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We present cosmological constraints from Dark Energy Survey Year 3 (DES Y3) weak lensing data using persistent homology, a topological data analysis technique that tracks how features like clusters and voids evolve across density…

We perform an anisotropic clustering analysis of 1,133,326 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Data Release (DR) 12 covering the redshift range $0.15<z<0.69$. The geometrical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-05 Xiao-Dong Li , Cristiano G. Sabiu , Changbom Park , Yuting Wang , Gong-bo Zhao , Hyunbae Park , Arman Shafieloo , Juhan Kim , Sungwook E. Hong

Since cosmic shear was first observed in 2000, it has become a key cosmological probe and promises to deliver exquisite dark energy constraints. However, shear is inferred from coherent distortions of galaxy shapes, and the relation between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-19 Enya Van den Abeele , Pierre Astier , Anna Niemiec

We show that the abundance and redshift distribution ($dN/dz$) of galaxy clusters in future high--yield cluster surveys, combined with the spatial power spectrum ($P_c(k)$) of the same clusters, can place significant constraints on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Sheng Wang , Justin Khoury , Zoltan Haiman , Morgan May

Aims. We present a cosmic shear analysis and data validation of 15 square degree high-quality R-band data of the Garching-Bonn Deep Survey obtained with the Wide Field Imager of the MPG/ESO 2.2m telescope. Methods. We measure the two-point…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Hetterscheidt , P. Simon , M. Schirmer , H. Hildebrandt , T. Schrabback , T. Erben , P. Schneider

In this third paper of a series on radio weak lensing for cosmology with the Square Kilometre Array, we scrutinise synergies between cosmic shear measurements in the radio and optical/near-IR bands for mitigating systematic effects. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 Stefano Camera , Ian Harrison , Anna Bonaldi , Michael L. Brown

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 consider how upcoming photometric large scale structure surveys can be optimized to measure the properties of dark energy and possible cosmic scale modifications to General Relativity in light of realistic astrophysical and instrumental…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Donnacha Kirk , Istvan Laszlo , Sarah Bridle , Rachel Bean

Optical imaging surveys measure both the galaxy density and the gravitational lensing-induced shear fields across the sky. Recently, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) collaboration used a joint fit to two-point correlations between these…

We study the angular clustering of Quaia, a Gaia- and unWISE-based catalog of over a million quasars with an exceptionally well-defined selection function. With it, we derive cosmology constraints from the amplitude and growth of structure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-06 David Alonso , Giulio Fabbian , Kate Storey-Fisher , Anna-Christina Eilers , Carlos García-García , David W. Hogg , Hans-Walter Rix

With the advent of large-scale weak lensing surveys there is a need to understand how realistic, scale-dependent systematics bias cosmic shear and dark energy measurements, and how they can be removed. Here we describe how spatial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-31 A. N. Taylor , T. D. Kitching

As weak lensing surveys go deeper, there is an increasing need for reliable characterization of non-Gaussian structures at small angular scales. Here we present the first cosmological constraints with weak lensing scattering transform, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-12 Sihao Cheng , Gabriela A. Marques , Daniela Grandón , Leander Thiele , Masato Shirasaki , Brice Ménard , Jia Liu

Beyond-two-point statistics contain additional information on cosmological as well as astrophysical and observational (systematics) parameters. In this methodology paper we provide an end-to-end simulation-based analysis of a set of…

We report a detection of the coherent distortion of faint galaxies arising from gravitational lensing by foreground structures. This ``cosmic shear'' is potentially the most direct measure of the mass power spectrum, as it is unaffected by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 David Bacon , Alexandre Refregier , Richard Ellis

The intrinsic alignment (IA) of galaxies acts as a systematic effect in weak lensing measurements and tends to introduce biases. It mimics the gravitational lensing signal which makes it difficult to distinguish it from the true…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-08 Abinash Das

We use mock galaxy survey simulations designed to resemble the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 (DES Y1) data to validate and inform cosmological parameter estimation. When similar analysis tools are applied to both simulations and real survey…

Intrinsic alignment (IA) of source galaxies is one of the major astrophysical systematics for ongoing and future weak lensing surveys. This paper presents the first forecasts of the impact of IA on cosmic shear measurements for current and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-23 Elisabeth Krause , Tim Eifler , Jonathan Blazek

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

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