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We study the clustering of galaxies detected at $i<22.5$ in the Science Verification observations of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). Two-point correlation functions are measured using $2.3\times 10^6$ galaxies over a contiguous 116 deg$^2$…

The shear measurement from DECaLS (Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey) provides an excellent opportunity for galaxy-galaxy lensing study with DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) galaxies, given the large ($\sim 9000$ deg$^2$) sky…

Probabilistic cross-identification has been successfully applied to a number of problems in astronomy from matching simple point sources to associating stars with unknown proper motions and even radio observations with realistic morphology.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-30 Neil Mallinar , Tamas Budavari , Gerard Lemson

We present an image-based method for comparing the structural properties of galaxies produced in hydrodynamical simulations to real galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The key feature of our work is the introduction of extensive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-09 Connor Bottrell , Paul Torrey , Luc Simard , Sara L. Ellison

Bulge-disk (B-D) decomposition is an effective diagnostic to characterize the galaxy morphology and understand its evolution across time. So far, high-quality data have allowed detailed B-D decomposition to redshift below 0.5, with limited…

We perform a joint analysis of the abundance, the clustering and the galaxy-galaxy lensing signal of galaxies measured from Data Release 11 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (SDSS III-BOSS) in our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Surhud More , Hironao Miyatake , Rachel Mandelbaum , Masahiro Takada , David Spergel , Joel Brownstein , Donald P. Schneider

We use numerical simulations to characterize the performance of a clustering-based method to calibrate photometric redshift biases. In particular, we cross-correlate the weak lensing (WL) source galaxies from the Dark Energy Survey Year 1…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 M. Gatti , P. Vielzeuf , C. Davis , R. Cawthon , M. M. Rau , J. DeRose , J. De Vicente , A. Alarcon , E. Rozo , E. Gaztanaga , B. Hoyle , R. Miquel , G. M. Bernstein , C. Bonnett , A. Carnero Rosell , F. J. Castander , C. Chang , L. N. da Costa , D. Gruen , J. Gschwend , W. G. Hartley , H. Lin , N. MacCrann , M. A. G. Maia , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Roodman , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. A. Troxel , R. H. Wechsler , J. Asorey , T. M. Davis , K. Glazebrook , S. R. Hinton , G. Lewis , C. Lidman , E. Macaulay , A. Möller , C. R. O'Neill , N. E. Sommer , S. A. Uddin , F. Yuan , B. Zhang , T. M. C. Abbott , S. Allam , J. Annis , K. Bechtol , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , D. Carollo , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , T. F. Eifler , A. E. Evrard , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , D. W. Gerdes , D. A. Goldstein , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , K. Honscheid , J. K. Hoormann , B. Jain , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , T. Jeltema , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , N. Kuropatkin , T. S. Li , M. Lima , J. L. Marshall , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , A. A. Plazas , K. Reil , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , E. Sheldon , M. Smith , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , B. E. Tucker , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , J. Weller , W. Wester , R. C. Wolf

The number density and correlation function of galaxies are two key quantities to characterize the distribution of the observed galaxy population. High-$z$ spectroscopic surveys, which usually involve complex target selection and are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-05 Jiacheng Meng , Cheng Li , Houjun Mo , Yangyao Chen , Kai Wang

The future Rubin Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is expected to deliver its first data release in the current of 2025. The upcoming survey will provide us with images of galaxy clusters in the optical to the near-infrared, with…

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Obtaining accurately calibrated redshift distributions of photometric samples is one of the great challenges in photometric surveys like LSST, Euclid, HSC, KiDS, and DES. We present an inference methodology that combines the redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-09 M. M. Rau , C. B. Morrison , S. J. Schmidt , S. Wilson , R. Mandelbaum , Y. Y. Mao

We explore the usefulness of future gravitational microlensing surveys in the study of binary properties such as the binary fraction and the distributions of binary separation and mass ratio by using the binary sample detectable through a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Cheongho Han

Future weak lensing surveys will directly probe the density fluctuation in the universe. Recent studies have shown how the statistics of the weak lensing convergence field is related to the statistics of collapsed objects. Extending earlier…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dipak Munshi

Context. Weak lensing and clustering statistics beyond two-point functions can capture non-Gaussian information about the matter density field, thereby improving the constraints on cosmological parameters relative to the mainstream methods…

We present a new technique for overcoming confusion noise in deep far-infrared \Herschel space telescope images making use of prior information from shorter $\lambda<2$\micron wavelengths. For the deepest images obtained by \Herschels, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Mohammadtaher Safarzadeh , Henry C. Ferguson , Yu Lu , Hanae Inami , Rachel S. Somerville

Flagship near-future surveys targeting $10^8-10^9$ galaxies across cosmic time will soon reveal the processes of galaxy assembly in unprecedented resolution. This creates an immediate computational challenge on effective analyses of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-03 Bingjie Wang , Joel Leja , V. Ashley Villar , Joshua S. Speagle

We propose a new technique, which we call the lens parallax method, to determine simultaneously the redshift distribution of the faint blue galaxies and the mass distribution of foreground clusters of galaxies. The method is based on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ramesh Narayan , Matthias Bartelmann

Galaxy clusters are powerful probes of the growth of cosmic structure through measurements of their abundance as a function of mass and redshift. Extracting precise cosmological constraints from cluster surveys is challenging, as we must…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-25 Constantin Payerne , Calum Murray , Hugo Simon

Modern sky surveys produce vast amounts of observational data, making the application of classical methods for estimating galaxy properties challenging and time-consuming. This challenge can be significantly alleviated by employing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-17 Olena Torbaniuk , Lars Doorenbos , Maurizio Paolillo , Stefano Cavuoti , Massimo Brescia , Giuseppe Longo

Eclipsing binaries provide one of the most direct mechanisms for measuring stellar properties such as mass and radius, but historically, determining these properties has been non-trivial and computationally prohibitive. As such, only a…

WL measurements have well-known shear estimation biases, which can be partially corrected for with the use of image simulations. We present an analysis of simulated images that mimic HST/ACS observations of high-redshift galaxy clusters,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 B. Hernandez-Martin , T. Schrabback , H. Hoekstra , N. Martinet , J. Hlavacek-Larrondo , L. E. Bleem , M. D. Gladders , B. Stalder , A. A. Stark , M. Bayliss