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We present a simulation-based cosmological analysis using a combination of Gaussian and non-Gaussian statistics of the weak lensing mass (convergence) maps from the first three years (Y3) of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We implement: 1)…

Weak gravitational lensing provides a unique method to map directly the dark matter in the Universe. The majority of lensing analyses uses the two-point statistics of the cosmic shear field to constrain the cosmological model yielding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 S. Pires , J. -L. Starck , A. Amara , A. Refregier , R. Teyssier

We present results of weak lensing cluster counts obtained from 11 sq.deg SuprimeCam data. Although the area is much smaller than previous work dealing with weak lensing peak statistics, the number density of galaxies usable for weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Takashi Hamana , Junya Sakurai , Michitaro Koike , Lance Miller

Weak gravitational lensing has become a common tool to constrain the cosmological model. The majority of the methods to derive constraints on cosmological parameters use second-order statistics of the cosmic shear. Despite their success,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Sandrine Pires , Adrienne Leonard , Jean-Luc Starck

This work and its companion paper, Amon et al. (2021), present cosmic shear measurements and cosmological constraints from over 100 million source galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 3 data. We constrain the lensing amplitude…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-17 L. F. Secco , S. Samuroff , E. Krause , B. Jain , J. Blazek , M. Raveri , A. Campos , A. Amon , A. Chen , C. Doux , A. Choi , D. Gruen , G. M. Bernstein , C. Chang , J. DeRose , J. Myles , A. Ferté , P. Lemos , D. Huterer , J. Prat , M. A. Troxel , N. MacCrann , A. R. Liddle , T. Kacprzak , X. Fang , C. Sánchez , S. Pandey , S. Dodelson , P. Chintalapati , K. Hoffmann , A. Alarcon , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , E. J. Baxter , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , A. Brandao-Souza , H. Camacho , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , R. Cawthon , J. P. Cordero , M. Crocce , C. Davis , E. Di Valentino , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , T. F. Eifler , M. Elidaiana , F. Elsner , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , P. Fosalba , O. Friedrich , M. Gatti , G. Giannini , R. A. Gruendl , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , H. Huang , E. M. Huff , M. Jarvis , N. Jeffrey , N. Kuropatkin , P. -F. Leget , J. Muir , J. Mccullough , A. Navarro Alsina , Y. Omori , Y. Park , A. Porredon , R. Rollins , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , J. Sanchez , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. S. Sheldon , T. Shin , I. Tutusaus , T. N. Varga , N. Weaverdyck , R. H. Wechsler , B. Yanny , B. Yin , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , S. Bhargava , S. L. Bridle , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , J. Carretero , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , J. De Vicente , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , M. Lima , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , D. Petravick , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , A. K. Romer , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , D. Scolnic , S. Serrano , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To

Weak lensing surveys are often summarized by constraints on the derived parameter ${S_8\equiv\sigma_8\sqrt{\Omega_{\rm m}/0.3}}$, obscuring the rich scale and redshift information encoded in the data, and limiting our ability to identify…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-08 Cyrille Doux , Tanvi Karwal

The combination of galaxy clustering and weak lensing is a powerful probe of the cosmology model. We present a joint analysis of galaxy clustering and weak lensing cosmology using SDSS data as the tracer of dark matter (lens sample) and the…

Cosmic shear data contains a large amount of cosmological information encapsulated in the non-Gaussian features of the weak lensing mass maps. This information can be extracted using non-Gaussian statistics. We compare the constraining…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Dominik Zürcher , Janis Fluri , Raphael Sgier , Tomasz Kacprzak , Alexandre Refregier

The existence of galaxy intrinsic clustering severely hampers the weak lensing reconstruction from cosmic magnification. In paper I \citep{Yang2011}, we proposed a minimal variance estimator to overcome this problem. By utilizing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Xinjuan Yang , Pengjie Zhang , Jun Zhang , Yu Yu

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

We perform a joint analysis of the abundance, the clustering and the galaxy-galaxy lensing signal of galaxies measured from Data Release 11 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (SDSS III-BOSS) in our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Surhud More , Hironao Miyatake , Rachel Mandelbaum , Masahiro Takada , David Spergel , Joel Brownstein , Donald P. Schneider

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

Focusing on the well motivated aperture mass statistics $\Map$, we study the possibility of constraining cosmological parameters using future space based SNAP class weak lensing missions. Using completely analytical results we construct the…

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

Ongoing and planned weak lensing (WL) surveys are becoming deep enough to contain information on angular scales down to a few arcmin. To fully extract information from these small scales, we must capture non-Gaussian features in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Tianhuan Lu , Zoltán Haiman , José Manuel Zorrilla Matilla

Weak lensing peak abundance analyses have been applied in different surveys and demonstrated to be a powerful statistics in extracting cosmological information complementary to cosmic shear two-point correlation studies. Future large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Shuo Yuan , Chuzhong Pan , Xiangkun Liu , Qiao Wang , Zuhui Fan

We present a combined tomographic weak gravitational lensing analysis of the Kilo Degree Survey (KV450) and the Dark Energy Survey (DES-Y1). We homogenize the analysis of these two public cosmic shear datasets by adopting consistent priors…

We present constraints on the amplitude of matter fluctuations from the clustering of galaxies and their cross-correlation with the gravitational lensing convergence of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), focusing on low redshifts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-13 Andrea Rubiola , Matteo Zennaro , Carlos García-García , David Alonso

Cosmology from weak gravitational lensing has been limited by astrophysical uncertainties in baryonic feedback and intrinsic alignments. By calibrating these effects using external data, we recover non-linear information, achieving a 2%…