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Weak gravitational lensing is an invaluable tool for understanding fundamental cosmological physics. An unresolved issue in weak lensing cosmology is to accurately reconstruct the lensing convergence $\kappa$ maps from discrete shear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-25 Yuan Shi , Pengjie Zhang , Zeyang Sun , Yihe Wang

Cosmic shear surveys serve as a powerful tool for mapping the underlying matter density field, including non-visible dark matter. A key challenge in cosmic shear surveys is the accurate reconstruction of lensing convergence ($\kappa$) maps…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-27 Yuan Shi , Pengjie Zhang , Furen Deng , Shuren Zhou , Hongbo Cai , Ji Yao , Zeyang Sun

We present KaRMMa, a novel method for performing mass map reconstruction from weak-lensing surveys. We employ a fully Bayesian approach with a physically motivated lognormal prior to sample from the posterior distribution of convergence…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-02 Pier Fiedorowicz , Eduardo Rozo , Supranta S. Boruah , Chihway Chang , Marco Gatti

We present the first application of marked angular power spectra to weak lensing data, using maps from the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam Year 1 (HSC-Y1) survey. Marked convergence fields, constructed by weighting the convergence field with…

We present KaRMMa 2.0, an updated version of the mass map reconstruction code introduced in Fiedorowicz et al. (2022). KaRMMa is a full-sky Bayesian algorithm for reconstructing weak lensing mass maps from shear data. It forward-models the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-25 Pier Fiedorowicz , Eduardo Rozo , Supranta S. Boruah

We present cosmological constraints from the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) first-year weak lensing shear catalogue using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and conventional summary statistics. We crop 19 $3\times3\,\mathrm{{deg}^2}$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Tianhuan Lu , Zoltán Haiman , Xiangchong Li

We update the field-level inference code KARMMA to enable tomographic forward-modelling of shear maps. Our code assumes a lognormal prior on the convergence field, and properly accounts for the cross-covariance in the lensing signal across…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-11 Supranta S. Boruah , Pier Fiedorowicz , Eduardo Rozo

Weak lensing mass-mapping is a useful tool to access the full distribution of dark matter on the sky, but because of intrinsic galaxy ellipticies and finite fields/missing data, the recovery of dark matter maps constitutes a challenging…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Benjamin Remy , Francois Lanusse , Niall Jeffrey , Jia Liu , Jean-Luc Starck , Ken Osato , Tim Schrabback

We present a numerical investigation of nonlinear cluster lens reconstruction using weak lensing mass mapping. Recent advances in imaging and shear estimation have pushed reliable reduced shear measurements closer to cluster cores, making…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-23 Yuan Shi , Li Cui

We introduce the skew-spectrum statistic for weak lensing convergence $\kappa$ maps and test it against state-of-the-art high-resolution all-sky numerical simulations. We perform the analysis as a function of source redshift and smoothing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 D. Munshi , T. Namikawa , T. D. Kitching , J. D. McEwen , F. R. Bouchet

We present the result of searching for clusters of galaxies based on weak gravitational lensing analysis of the $\sim 160$~deg$^2$ area surveyed by Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) as a Subaru Strategic Program. HSC is a new prime focus optical…

We present cosmological constraints derived from peak counts, minimum counts, and the angular power spectrum of the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam first-year (HSC Y1) weak lensing shear catalog. Weak lensing peak and minimum counts contain…

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…

We present and characterize the catalog of galaxy shape measurements that will be used for cosmological weak lensing measurements in the Wide layer of the first year of the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) survey. The catalog covers an area of 136.9…

We use the full-sky ray-tracing weak lensing simulations to generate 2268 mock catalogues for the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) survey first-year shear catalogue. Our mock catalogues take into account various effects as in the real data:…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Masato Shirasaki , Takashi Hamana , Masahiro Takada , Ryuichi Takahashi , Hironao Miyatake

We perform weak lensing tomographic peak studies using the first-year shear data from Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-SSP) survey. The effective area used in our analyses after field selection, mask and boundary exclusions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Xiangkun Liu , Shuo Yuan , Chuzhong Pan , Tianyu Zhang , Qiao Wang , Zuhui Fan

We present a general linear algorithm for measuring the surface mass density 1-\kappa from the observable reduced shear g=\gamma/(1-\kappa) in the strong lensing regime. We show that in general, the observed polarization field can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ue-Li Pen

We present posterior sample redshift distributions for the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program Weak Lensing three-year (HSC Y3) analysis. Using the galaxies' photometry and spatial cross-correlations, we conduct a combined Bayesian…

High precision cosmological distance measurements towards individual objects such as time delay gravitational lenses or type Ia supernovae are affected by weak lensing perturbations by galaxies and groups along the line of sight. In time…

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