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SubHalo Abundance Matching (SHAM) is an empirical method for constructing galaxy catalogues based on high-resolution $N$-body simulations. We apply SHAM on the UNIT simulation to simulate SDSS BOSS/eBOSS Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) within…

Weak gravitational lensing is becoming a mature technique for constraining cosmological parameters, and future surveys will be able to constrain the dark energy equation of state $w$. When analyzing galaxy surveys, redshift information has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-07 Andrea Petri , Morgan May , Zoltán Haiman

Determining cosmological parameters with high precision, as well as resolving current tensions in their values derived from low and high redshift probes, is one of the main objectives of the new generation of cosmological surveys. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-01 Marc Alemany-Gotor , Isaac Tutusaus , Pablo Fosalba

In this paper we present photometric redshift (photo-$z$) estimates for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Surveys, currently the most sensitive optical survey covering the majority of the extra-galactic sky. Our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 Kenneth J. Duncan

We present a cosmological analysis using the second and third moments of the weak lensing mass (convergence) maps from the first three years of data (Y3) data of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). The survey spans an effective area of 4139…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-12 M. Gatti , B. Jain , C. Chang , M. Raveri , D. Zürcher , L. Secco , L. Whiteway , N. Jeffrey , C. Doux , T. Kacprzak , D. Bacon , P. Fosalba , A. Alarcon , A. Amon , K. Bechtol , M. Becker , G. Bernstein , J. Blazek , A. Campos , A. Choi , C. Davis , J. Derose , S. Dodelson , F. Elsner , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , A. Ferte , D. Gruen , I. Harrison , D. Huterer , M. Jarvis , E. Krause , P. F. Leget , P. Lemos , N. Maccrann , J. Mccullough , J. Muir , J. Myles , A. Navarro , S. Pandey , J. Prat , R. P. Rollins , A. Roodman , C. Sanchez , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , M. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , B. Yin , M. Aguena , S. Allam , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Anni , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , R. Cawthon , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , A. E. Evrard , I. Ferrero , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , T. Giannantonio , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Laha , C. Lidman , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , R. Morgan , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , K. Reil , M. Rodriguez-Monroyv , A. K. Romer , E. Sanchez , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , T. N. Varga

We present simulation-based cosmological $w$CDM inference using Dark Energy Survey Year 3 weak-lensing maps, via neural data compression of weak-lensing map summary statistics: power spectra, peak counts, and direct map-level…

Many of the cosmological tests to be performed by planned dark energy experiments will require extremely well-characterized photometric redshift measurements. Current estimates are that the true mean redshift of the objects in each photo-z…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-22 Daniel J. Matthews , Jeffrey A. Newman

We measure the correspondence between the distribution of galaxies and matter around troughs and peaks in the projected galaxy density, by comparing \texttt{redMaGiC} galaxies ($0.15<z<0.65$) to weak lensing mass maps from the Dark Energy…

The accurate determination of the true redshift distributions in tomographic bins is critical for cosmological constraints from photometric surveys. The proposed redshift self-calibration method, which utilizes the photometric galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Hui Peng , Yu Yu

In Lima et al. 2008 we presented a new method for estimating the redshift distribution, N(z), of a photometric galaxy sample, using photometric observables and weighted sampling from a spectroscopic subsample of the data. In this paper, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-18 Carlos E. Cunha , Marcos Lima , Hiroaki Oyaizu , Joshua Frieman , Huan Lin

We describe the Dark Energy Survey (DES) photometric data set assembled from the first three years of science operations to support DES Year 3 cosmology analyses, and provide usage notes aimed at the broad astrophysics community. Y3 Gold…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-28 I. Sevilla-Noarbe , K. Bechtol , M. Carrasco Kind , A. Carnero Rosell , M. R. Becker , A. Drlica-Wagner , R. A. Gruendl , E. S. Rykoff , E. Sheldon , B. Yanny , A. Alarcon , S. Allam , A. Amon , A. Benoit-Lévy , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , D. L. Burke , J. Carretero , A. Choi , H. T. Diehl , S. Everett , B. Flaugher , E. Gaztanaga , J. Gschwend , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , B. Hoyle , M. Jarvis , M. D. Johnson , R. Kessler , R. Kron , N. Kuropatkin , B. Leistedt , T. S. Li , F. Menanteau , E. Morganson , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. Pieres , C. Pond , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , J. Allyn-Smith , K. M. Stringer , M. A. Troxel , D. L. Tucker , J. de Vicente , W. Wester , Y. Zhang , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , J. Annis , S. Avila , S. Bhargava , S. L. Bridle , D. Brooks , D. Brout , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , M. E. E. Pereira , T. M. Davis , S. Desai , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , K. Eckert , A. E. Evrard , I. Ferrero , P. Fosalba , J. García-Bellido , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , D. Gruen , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , E. M. Huff , D. Huterer , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , C. Lidman , M. Lima , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , E. Neilsen , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , M. Smith , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , T. N. Varga , R. H. Wechsler , J. Weller , R. D. Wilkinson

Cosmological analyses of galaxy surveys rely on knowledge of the redshift distribution of their galaxy sample. This is usually derived from a spectroscopic and/or many-band photometric calibrator survey of a small patch of sky. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 Carles Sánchez , Marco Raveri , Alex Alarcon , Gary M. Bernstein

In this paper, we employ two model-independent approaches, including redshift binning method and polynomial interpolation method, to reconstruct dark energy (DE) equation of state (EoS) $w(z)$ and DE density function $f(z)$. Our analysis…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Jun-Xian Li , Shuang Wang

We present a simple, efficient and robust approach to improve cosmological redshift measurements. The method is based on the presence of a reference sample for which a precise redshift number distribution (dN/dz) can be obtained for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-13 Nicolas Tejos , Aldo Rodriguez-Puebla , Joel R. Primack

We study the optimal use of third order statistics in the analysis of weak lensing by large-scale structure. These higher order statistics have long been advocated as a powerful tool to break measured degeneracies between cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-15 S. Vafaei , T. Lu , L. van Waerbeke , E. Semboloni , C. Heymans , U. L. Pen

In the present study, we use the DES Y3 catalog of LRG to incorporate the realistic galaxies' redshift Probability Distribution Function(PDF) into the correlation function cosmological model. We used four different photo-z estimators ANNz2,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-06 Paula S. Ferreira , Ribamar R. R. Reis

We present a new method to classify the broad band optical-NIR spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of galaxies using three shape parameters (super-colours) based on a Principal Component Analysis of model SEDs. As well as providing a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Vivienne Wild , Omar Almaini , Michele Cirasuolo , Jim Dunlop , Ross McLure , Rebecca Bowler , Joao Ferreira , Emma Bradshaw , Robert Chuter , Will Hartley

We measure the redshift evolution of galaxy bias for a magnitude-limited galaxy sample by combining the galaxy density maps and weak lensing shear maps for a $\sim$116 deg$^{2}$ area of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Science Verification…

Combining redshift and galaxy shape information offers new exciting ways of exploiting the gravitational lensing effect for studying the large scales of the cosmos. One application is the three-dimensional reconstruction of the matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Patrick Simon , Andy Taylor , Jan Hartlap

We present a computationally efficient galaxy archetype-based redshift estimation and spectral classification method for the Dark Energy Survey Instrument (DESI) survey. The DESI survey currently relies on a redshift fitter and spectral…

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