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Galaxy cluster matter profiles: I. Self-similarity, mass calibration, and observable-mass relation validation employing cluster mass posteriors

We present a study of the weak lensing inferred matter profiles $\Delta\Sigma(R)$ of 698 South Pole Telescope thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect selected and MCMF optically confirmed galaxy clusters in the redshift range $0.25 <z< 0.94$ that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-25 A. Singh , J. J. Mohr , C. T. Davies , S. Bocquet , S. Grandis , M. Klein , J. L. Marshall , M. Aguena , S. S. Allam , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , D. Bacon , S. Bhargava , D. Brooks , A. Carnero Rosell , J. Carretero , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , S. Everett , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , M. Lima , J. Mena-Fernández , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. Myles , A. Pieres , A. K. Romer , S. Samuroff , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Smith , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , C. To , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , N. Weaverdyck , P. Wiseman

The COSMOS Density Field: A Reconstruction Using Both Weak Lensing and Galaxy Distributions

The COSMOS field has been the subject of a wide range of observations, with a number of studies focusing on reconstructing the 3D dark matter density field. Typically, these studies have focused on one given method or tracer. In this paper,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 A. Amara , S. Lilly , K. Kovac , J. Rhodes , R. Massey , G. Zamorani , C. M. Carollo , T. Contini , J. -P. Kneib , O. Le Fevre , V. Mainieri , A. Renzini , M. Scodeggio , S. Bardelli , M. Bolzonella , A. Bongiorno , K. Caputi , O. Cucciati , S. de la Torre , L. de Ravel , P. Franzetti , B. Garilli , A. Iovino , P. Kampczyk , C. Knobel , F. Lamareille , J. -F. Le Borgne , V. Le Brun , C. Maier , M. Mignoli , R. Pello , Y. Peng , E. Perez Montero , V. Presotto , J. Silverman , M. Tanaka , L. Tasca , L. Tresse , D. Vergani , E. Zucca , L. Barnes , R. Bordoloi , A. Cappi , A. Cimatti , G. Coppa , A. Koekoemoer , C. Lopez-Sanjuan , H. J. McCracken , M. Moresco , P. Nair , L. Pozzetti , N. Welikala

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Galaxy clustering for combined probes

We measure the clustering of DES Year 1 galaxies that are intended to be combined with weak lensing samples in order to produce precise cosmological constraints from the joint analysis of large-scale structure and lensing correlations.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 J. Elvin-Poole , M. Crocce , A. J. Ross , T. Giannantonio , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , S. Avila , N. Banik , J. Blazek , S. L. Bridle , R. Cawthon , A. Drlica-Wagner , O. Friedrich , N. Kokron , E. Krause , N. MacCrann , J. Prat , C. Sanchez , L. F. Secco , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. A. Troxel , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , J. Annis , J. Asorey , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , A. Benoit-Levy , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , D. Carollo , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. E. Cunha , C. B. DAndrea , L. N. da Costa , T. M. Davis , C. Davis , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , T. F. Eifler , A. E. Evrard , E. Fernandez , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. Garcia-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , K. Glazebrook , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , S. R. Hinton , K. Honscheid , J. K. Hoormann , B. Jain , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , T. Jeltema , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , A. King , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , G. Lewis , T. S. Li , C. Lidman , M. Lima , H. Lin , E. Macaulay , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , A. Moller , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , C. R. ONeill , W. J. Percival , D. Petravick , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , E. Sheldon , M. Smith , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , N. E. Sommer , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , B. E. Tucker , D. L. Tucker , S. A. Uddin , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , R. H. Wechsler , J. Weller , W. Wester , R. C. Wolf , F. Yuan , B. Zhang , J. Zuntz

