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We present cosmological parameter measurements from the Deep Lens Survey (DLS) using galaxy-mass and galaxy-galaxy power spectra in the multipole range $\ell=250\sim2000$. We measure galaxy-galaxy power spectra from two lens bins centered…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Mijin Yoon , M. James Jee , J. Anthony Tyson , Samuel Schmidt , David Wittman , Ami Choi

We analyse the low--multipole components of the weak-lensing convergence field in a FLRW universe. The low--multipole convergence field, encodes the largest-angle coherent potential gradients, essential for assessment of large-angle…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Albert Bonnefous , Roya Mohayaee

Weak gravitational lensing convergence peaks, the local maxima in weak lensing convergence maps, have been shown to contain valuable cosmological information complementary to commonly used two-point statistics. To exploit the full power of…

The next generation of weak lensing probes can place strong constraints on cosmological parameters by measuring the mass distribution and geometry of the low redshift universe. We show that a future all-sky tomographic cosmic shear survey…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Ivan Debono

We present a comprehensive full-sky 3-dimensional analysis of the weak-lensing fields and their corresponding power spectra. Using the formalism of spin-weight spherical harmonics and spherical Bessel functions, we relate the two-point…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. G. Castro , A. F. Heavens , T. D. Kitching

The next generation of weak lensing surveys will measure the matter distribution of the local Universe with unprecedented precision, allowing the resolution of non-Gaussian features of the convergence field. This encourages the use of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-17 Dominik Zürcher , Janis Fluri , Virginia Ajani , Silvan Fischbacher , Alexandre Refregier , Tomasz Kacprzak

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

It has long been known that galaxy shapes align coherently with the large-scale density field. Characterizing this effect is essential to interpreting measurements of weak gravitational lensing, the deflection of light from distant galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-17 Sukhdeep Singh , Ali Shakir , Yesukhei Jagvaral , Rachel Mandelbaum

We present the methodology for a joint cosmological analysis of weak gravitational lensing from the fourth data release of the ESO Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-1000) and galaxy clustering from the partially overlapping BOSS and 2dFLenS surveys.…

Metacalibration is a recently introduced method to accurately measure weak gravitational lensing shear using only the available imaging data, without need for prior information about galaxy properties or calibration from simulations. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 Erin S. Sheldon , Eric M. Huff

The field of weak gravitational lensing, which measures the basic properties of the Universe by studying the way that light from distant galaxies is perturbed as it travels towards us, is a very active field in astronomy. This short article…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-17 Adam Amara

We investigate the synergy of upcoming galaxy surveys and gravitational wave (GW) experiments in constraining late-time cosmology, examining the cross-correlations between the weak lensing of gravitational waves (GW-WL) and the galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Anna Balaudo , Alice Garoffolo , Matteo Martinelli , Suvodip Mukherjee , Alessandra Silvestri

Now that weak lensing signals on the order of a percent are actively being searched for (cosmic shear, galaxy-galaxy lensing, large radii in clusters...) it is important to investigate how accurately weak shears can be determined. Many…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 K. Kuijken

A cosmic shear survey, spanning a significant proportion of the sky, should greatly improve constraints on a number of cosmological parameters. It also provides a unique opportunity to examine the matter power spectrum directly. However,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fergus Simpson

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

We apply a mass reconstruction technique to simulated large-scale structure gravitational distortion maps, from 2.5' to 10 degree scales, for different cosmological scenarii. The projected mass is reconstructed using a non-parametric least…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Van Waerbeke , F. Bernardeau , Y. Mellier

We describe a new method for measuring galaxy magnification due to weak gravitational lensing. Our method makes use of a tight scaling relation between galaxy properties that are modified by gravitational lensing, such as apparent size, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-07 Eric M. Huff , Genevieve J. Graves

Modifications of the matter power spectrum due to baryonic physics are one of the major theoretical uncertainties in cosmological weak lensing measurements. Developing robust mitigation schemes for this source of systematic uncertainty…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Hung-Jin Huang , Tim Eifler , Rachel Mandelbaum , Scott Dodelson

I discuss the use of cross correlations between galaxies with distance information and projected weak lensing dark matter maps to obtain a fully three dimensional dark matter map and power spectrum. On large scales l<100 one expects the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ue-Li Pen