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We present a combined cosmic shear analysis of the modeling of line-of-sight distortions on strongly lensed extended arcs and galaxy shape measurements in the COSMOS field. We develop a framework to predict the covariance of strong lensing…

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We investigate the origin of $\Lambda$CDM parameter constraints in weak lensing, with a focus on the Hubble constant. We explain why current cosmic shear data are sensitive to the parameter combination $S_8 \propto \sigma_8 \Omega_m^{0.5}$,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Alex Hall

In this work, we perform a detailed analysis to constrain the Hu-Sawicki \(f(R)\) gravity model, using cosmic shear data from three prominent Stage-III weak lensing surveys: DES-Y3, KiDS-1000, and HSC-Y3. To accurately model the nonlinear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-13 Jiachen Bai , Jun-Qing Xia , Gong-Bo Zhao

Weak lensing by large-scale structure provides a direct measurement of matter fluctuations in the universe. We report a measurement of this `cosmic shear' based on 271 WFPC2 archival images from the Hubble Space Telescope Medium Deep Survey…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-16 A. Refregier , J. Rhodes , E. J. Groth

Weak lensing of galaxies by large scale structure can potentially measure cosmological quantities as accurately as the cosmic microwave background (CMB). However, the relation between observables and fundamental parameters is more complex…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Wayne Hu , Max Tegmark

Upcoming surveys will map the growth of large-scale structure with unprecented precision, improving our understanding of the dark sector of the Universe. Unfortunately, much of the cosmological information is encoded by the small scales,…

Weak gravitational lensing is a powerful probe of cosmology, with second-order shear statistics commonly used to constrain parameters such as the matter density $\Omega_\mathrm{m}$ and the clustering amplitude $S_8$. However, parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-26 Niek Wielders , Laila Linke , Pierre A. Burger , Sven Heydenreich , Lucas Porth , Peter Schneider

Weak Lensing (WL) surveys are reaching unprecedented depths, enabling the investigation of very small angular scales. At these scales, nonlinear gravitational effects lead to higher-order correlations making the matter distribution highly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-01 Divij Sharma , Biwei Dai , Uros Seljak

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

We explore the dependence of weak lensing phenomena on the background cosmology. We first generalise the relation between $P_\psi(\omega)$, the angular power spectrum of the distortion, and the power spectrum of density fluctuations to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Nick Kaiser

We study the ability of weak lensing surveys to detect galaxy clusters and constrain cosmological parameters, in particular the equation of state of dark energy. There are two major sources of noise for weak lensing cluster measurements:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Laura Marian , Gary M. Bernstein

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

Yes! Upcoming galaxy shear surveys have the potential to significantly improve our understanding of dark energy and neutrino mass if lensing systematics can be sufficiently controlled. The cross-correlations between the weak lensing shear,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-12 Sudeep Das , Josquin Errard , David Spergel

We present the current status of cosmic shear studies and their implications on cosmological models. Theoretical expectations and observational results are discussed in the framework of standard cosmology and CDM scenarios. The potentials…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Y. Mellier , L. van Waerbeke , F. Bernardeau , I. Tereno

Cosmological information from weak lensing surveys is maximised by dividing source galaxies into tomographic sub-samples for which the redshift distributions are estimated. Uncertainties on these redshift distributions must be correctly…

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

Future weak lensing surveys will directly probe the clustering of dark matter, in addition to providing a test for various cosmological models. Recent studies have provided us with the tools which can be used to construct the complete…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dipak Munshi , Yun Wang

Weak lensing galaxy surveys are currently undergoing a dramatic revolution as the dawn of the Stage-IV surveys are upon us. Hence, ensuring that our analysis methods are as accurate and precise as the raw data is of upmost importance. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-24 Alessandro Maraio

Stage-IV photometric galaxy surveys are designed to measure the position and shapes of billions of galaxies. Their aim is to characterise the large-scale distribution of matter in the Universe using galaxy clustering and weak gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-05 Pierre Fleury , Daniel Johnson , Théo Duboscq , Natalie B. Hogg , Julien Larena

We discuss the synergy of the cosmic shear and CMB lensing experiments to simultaneously constrain the neutrino mass and dark energy properties. Taking fully account of the CMB lensing, cosmic shear, CMB anisotropies, and their cross…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-21 Toshiya Namikawa , Shun Saito , Atsushi Taruya