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We cross-correlate galaxy weak lensing measurements from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) year-one (Y1) data with a cosmic microwave background (CMB) weak lensing map derived from South Pole Telescope (SPT) and Planck data, with an effective…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Y. Omori , E. Baxter , C. Chang , D. Kirk , A. Alarcon , G. M. Bernstein , L. E. Bleem , R. Cawthon , A. Choi , R. Chown , T. M. Crawford , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , J. DeRose , S. Dodelson , T. F. Eifler , P. Fosalba , O. Friedrich , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , T. Giannantonio , D. Gruen , W. G. Hartley , G. P. Holder , B. Hoyle , D. Huterer , B. Jain , M. Jarvis , E. Krause , N. MacCrann , R. Miquel , J. Prat , M. M. Rau , C. L. Reichardt , E. Rozo , S. Samuroff , C. Sánchez , L. F. Secco , E. Sheldon , G. Simard , M. A. Troxel , P. Vielzeuf , R. H. Wechsler , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , J. Annis , S. Avila , K. Aylor , B. A. Benson , E. Bertin , S. L. Bridle , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. E. Carlstrom , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. L. Chang , H-M. Cho , A. T. Crites , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , L. N. da Costa , T. de Haan , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , M. A. Dobbs , W. B. Everett , E. Fernandez , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. M. George , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , N. W. Halverson , N. L. Harrington , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , W. L. Holzapfel , Z. Hou , J. D. Hrubes , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , M. Lima , H. Lin , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , D. Luong-Van , M. A. G. Maia , A. Manzotti , D. P. Marrone , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , J. J. McMahon , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , S. S. Meyer , L. M. Mocanu , J. J. Mohr , T. Natoli , R. L. C. Ogando , S. Padin , A. A. Plazas , C. Pryke , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , J. E. Ruhl , E. S. Rykoff , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , K. K. Schaffer , R. Schindler , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Shirokoff , M. Smith , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , K. T. Story , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , J. Weller , R. Williamson , W. L. K. Wu , O. Zahn

Weak lensing convergence can be used directly to map and probe the dark mass distribution in the universe. Building on earlier studies, we recall how the statistics of the convergence field are related to the statistics of the underlying…

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

The CMB lensing signal from cosmic voids and superclusters probes the growth of structure in the low-redshift cosmic web. In this analysis, we cross-correlated the Planck CMB lensing map with voids detected in the Dark Energy Survey Year 3…

Cosmology from weak gravitational lensing has been limited by astrophysical uncertainties in baryonic feedback and intrinsic alignments. By calibrating these effects using external data, we recover non-linear information, achieving a 2%…

Weak gravitational lensing causes subtle changes in the apparent shapes of galaxies due to the bending of light by the gravity of foreground masses. By measuring the shapes of large numbers of galaxies (millions in recent surveys, up to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-08 Yuki Okura , Andrea Petri , Morgan May , Andrés A. Plazas , Toru Tamagawa

We use weak lensing shear measurements of six z>0.5 clusters of galaxies to derive the mean lensing redshift of the background galaxies used to measure the shear. Five of these clusters are compared to X-ray mass models and verify a mean…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Clowe , G. Luppino , N. Kaiser

We use weak gravitational lensing to analyse the dark matter halos around satellite galaxies in galaxy groups in the CFHTLenS dataset. This dataset is derived from the CFHTLS-Wide survey, and encompasses 154 sq. deg of high-quality shape…

Weak lensing can be observed through a number of effects on the images of distant galaxies; their shapes are sheared, their sizes and fluxes (magnitudes) are magnified and their positions on the sky are modified by the lensing field. Galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-12 Justin Alsing , Donnacha Kirk , Alan Heavens , Andrew Jaffe

The cold dark matter model predicts that dark matter haloes are connected by filaments. Direct measurements of the masses and structure of these filaments are difficult, but recently several studies have detected these dark-matter-dominated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-25 Tianyi Yang , Michael J. Hudson , Niayesh Afshordi

We use strongly gravitationally lensed (SGL) systems to put additional constraints on a set of holographic dark energy models. Data available in the literature (redshift and velocity dispersion) is used to obtain the Einstein radius and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Victor H. Cardenas , Alexander Bonilla , Veronica Motta , Sergio del Campo

The combination of galaxy-galaxy weak lensing and galaxy clustering is a powerful probe of the cosmological model, and exploration of how to best model and extract this information from the signals is essential. We present the measurement…

The next generation of weak gravitational lensing surveys is capable of generating good measurements of cosmological parameters, provided that, amongst other requirements, adequate redshift information is available for the background…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Edward Edmondson , Lance Miller , Christian Wolf

The current methods available to estimate gravitational shear from astronomical images of galaxies introduce systematic errors which can affect the accuracy of weak lensing cosmological constraints. We study the impact of KSB shape…

We have measured the correlation between the lensing signal induced by (dark) matter and number counts of galaxies on scales ranging from 0.15-3.0 h_{50}^{-1} Mpc (which correspond to aperture radii of 1-15 arcminutes). This provides a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Henk Hoekstra , Howard K. C. Yee , Michael D. Gladders

We measure the distribution of matter contained within the emptiest regions of the Universe: cosmic voids. We use the large overlap between the Ultraviolet Near-Infrared Optical Northern Survey (UNIONS) and voids identified in the LOWZ and…

Weak-lensing peak counts provide a straightforward way to constrain cosmology by linking local maxima of the lensing signal to the mass function. Recent applications to data have already been numerous and fruitful. However, the importance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Chieh-An Lin , Martin Kilbinger

We report the first measurement of the diminutive lensing signal arising from matter underdensities associated with cosmic voids. While undetectable individually, by stacking the weak gravitational shear estimates around 901 voids detected…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Peter Melchior , P. M. Sutter , Erin S. Sheldon , Elisabeth Krause , Benjamin D. Wandelt

Inspired by a new compilation of strong lensing systems, which consist of 204 points in the redshift range $0.0625< z_{l} < 0.958$ for the lens and $0.196< z_{s} < 3.595$ for the source, we constrain three models that generate a late cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Mario H. Amante , Juan Magaña , V. Motta , Miguel A. García-Aspeitia , Tomás Verdugo

We perform a combined analysis of cosmic shear tomography, galaxy-galaxy lensing tomography, and redshift-space multipole power spectra (monopole and quadrupole) using 450 deg$^2$ of imaging data by the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS) overlapping…

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…