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Context. The density split statistics in weak gravitational lensing analyses probes the correlation between regions of different (foreground) galaxy number densities and their weak lensing signal, measured by the shape distortion of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Pierre Burger , Peter Schneider , Vasiliy Demchenko , Joachim Harnois-Deraps , Catherine Heymans , Hendrik Hildebrandt , Sandra Unruh

Weak gravitational lensing surveys have the potential to directly probe mass density fluctuation in the universe. Recent studies have shown that it is possible to model the statistics of the convergence field at small angular scales by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dipak Munshi , Bhuvnesh Jain

We investigate the cosmological constraining power of combined weak galaxy lensing and galaxy clustering probes, i.e. $3\times2$-point analyses, assuming flexible models for redshift uncertainty, and Lagrangian perturbation theory and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 Joseph DeRose , Noah Weaverdyck , Martin White , Shi-Fan Chen , David Schlegel , Anže Slosar

We study the correlations of the shear signal between triplets of sources in the Canada-France-Hawaii Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS) to probe cosmological parameters via the matter bispectrum. In contrast to previous studies, we adopted a…

We present an end-to-end methodology to measure the effects of weak lensing on individual galaxy-galaxy systems exploiting their kinematic information. Using this methodology, we have measured a shear signal from the velocity fields of 18…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-22 Pol Gurri , Edward N. Taylor , Christopher J. Fluke

Observational evidence shows that gravitational lensing induces an angular correlation between the distribution of galaxies and much more distant QSOs. We use weak gravitational lensing theory to calculate this angular correlation, updating…

Galaxy color gradients - i.e., spectral energy distributions that vary across the galaxy profile - will impact galaxy shape measurements when the modeled point spread function (PSF) corresponds to that for a galaxy with spatially uniform…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-11 Sowmya Kamath , Joshua E. Meyers , Patricia R. Burchat

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 report on the measurement of the two-point correlation function, and the pairwise peculiar velocity of galaxies in the IRAS PSCz survey. We compute these statistics first in redshift space, and then obtain the projected functions which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Y. P. Jing , G. Boerner , Yasushi Suto

Studying the statistical properties of the large-scale structure in the Universe with weak gravitational lensing is a prime goal of several current and forthcoming galaxy surveys. The power that weak lensing has to constrain cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 Pierre Burger , Oliver Friedrich , Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Peter Schneider

The sensitivity and wide area reached by ongoing and future wide-field optical surveys allows for the detection of an increasing number of galaxy clusters uniquely through their weak lensing (WL) signal. This motivates the development of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-18 G. Leroy , S. Pires , G. W. Pratt , C. Giocoli

Weak gravitational lensing has been used extensively in the past decade to constrain the masses of galaxy clusters, and is the most promising observational technique for providing the mass calibration necessary for precision cosmology with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Rachel Mandelbaum , Uros Seljak , Tobias Baldauf , Robert E. Smith

Shear estimation bias from galaxy detection and blending identification is now recognized as an issue for ongoing and future weak lensing surveys. Currently, the empirical approach to correcting for this bias involves numerically shearing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Xiangchong Li , Rachel Mandelbaum

We use numerical simulations of ray tracing through N-body simulations to investigate weak lensing by large-scale structure. These are needed for testing the analytic predictions of two-point correlators, to set error estimates on them and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bhuvnesh Jain , Uros Seljak , Simon White

One of the most powerful techniques to study the dark sector of the Universe is weak gravitational lensing. In practice, to infer the reduced shear, weak lensing measures galaxy shapes, which are the consequence of both the intrinsic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Sami-Matias Niemi , Thomas Kitching , Mark Cropper

The first step toward doing high-precision astrometry is the measurement of individual stars in individual images, a step that is fraught with dangers when the images are undersampled. The key to avoiding systematic positional error in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-05 Jay Anderson , Ivan R. King

We report the weak lensing measurement of filaments between Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) III/Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) CMASS galaxy pairs at $z\sim0.55$, using the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) first-year galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-27 Hiroto Kondo , Hironao Miyatake , Masato Shirasaki , Naoshi Sugiyama , Atsushi J. Nishizawa

Evolution in the mass function of galaxy clusters sensitively traces both the expansion history of the Universe and cosmological structure formation. Robust cluster mass determinations are a key ingredient for a reliable measurement of this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Holger Israel , Thomas Erben , Thomas H. Reiprich , Alexey Vikhlinin , Craig L. Sarazin , Peter Schneider

In recent years cosmic shear, the weak gravitational lensing effect by the large-scale structure of the Universe, has proven to be one of the observational pillars on which the cosmological concordance model is founded. Several cosmic shear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-03-12 B. Joachimi , P. Schneider , T. Eifler

We present the first step toward deriving cosmological constraints through the abundances of galaxy clusters selected in a $510\,\mathrm{deg}^2$ weak-lensing aperture mass map, constructed with the Year-Three shear catalog from the Hyper…