Cosmology from Cross-Correlation of ACT-DR4 CMB Lensing and DES-Y3 Cosmic Shear

Cross-correlation between weak lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and weak lensing of galaxies offers a way to place robust constraints on cosmological and astrophysical parameters with reduced sensitivity to certain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-17 S. Shaikh , I. Harrison , A. van Engelen , G. A. Marques , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , O. Alves , A. Amon , R. An , D. Bacon , N. Battaglia , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , J. Blazek , J. R. Bond , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , E. Calabrese , A. Carnero Rosell , J. Carretero , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , R. Chen , A. Choi , S. K. Choi , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , O. Darwish , T. M. Davis , S. Desai , M. Devlin , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , C. Doux , J. Elvin-Poole , G. S. Farren , S. Ferraro , I. Ferrero , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , M. Gatti , G. Giannini , S. Giardiello , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , J. C. Hill , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , K. M. Huffenberger , D. Huterer , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , N. Jeffrey , H. T. Jense , K. Knowles , J. Kim , D. Kramer , O. Lahav , S. Lee , M. Lima , N. MacCrann , M. S. Madhavacheril , J. L. Marshall , J. McCullough , Y. Mehta , J. Mena-Fernández , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , K. Moodley , J. Myles , A. Navarro-Alsina , L. Newburgh , M. D. Niemack , Y. Omori , S. Pandey , B. Partridge , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Porredon , J. Prat , F. J. Qu , N. Robertson , R. P. Rollins , A. Roodman , S. Samuroff , C. Sánchez , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , L. F. Secco , N. Sehgal , E. Sheldon , B. D. Sherwin , T. Shin , C. Sifón M. Smith , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , M. A. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , C. Vargas , N. Weaverdyck , P. Wiseman , M. Yamamoto , J. Zuntz

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Redshift Calibration of the MagLim++ Lens Sample

In this work, we derive and calibrate the redshift distribution of the MagLim++ lens galaxy sample used in the Dark Energy Survey Year 6 (DES Y6) 3x2pt cosmology analysis. The 3x2pt analysis combines galaxy clustering from the lens galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-10 G. Giannini , A. Alarcon , W. d'Assignies , G. M. Bernstein , M. A. Troxel , C. Chang , B. Yin , A. Amon , J. Myles , N. Weaverdyck , A. Porredon , D. Anbajagane , S. Avila , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , J. Blazek , M. Crocce , D. Gruen , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , C. Sánchez , D. Sanchez Cid , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Aguena , S. Allam , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , D. Bacon , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , R. Camilleri , A. Carnero Rosell , J. Carretero , R. Cawthon , L. N. da Costa , M. E. da Silva Pereira , T. M. Davis , J. De Vicente , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , A. E. Evrard , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , P. Giles , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , K. Herner , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , S. Lee , H. Lin , J. L. Marshall , J. Mena-Fernández , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. Muir , R. L. C. Ogando , D. Petravick , A. A. Plazas Malagón , J. Prat , M. Raveri , E. S. Rykoff , S. Samuroff , E. Sanchez , T. Shin , M. Smith , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , M. Yamamoto

Systematic errors in weak lensing: application to SDSS galaxy-galaxy weak lensing

Weak lensing is emerging as a powerful observational tool to constrain cosmological models, but is at present limited by an incomplete understanding of many sources of systematic error. Many of these errors are multiplicative and depend on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rachel Mandelbaum , Christopher M. Hirata , Uros Seljak , Jacek Guzik , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Cullen Blake , Michael R. Blanton , Robert Lupton , Jonathan Brinkmann

Source-lens clustering effects on the skewness of the lensing convergence

The correlation between source galaxies and lensing potentials causes a systematic effect on measurements of cosmic shear statistics, known as the source-lens clustering (SLC) effect. The SLC effect on the skewness of lensing convergence,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Takashi Hamana , Stephane T. Colombi , Aurelien Thion , Julien E. G. T. Devriendt , Yannick Mellier , Francis Bernardeau

Weak Lensing Calibrated M-T Scaling Relation of Galaxy Groups in the COSMOS Field

