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We present Lenstronomy, a multi-purpose open-source gravitational lens modeling python package. Lenstronomy is able to reconstruct the lens mass and surface brightness distributions of strong lensing systems using forward modelling.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 Simon Birrer , Adam Amara

The effect of weak gravitational lensing on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies and polarization will provide access to cosmological information that cannot be obtained from the primary anisotropies alone. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sarah Smith , Anthony Challinor , Graca Rocha

Weak gravitational lensing surveys measure the distortion of the image of distant sources due to the deflections of light rays by the fluctuations of the gravitational potential along the line of sight. Since they probe the non-linear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dipak Munshi , Patrick Valageas

Cosmic shear is considered one of the most powerful methods for studying the properties of Dark Energy in the Universe. As a standard method, the two-point correlation functions $xi_\pm(theta)$ of the cosmic shear field are used as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Peter Schneider , Tim Eifler , Elisabeth Krause

Weak gravitational lensing is one of the key probes of cosmology. Cosmic shear surveys aimed at measuring the distribution of matter in the universe are currently being carried out (Pan-STARRS) or planned for the coming decade (DES, LSST,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-22 Alberto Vallinotto

The field of weak gravitational lensing, which measures the basic properties of the Universe by studying the way that light from distant galaxies is perturbed as it travels towards us, is a very active field in astronomy. This short article…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-17 Adam Amara

We introduce a publicly available full-sky beam convolution code library intended to inform the design of future cosmic microwave background (CMB) instruments and help current experiments probe potential systematic effects. The code can be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-08 Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden , Jon E. Gudmundsson , Alexandra S. Rahlin

At Stage-III sensitivities, cosmic shear $B$ modes unambiguously indicate systematic contamination and are often used to inform data selection and scale cuts for cosmological inference. We validate $B$ modes for the Ultraviolet…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-06 C. Daley , A. Guinot , S. Guerrini , F. Hervas-Peters , L. W. K. Goh , C. Murray , M. Kilbinger , A. Wittje , M. J. Hudson , H. Hildebrandt , L. van Waerbeke , A. W. McConnachie

lenstronomy is an Astropy-affiliated Python package for gravitational lensing simulations and analyses. lenstronomy was introduced by Birrer and Amara (2018) and is based on the linear basis set approach by Birrer et a. (2015). The user and…

This article reviews recent advances in the application of machine learning to weak-lensing cosmology. Weak gravitational lensing provides a unique and powerful probe of the total matter distribution in the Universe, independent of its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-14 Masato Shirasaki

We explore the dependence of weak lensing phenomena on the background cosmology. We first generalise the relation between $P_\psi(\omega)$, the angular power spectrum of the distortion, and the power spectrum of density fluctuations to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Nick Kaiser

This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of weak gravitational lensing and its current applications in cosmology. We begin by introducing the fundamental concepts of gravitational lensing and derive the key equations for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-06 J. Prat , D. Bacon

Gravitational Lensing is an efficient tool to probe: the mass distribution of collapsed systems: galaxies and clusters; high redshift objects thanks to the gravitational amplification; and the geometry of the Universe. I will review here…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. -P. Kneib

By reducing variance induced by gravitational lensing, likelihood-based de-lensing techniques have true potential to extract significantly more information from deep and high-resolution Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data than…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-13 Julien Carron

We investigate the potential of weak gravitational lensing maps to differentiate between distinct cosmological models, considering cosmic variance due to a limited map extension and the presence of noise. We introduce a measure of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Antonio Guimarães

Gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background by large-scale structure in the late universe is both a source of cosmological information and a potential contaminant of primordial gravity waves. Because lensing imprints growth of…

I review the current status of combing weak gravitational lensing with depth information from redshifts as a direct probe of dark matter and dark energy in the Universe. In particular I highlight: (1) The first maximum likelihood…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andy Taylor

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

Optical weak lensing surveys have become a powerful tool for precision cosmology, but remain subject to systematic effects that can severely bias cosmological parameter estimates if not carefully removed. We discuss the possibility of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-22 Philip Bull , Ian Harrison , Eric Huff

The B-mode of polarization of the CMB is a uniquely powerful probe of gravitational waves produced in the very early Universe. But searches for primordial B-mode anisotropies must contend with gravitational lensing, which induces late-time…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-27 Shengzhu Wang , Antón Baleato Lizancos , José Luis Bernal