. Manning , J. L. Marshall , S. Mau , J. McCullough , J. Mena-Fernández , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , J. Muir , J. Myles , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , J. H. O'Donnell , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , M. Paterno , J. Peoples , W. J. Percival , D. Petravick , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Porredon , A. Pourtsidou , J. Prat , C. Preston , M. Raveri , W. Riquelme , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , P. Rogozenski , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , S. Samuroff , C. Sánchez , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , T. Schutt , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , N. Sherman , T. Shin , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , M. Tabbutt , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , A. Tong , L. Toribio San Cipriano , M. A. Troxel , M. Tsedrik , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , N. Weaverdyck , R. H. Wechsler , D. H. Weinberg , J. Weller , V. Wetzell , A. Whyley , R. D. Wilkinson , P. Wiseman , H. -Y. Wu , M. Yamamoto , B. Yanny , B. Yin , G. Zacharegkas , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz

Weak lensing applied to deep optical images of clusters of galaxies provides a powerful tool to reconstruct the distribution of the gravitating mass associated to these structures. We use the shear signal extracted by an analysis of deep…

We investigate the expected cosmological constraints from a combination of weak lensing and large-scale galaxy clustering using realistic redshift distributions. Introducing a systematic bias in the weak lensing redshift distributions (of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 S Samuroff , MA Troxel , SL Bridle , J Zuntz , N MacCrann , E Krause , T Eifler , D Kirk

Weak lensing studies typically require excellent seeing conditions for the purpose of maximizing the number density of well-resolved galaxy images. It is interesting to ask to what extent the seeing size limits the usefulness of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Jun Zhang , Cong Liu , Pedro Alonso Vaquero , Hekun Li , Haoran Wang , Zhi Shen , Fuyu Dong

The combination of galaxy-galaxy weak lensing and galaxy clustering is a powerful probe of the cosmological model, and exploration of how to best model and extract this information from the signals is essential. We present the measurement…

We present a weak lensing and multi-wavelength analysis of three galaxy clusters: A115, A2219, and A2261. Weak lensing is performed using shape measurements made in short 60s exposure images obtained using WIYN-ODI. Forced measurement is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-14 Anirban Dutta , John Peterson , Matteo Cianfaglione , Glenn Sembroski

Weak gravitational lensing is one of the key probes of cosmology. Cosmic shear surveys aimed at measuring the distribution of matter in the universe are currently being carried out (Pan-STARRS) or planned for the coming decade (DES, LSST,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-22 Alberto Vallinotto

We present a tomographic cosmological weak lensing analysis of the HST COSMOS Survey. Applying our lensing-optimized data reduction, principal component interpolation for the ACS PSF, and improved modelling of charge-transfer inefficiency,…

We present the Metadetection weak lensing galaxy shape catalogue from the six-year Dark Energy Survey (DES Y6) imaging data. This dataset is the final release from DES, spanning 4422 deg$^2$ of the southern sky. We describe how the…

We investigate the occurrence of multiple weak deflections in deep data sets which are used to detect galaxy-galaxy lensing. Using the galaxies in the HDF (North) for which both redshifts and rest-frame blue luminosities are known, we show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. O. Wright , T. G. Brainerd

We present the results of a weak lensing survey of six high-redshift (z > 0.5), X-ray selected clusters of galaxies. We have obtained ultra-deep R-band images of each cluster with the Keck Telescope, and have measured a weak lensing signal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Clowe , G. Luppino , N. Kaiser , I. Gioia

We present an independent calibration of the photometric redshift (photo-$z$) distributions for source galaxies in the HSC-Y3 weak lensing survey using small-scale galaxy-galaxy lensing. By measuring the tangential shear around…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-31 Divya Rana , Surhud More , Hironao Miyatake , Sunao Sugiyama , Tianqing Zhang , Masato Shirasaki