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The amplitude of weak lensing should increase with source distance, rising steeply behind a lens and saturating at high redshift, providing a model-independent means of measuring cosmic geometry. We measure the amplitude of weak lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Elinor Medezinski , Tom Broadhurst , Keiichi Umetsu , Narciso Benitez , Andy Taylor

We study the time variation of the apparent flux of cosmological point sources due to the transient weak lensing by dark matter microhaloes. Assuming a transverse motion of microhaloes with respect to our line of sight, we derive the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Sohrab Rahvar , Shant Baghram , Niayesh Afshordi

Weak gravitational lensing of distant galaxies can probe the total projected mass distribution of foreground gravitational structures on all scales and has been used successfully to map the projected mass distribution of rich intermediate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Van Waerbeke , Y. Mellier

Weak gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for studying both the geometry and the dynamics of the Universe. Its power spectrum contains information on the sources emitting photons and on the large--scale structures that these hotons…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 Stefano Camera , Daniele Bertacca , Antonaldo Diaferio , Nicola Bartolo , Sabino Matarrese

Evolution in the mass function of galaxy clusters sensitively traces both the expansion history of the Universe and cosmological structure formation. Robust cluster mass determinations are a key ingredient for a reliable measurement of this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Holger Israel , Thomas Erben , Thomas H. Reiprich , Alexey Vikhlinin , Craig L. Sarazin , Peter Schneider

We propose counting peaks in weak lensing (WL) maps, as a function of their height, to probe models of dark energy and to constrain cosmological parameters. Because peaks can be identified in two-dimensional WL maps directly, they can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Jan M. Kratochvil , Zoltán Haiman , Morgan May

Weak gravitational lensing is an important tool to estimate the masses of galaxy clusters, as it allows us to directly access their projected surface mass density along the line-of-sight (LOS) in a manner largely independent of their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-13 Constantin Payerne , Corentin Hanser , Calum Murray , Nathan Amouroux , Céline Combet

We study the power of upcoming weak lensing surveys to probe dark energy. Dark energy modifies the distance-redshift relation as well as the matter power spectrum, both of which affect the weak lensing convergence power spectrum. Some…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Dragan Huterer

In this paper we present weak lensing observations of the fields around 8 z~1 luminous radio sources. These data are searched for the lensing signatures of clusters that are either physically associated with the radio objects, or are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Richard G. Bower , Ian Smail

Future weak lensing surveys will directly probe the clustering of dark matter, in addition to providing a test for various cosmological models. Recent studies have provided us with the tools which can be used to construct the complete…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dipak Munshi , Yun Wang

Future experiments will produce high-resolution temperature maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and are expected to reveal the signature of gravitational lensing by intervening large-scale structures. We construct all-sky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Christopher M. Hirata , Uros Seljak

Lensing studies are typically carried out around high density regions, such as groups and clusters, where the lensing signals are significant and indicative of rich density structures. However, a more comprehensive test of the cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-04 Yiqi Huang , Fuyu Dong , Jun Zhang , Cong Liu , Hekun Li

Low density regions are less affected by the nonlinear structure formation and baryonic physics. They are ideal places for probing the nature of dark energy, a possible explanation for the cosmic acceleration. Unlike void lensing, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-12 Fuyu Dong , Jun Zhang , Yu Yu , Xiaohu Yang , Hekun Li , Jiaxin Han , Wentao Luo , Jiajun Zhang , Liping Fu

Weak gravitational lensing (WL) has been established as one of the most promising probes of cosmology. So far, most studies have exploited the shear effect of WL leading to coherent distortions of galaxy shapes. But WL also introduces…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 H. Hildebrandt , L. van Waerbeke , T. Erben

We present the first weak gravitational lensing analysis of the completed Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey (CFHTLS). We study the 64 square degrees W1 field, the largest of the CFHTLS-Wide survey fields, and present the largest…

The cosmic dipole observed in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is traditionally interpreted as being caused by the observer's motion relative to the background. However, tensions with dipole measurements from radio galaxy counts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Anson Chen , Jun Zhang

The possibility of detecting weak lensing effects from deep wide field imaging surveys has open new means of probing the large-scale structures of the Universe and measuring cosmological parameters. In this paper we present a systematic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 F. Bernardeau , L. van Waerbeke , Y. Mellier

Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a powerful probe to study the early universe and various cosmological models. Weak gravitational lensing affects the CMB by changing its power spectrum, but meanwhile, it also carries information about…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-09 Chandra Shekhar Saraf

We investigate weak lensing effect on cosmic microwave background (CMB) in the presence of dipole anisotropy. The approach of flat-sky approximation is considered. We determine the functions $\sigma_0^2$ and $\sigma_2^2$ that appear in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 Abhineet Agarwal , Naveen K. Singh , Pankaj Jain , Prabhakar Tiwari