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Weak gravitational lensing (WL) causes distortions of galaxy images and probes massive structures on large scales, allowing us to understand the late-time evolution of the Universe. One way to extract the cosmological information from WL is…

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The Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST) aims to map the universe across an unprecedented dynamic range of stellar densities, spanning from extragalactic voids to the crowded Galactic center (e.g. a few stars and galaxies in the…

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Wavelet analysis is proposed as a new tool for studying the large-scale structure formation of the universe. To reveal its usefulness, the wavelet decomposition of one-dimensional cosmological density fluctuations is performed. In contrast…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Yoshi Fujiwara , Jiro Soda

Strong gravitational lensing provides an independent and powerful probe of cosmic expansion by directly linking observables to cosmological distances. Upcoming surveys such as LSST will discover large number of galaxy-galaxy strong lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-05 Shuaibo Geng , Shuo Cao , Marek Biesiada , Xinyue Jiang , Yalong Nan , Chenfa Zheng

Weak lensing by large-scale structure provides a unique method to directly measure matter fluctuations in the universe, and has recently been detected from the ground. Here, we report the first detection of this `cosmic shear' based on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 J. Rhodes , A. Refregier , E. J. Groth

We estimate the sensitivity of future galaxy surveys to cosmological parameters, using the redshift dependent angular power spectra of galaxy number counts, $C_\ell(z_1,z_2)$, calculated with all relativistic corrections at first order in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-04 Enea Di Dio , Francesco Montanari , Ruth Durrer , Julien Lesgourgues

The statistical characterization of the diffuse magnetized ISM and Galactic foregrounds to the CMB poses a major challenge. To account for their non-Gaussian statistics, we need a data analysis approach capable of efficiently quantifying…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Bruno Regaldo-Saint Blancard , François Levrier , Erwan Allys , Elena Bellomi , François Boulanger

We develop a novel statistical strong lensing approach to probe the cosmological parameters by exploiting multiple redshift image systems behind galaxies or galaxy clusters. The method relies on free-form mass inversion of strong lenses and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 M. Lubini , M. Sereno , J. Coles , Ph. Jetzer , P. Saha

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

Strong gravitational lensing provides a wealth of astrophysical information on the baryonic and dark matter content of galaxies. It also serves as a valuable cosmological probe by allowing us to measure the Hubble constant independently of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-31 A. Galan , A. Peel , R. Joseph , F. Courbin , J. -L. Starck

Wavelets have been used extensively for several years now in astronomy for many purposes, ranging from data filtering and deconvolution, to star and galaxy detection or cosmic ray removal. More recent sparse representations such ridgelets…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-20 Jean-Luc Starck , Jerome Bobin

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

In this first paper of a series we develop a new technique to analyze clusters of galaxies observed during the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS). We call this method the Steepness Ratio Technique (SRT). The SRT uses the convolution between the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. De Grandi , S. Molendi , H. Böhringer , G. Chincarini , W. Voges

Large-scale structure (LSS) studies in cosmology map and analyse matter in the Universe on the largest scales. Understanding the LSS can provide observational support for the Cosmological Principle (CP) and the Standard Cosmological Model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-24 Alexia M. Lopez , Roger G. Clowes , Gerard M. Williger

Galaxies are arranged in interconnected walls and filaments forming a cosmic web encompassing huge, nearly empty, regions between the structures. Many statistical methods have been proposed in the past in order to describe the galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 J-L. Starck , V. J. Martinez , D. L. Donoho , O. Levi , P. Querre , E. Saar

Statistical weak lensing by large-scale structure -- cosmic shear -- is a promising cosmological tool, which has motivated the design of several large upcoming surveys. Here, we present a measurement of cosmic shear using coadded Sloan…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-15 Eric M. Huff , Tim Eifler , Christopher M. Hirata , Rachel Mandelbaum , David Schlegel , Uros Seljak

Components of large-scale structure (LSS) of Universe includes galaxy clusters, walls, filaments, groups and field galaxies. The question of spatial organization of all these components remains open despite of a number of recently developed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 A. V. Tugay , N. G. Pulatova , A. D. Zhoga

With the completion of the Planck mission, in order to continue to gather cosmological information it has become crucial to understand the Large Scale Structures (LSS) of the universe to percent accuracy. The Effective Field Theory of LSS…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-23 Raul Angulo , Matteo Fasiello , Leonardo Senatore , Zvonimir Vlah

Cluster-scale strong lensing is a powerful tool for exploring the properties of dark matter and constraining cosmological models. However, due to the complex parameter space, pixelized strong lens modeling in galaxy clusters is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 Yushan Xie , Huanyuan Shan , Nan Li , Ran Li , Eric Jullo , Chen Su , Xiaoyue Cao , Jean-Paul Kneib , Ana Acebron , Mengfan He , Ji Yao , Chunxiang Wang , Jiadong Li , Yin Li