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Determining the distribution of redshifts of galaxies observed by wide-field photometric experiments like the Dark Energy Survey is an essential component to mapping the matter density field with gravitational lensing. In this work we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 J. Myles , A. Alarcon , A. Amon , C. Sánchez , S. Everett , J. DeRose , J. McCullough , D. Gruen , G. M. Bernstein , M. A. Troxel , S. Dodelson , A. Campos , N. MacCrann , B. Yin , M. Raveri , A. Amara , M. R. Becker , A. Choi , J. Cordero , K. Eckert , M. Gatti , G. Giannini , J. Gschwend , R. A. Gruendl , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , E. M. Huff , N. Kuropatkin , H. Lin , D. Masters , R. Miquel , J. Prat , A. Roodman , E. S. Rykoff , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , R. H. Wechsler , B. Yanny , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , S. Bhargava , S. L. Bridle , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , T. F. Eifler , J. Elvin-Poole , A. E. Evrard , I. Ferrero , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , T. Giannantonio , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. Huterer , D. J. James , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , J. Muir , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. A. Plazas , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , S. Samuroff , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , L. F. Secco , S. Serrano , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , T. N. Varga , J. Weller , W. Wester

The galaxy intrinsic alignment causes the galaxy ellipticity-ellipticity power spectrum between two photometric redshifts to decrease faster with respect to the redshift separation $\Delta z^P$, for fixed mean redshift. This offers a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Pengjie Zhang

We introduce a self-calibration method that can be applied to the intrinsic ellipticity--intrinsic ellipticity (II) and gravitational shear -- intrinsic ellipticity (GI) types of intrinsic alignment of galaxies. The method combines previous…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 Ji Yao , Mustapha Ishak , M. A. Troxel

Determining the distribution of redshifts for galaxies in wide-field photometric surveys is essential for robust cosmological studies of weak gravitational lensing. We present the methodology, calibrated redshift distributions, and…

The accurate determination of the true redshift distributions in tomographic bins is critical for cosmological constraints from photometric surveys. The proposed redshift self-calibration method, which utilizes the photometric galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Hui Peng , Yu Yu

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…

We present the calibration of the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 (DES Y1) weak lensing source galaxy redshift distributions from clustering measurements. By cross-correlating the positions of source galaxies with luminous red galaxies selected…

We present the methodology for and detail the implementation of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) 3x2pt DES Year 1 (Y1) analysis, which combines configuration-space two-point statistics from three different cosmological probes: cosmic shear,…

Weak gravitational lensing is one of the most promising cosmological probes to constrain dark matter, dark energy, and the nature of gravity at cosmic scales. Intrinsic alignments (IAs) of galaxies have been recognized as one of the most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-25 Eske M. Pedersen , Ji Yao , Mustapha Ishak , Pengjie Zhang

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 effective redshift distribution $n(z)$ of galaxies is a critical component in the study of weak gravitational lensing. Here, we introduce a new method for determining $n(z)$ for weak lensing surveys based on high-quality redshifts and…

The intrinsic alignment (IA) of galaxies has been shown to be a significant barrier to precision cosmic shear measurements. (Zhang, 2010, ApJ, 720, 1090) proposed a self-calibration technique for the power spectrum to calculate the induced…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. A. Troxel , Mustapha Ishak

We measure the tidal alignment of the major axes of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from the Legacy Imaging Survey and use it to infer the artificial redshift-space distortion signature that will arise from an orientation-dependent,…

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

We present an alternative calibration of the MagLim lens sample redshift distributions from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) first three years of data (Y3). The new calibration is based on a combination of a Self-Organising Maps based scheme…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-20 G. Giannini , A. Alarcon , M. Gatti , A. Porredon , M. Crocce , G. M. Bernstein , R. Cawthon , C. Sánchez , C. Doux , J. Elvin-Poole , M. Raveri , J. Myles , A. Amon , S. Allam , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , E. Baxter , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , J. Blazek , H. Camacho , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , A. Choi , J. Cordero , J. De Vicente , J. DeRose , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , S. Everett , X. Fang , A. Farahi , P. Fosalba , O. Friedrich , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , E. M. Huff , M. Jarvis , E. Krause , N. Kuropatkin , P. Lemos , N. MacCrann , J. McCullough , J. Muir , S. Pandey , J. Prat , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , S. Samuroff , L. F. Secco , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , M. A. Troxel , D. L. Tucker , N. Weaverdyck , B. Yanny , B. Yin , Y. Zhang , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , S. Desai , P. Doel , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , D. Friedel , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , D. W. Gerdes , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , S. Kent , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , C. Lidman , M. Lima , P. Melchior , J. Mena-Fernández , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , R. L. C. Ogando , M. Paterno , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Roodman , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Smith , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , M. Vincenzi

Intrinsic alignment (IA) of galaxies is a challenging source of contamination in the Cosmic shear (GG) signals. The galaxy intrinsic ellipticity-gravitational shear (IG) correlation is generally the most dominant component of such…

Cosmic shear constrains cosmology by exploiting the apparent alignments of pairs of galaxies due to gravitational lensing by intervening mass clumps. However galaxies may become (intrinsically) aligned with each other, and with nearby mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Sarah Bridle , Lindsay King

Intrinsic alignments of galaxies have been shown to contaminate weak gravitational lensing observables on linear scales, $r>$ 10 $h^{-1}$Mpc, but studies of alignments in the non-linear regime have thus far been inconclusive. We present an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-29 Nora Elisa Chisari , Rachel Mandelbaum , Michael A. Strauss , Eric Huff , Neta Bahcall
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