The scaling between X-ray observables and mass for galaxy clusters and groups is instrumental for cluster based cosmology and an important probe for the thermodynamics of the intracluster gas. We calibrate a scaling relation between the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Kimmo Kettula , Alexis Finoguenov , Richard Massey , Jason Rhodes , Henk Hoekstra , James E. Taylor , Patrícia F. Spinelli , Masayuki Tanaka , Olivier Ilbert , Peter Capak , Henry J. McCracken , Anton M. Koekemoer

Weak-lensing mass calibration of redMaPPer galaxy clusters in Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data

We use weak-lensing shear measurements to determine the mean mass of optically selected galaxy clusters in Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data. In a blinded analysis, we split the sample of more than 8,000 redMaPPer clusters into…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 P. Melchior , D. Gruen , T. McClintock , T. N. Varga , E. Sheldon , E. Rozo , A. Amara , M. R. Becker , B. A. Benson , A. Bermeo , S. L. Bridle , J. Clampitt , J. P. Dietrich , W. G. Hartley , D. Hollowood , B. Jain , M. Jarvis , T. Jeltema , T. Kacprzak , N. MacCrann , E. S. Rykoff , A. Saro , E. Suchyta , M. A. Troxel , J. Zuntz , C. Bonnett , A. A. Plazas , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , J. Annis , A. Benoit-Lévy , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , S. Desai , T. F. Eifler , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , D. Kirk , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , P. Martini , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. C. Nichol , R. Ogando , A. K. Romer , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , A. R. Walker , J. Weller , Y. Zhang

Cross-correlation Weak Lensing of SDSS Galaxy Clusters I: Measurements

This is the first in a series of papers on the weak lensing effect caused by clusters of galaxies in Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The photometrically selected cluster sample, known as MaxBCG, includes ~130,000 objects between redshift 0.1 and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-24 Erin S. Sheldon , David E. Johnston , Ryan Scranton , Ben P. Koester , Timothy A. McKay , Hiroaki Oyaizu , Carlos Cunha , Marcos Lima , Huan Lin , Joshua A. Frieman , Risa H. Wechsler , James Annis , Rachel Mandelbaum , Neta A. Bahcall , Masataka Fukugita

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: High-precision measurement and modeling of galaxy-galaxy lensing

We present and characterize the galaxy-galaxy lensing signal measured using the first three years of data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES Y3) covering 4132 deg$^2$. These galaxy-galaxy measurements are used in the DES Y3 3$\times$2pt…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-11 J. Prat , J. Blazek , C. Sánchez , I. Tutusaus , S. Pandey , J. Elvin-Poole , E. Krause , M. A. Troxel , L. F. Secco , A. Amon , J. DeRose , G. Zacharegkas , C. Chang , B. Jain , N. MacCrann , Y. Park , E. Sheldon , G. Giannini , S. Bocquet , C. To , A. Alarcon , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , E. Baxter , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , H. Camacho , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , R. Cawthon , R. Chen , A. Choi , J. Cordero , M. Crocce , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , T. F. Eifler , F. Elsner , S. Everett , X. Fang , A. Farahi , A. Ferté , P. Fosalba , O. Friedrich , M. Gatti , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , H. Huang , E. M. Huff , D. Huterer , M. Jarvis , N. Kuropatkin , P. -F. Leget , P. Lemos , A. R. Liddle , J. McCullough , J. Muir , J. Myles , A. Navarro-Alsina , A. Porredon , M. Raveri , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , R. P. Rollins , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , J. Sanchez , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , T. Shin , A. Troja , T. N. Varga , N. Weaverdyck , R. H. Wechsler , B. Yanny , B. Yin , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , D. Bacon , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. Carretero , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , S. Desai , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , A. E. Evrard , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , D. Petravick , A. A. Plazas Malagón , E. Sanchez , S. Serrano , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , J. Weller

Improved Weak Lensing Photometric Redshift Calibration via StratLearn and Hierarchical Modeling

