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Weak lensing surveys are expected to provide direct measurements of the statistics of the projected dark matter distribution. Most analytical studies of weak lensing statistics have been limited to quasilinear scales as they relied on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dipak Munshi , Bhuvnesh Jain

Weak gravitational lensing provides a unique method to directly map the dark matter in the universe and measure cosmological parameters. Current weak lensing surveys are limited by the atmospheric seeing from the ground and by the small…

Weak gravitational lensing surveys are rapidly becoming important tools to probe directly the mass density fluctuations in the universe and its background dynamics. Earlier studies have shown that it is possible to model the statistics of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Patrick Valageas , Andrew J. Barber , Dipak Munshi

The weak lensing shear signal has been measured numerically in $N$-body simulations at 14 different redshifts ($z_s = 0.1$ to 3.6) and on angular scales of $\theta = 2'$ to 32'. In addition, the data have been validated by analytical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrew J. Barber

We estimate the effects of weak lensing by large-scale density inhomogeneities and long-wavelength gravitational waves upon the polarization properties of electromagnetic radiation as it propagates from cosmologically distant sources.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Gabriela C. Surpi , Diego D. Harari

We consider evidence for deviations from General Relativity (GR) in the growth of large scale structure, using two parameters, $\gamma$ and $\eta$, to quantify the modification. We consider the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect (ISW) in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-10 Rachel Bean

Observations recently suggest $4.4\sigma$ discrepancy between Hubble constant measured locally and that inferred from cosmic microwave background in standard cosmology. Either standard cosmology or local measurement might expect something…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-01 Zhe Chang , Qing-Hua Zhu

Measurements of cosmological parameters via the distance-redshift relation usually rely on models that assume a homogenous universe. It is commonly presumed that the large-scale structure evident in our Universe has a negligible impact on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Radoslaw Wojtak , Tamara M. Davis , Jophiel Wiis

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

Weak gravitational lensing is one of the key probes of the cosmological model, dark energy, and dark matter, providing insight into both the cosmic expansion history and large scale structure growth history. Taking into account a broad…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-12 Sudeep Das , Roland de Putter , Eric V. Linder , Reiko Nakajima

We forecast the impact of weak lensing (WL) cluster mass calibration on the cosmological constraints from the X-ray selected galaxy cluster counts in the upcoming eROSITA survey. We employ a prototype cosmology pipeline to analyze mock…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 Sebastian Grandis , Joseph J. Mohr , Joerg P. Dietrich , Sebastian Bocquet , Alexandro Saro , Matthias Klein , Maria Paulus , Raffaella Capasso

High peaks in weak lensing (WL) maps originate dominantly from the lensing effects of single massive halos. Their abundance is therefore closely related to the halo mass function and thus a powerful cosmological probe. On the other hand,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-24 Shuo Yuan , Xiangkun Liu , Chuzhong Pan , Qiao Wang , Zuhui Fan

In this article we present an analytic calculation of the probability distribution of the magnification of distant sources due to weak gravitational lensing from non-linear scales. We use a realistic description of the non-linear density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 P. Valageas

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

Non-linear evolution of density fluctuations yields secondary anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which are correlated with the same density fluctuations that can be measured by weak lensing (WL) surveys. We study the…

The cosmological interpretation of weak lensing by large-scale structures requires knowledge of the redshift distribution of the source galaxies. Current lensing surveys are often calibrated using external redshift samples which span a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ludovic Van Waerbeke , Martin White , Henk Hoekstra , Catherine Heymans

We explore the sensitivity of weak lensing observables to the expansion history of the universe and to the growth of cosmic structures, as well as the relative contribution of both effects to constraining cosmological parameters. We utilize…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-19 José Manuel Zorrilla Matilla , Zoltán Haiman , Andrea Petri , Toshiya Namikawa

The measurement of shape parameters of sources in astronomical images is usually performed by assuming that the underlying noise is uncorrelated. Spatial noise correlation is however present in practice due to various observational effects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Refregier , S. T. Brown

We investigate the impact of higher-order gravitational lens properties and properties of the background source on our approach to directly infer local lens properties from observables in multiple images of strong gravitationally lensed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-28 Jenny Wagner

We perform a systematic analysis of the effects of photometric redshift uncertainties on weak lensing tomography. We describe the photo-z distribution with a bias and Gaussian scatter that are allowed to vary arbitrarily between intervals…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhaoming Ma , Wayne Hu , Dragan Huterer