Discrepancies between cosmological parameter estimates from cosmic shear surveys and from recent Planck cosmic microwave background measurements challenge the ability of the highly successful $\Lambda$CDM model to describe the nature of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-06 Maximilian Autenrieth , Angus H. Wright , Roberto Trotta , David A. van Dyk , David C. Stenning , Benjamin Joachimi

Constraining Source Redshift Distributions with Gravitational Lensing

We introduce a new method for constraining the redshift distribution of a set of galaxies, using weak gravitational lensing shear. Instead of using observed shears and redshifts to constrain cosmological parameters, we ask how well the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 D. Wittman , W. A. Dawson

Exploring Cosmological Constraints of the Void-Lensing Cross-Correlation in the CSST Photometric Survey

We investigate the cosmological constraints from the void-lensing cross-correlation assuming the $w$CDM model for the Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST) photometric survey. Using Jiutian simulations, we construct a mock galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-19 Qi Xiong , Yan Gong , Junhui Yan , Furen Deng , Hengjie Lin , Xingchen Zhou , Xuelei Chen , Qi Guo , Ming Li , Yun Liu , Wenxiang Pei

Weak lensing analysis of SZ-selected clusters of galaxies from the SPT and Planck surveys

We present the weak lensing analysis of the Wide-Field Imager SZ Cluster of galaxy (WISCy) sample, a set of 12 clusters of galaxies selected for their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. After developing new and improved methods for background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 D. Gruen , S. Seitz , F. Brimioulle , R. Kosyra , J. Koppenhoefer , C. -H. Lee , R. Bender , A. Riffeser , T. Eichner , T. Weidinger , M. Bierschenk

Weak Lensing Measurement of the Mass--Richness Relation of SDSS redMaPPer Clusters

We perform a measurement of the mass--richness relation of the redMaPPer galaxy cluster catalogue using weak lensing data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We have carefully characterized a broad range of systematic uncertainties,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Melanie Simet , Tom McClintock , Rachel Mandelbaum , Eduardo Rozo , Eli Rykoff , Erin Sheldon , Risa H. Wechsler

AMICO galaxy clusters in KiDS-DR3: cosmological constraints from large-scale stacked weak lensing profiles

Context. The large-scale mass distribution around dark matter haloes hosting galaxy clusters provides sensitive cosmological information. Aims. In this work, we make use of a large photometric galaxy cluster sample, constructed from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Carlo Giocoli , Federico Marulli , Lauro Moscardini , Mauro Sereno , Alfonso Veropalumbo , Lorenzo Gigante , Matteo Maturi , Mario Radovich , Fabio Bellagamba , Mauro Roncarelli , Sandro Bardelli , Sofia Contarini , Giovanni Covone , Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Lorenzo Ingoglia , Giorgio F. Lesci , Lorenza Nanni , Emanuella Puddu

Weak lensing measurements of the APEX-SZ galaxy cluster sample

We present a weak lensing analysis for galaxy clusters from the APEX-SZ survey. For $39$ massive galaxy clusters that were observed via the Sunyaev-Zel\textquotesingle dovich effect (SZE) with the APEX telescope, we analyse deep optical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-28 Matthias Klein , Holger Israel , Aarti Nagarajan , Frank Bertoldi , Florian Pacaud , Adrian T. Lee , Martin Sommer , Kaustuv Basu

Weak lensing calibration of mass bias in the REFLEX+BCS X-ray galaxy cluster catalogue

The use of large, X-ray selected galaxy cluster catalogues for cosmological analyses requires a thorough understanding of the X-ray mass estimates. Weak gravitational lensing is an ideal method to shed light on such issues, due to its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Melanie Simet , Nicholas Battaglia , Rachel Mandelbaum , Uroš Seljak

A measurement of weak lensing by large scale structure in RCS fields

We have analysed ~24 square degrees of R_C-band imaging data from the Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS), and measured the excess correlations between galaxy ellipticities on scales ranging from 1 to 30 arcminutes. We have used data from two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Henk Hoekstra , Howard K. C. Yee , Michael D. Gladders , L. Felipe Barrientos , Patrick B. Hall , Leopoldo Infante