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To obtain an accurate cosmological inference from upcoming weak lensing surveys such as the one conducted by Euclid, the shear measurement requires calibration using galaxy image simulations. We study the efficiency of different noise…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-17 H. Jansen , M. Tewes , T. Schrabback , N. Aghanim , A. Amara , S. Andreon , N. Auricchio , M. Baldi , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , J. Brinchmann , S. Camera , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , V. F. Cardone , J. Carretero , S. Casas , M. Castellano , S. Cavuoti , A. Cimatti , G. Congedo , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , L. Corcione , F. Courbin , H. M. Courtois , A. Da Silva , H. Degaudenzi , J. Dinis , F. Dubath , X. Dupac , M. Farina , S. Farrens , S. Ferriol , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , M. Fumana , S. Galeotta , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , S. V. H. Haugan , H. Hoekstra , W. Holmes , F. Hormuth , A. Hornstrup , P. Hudelot , K. Jahnke , B. Joachimi , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , M. Kilbinger , T. Kitching , B. Kubik , H. Kurki-Suonio , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , V. Lindholm , I. Lloro , E. Maiorano , O. Mansutti , O. Marggraf , K. Markovic , N. Martinet , F. Marulli , R. Massey , E. Medinaceli , S. Mei , M. Melchior , Y. Mellier , M. Meneghetti , E. Merlin , G. Meylan , L. Miller , M. Moresco , L. Moscardini , E. Munari , R. Nakajima , S. -M. Niemi , C. Padilla , S. Paltani , F. Pasian , K. Pedersen , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , F. Raison , A. Renzi , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , E. Rossetti , R. Saglia , D. Sapone , B. Sartoris , P. Schneider , A. Secroun , G. Seidel , S. Serrano , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , J. Skottfelt , L. Stanco , P. Tallada-Crespí , I. Tereno , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , I. Tutusaus , E. A. Valentijn , L. Valenziano , T. Vassallo , A. Veropalumbo , Y. Wang , J. Weller , G. Zamorani , J. Zoubian , C. Colodro-Conde , V. Scottez

We describe a simple and fast method to correct ellipticity measurements of galaxies from the distortion by the instrumental and atmospheric point spread function (PSF), in view of weak lensing shear measurements. The method performs a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-01 M. Tewes , N. Cantale , F. Courbin , T. D. Kitching , G. Meylan

Kinematic weak lensing describes the distortion of a galaxy's projected velocity field due to lensing shear, an effect recently reported for the first time by Gurri et al. based on a sample of 18 galaxies at $z \sim 0.1$. In this paper, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Brian DiGiorgio , Kevin Bundy , Kyle B. Westfall , Alexie Leauthaud , David Stark

Metacalibration is a state-of-the-art technique for measuring weak gravitational lensing shear from well-sampled galaxy images. We investigate the accuracy of shear measured with metacalibration from fitting elliptical Gaussians to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-03 Arun Kannawadi , Erik Rosenberg , Henk Hoekstra

Weak lensing by large-scale structure is a powerful probe of cosmology if the apparent alignments in the shapes of distant galaxies can be accurately measured. We study the performance of a fully data-driven approach, based on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Henk Hoekstra

Weak gravitational lensing has the potential to place tight constraints on the equation of the state of dark energy. However, this will only be possible if shear measurement methods can reach the required level of accuracy. We present a new…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Guldariya Nurbaeva , Malte Tewes , Frederic Courbin , Georges Meylan

With a primary goal of conducting precision weak lensing measurements from space, the COSMOS survey has imaged the largest contiguous area observed by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to date using the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS).…

We present SKiLLS, a suite of multi-band image simulations for the weak lensing analysis of the complete Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS), dubbed KiDS-Legacy analysis. The resulting catalogues enable joint shear and redshift calibration, enhancing…

The measurement of weak gravitational lensing is currently limited to a precision of ~10% by instabilities in galaxy shape measurement techniques and uncertainties in their calibration. The potential of large, on-going and future cosmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Richard Massey , Alexandre Refregier , David Bacon

Weak lensing is an important technique to determine the masses of galaxy groups. However, the distortion imprint on the shape of the background galaxies is affected by all the mass content along the line-of-sight. Using COSMOS shear mock…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 P. F. Spinelli , S. Seitz , M. Lerchster , F. Brimioulle , A. Finoguenov

Weak Gravitational Lensing is a powerful probe of the dark sector of the Universe. One of the main challenges for this technique is the treatment of systematics in the measurement of cosmic shear from galaxy shapes. In an earlier work,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 Claudio Bruderer , Andrina Nicola , Adam Amara , Alexandre Refregier , Jörg Herbel , Tomasz Kacprzak

The sensitivity and wide area reached by ongoing and future wide-field optical surveys allows for the detection of an increasing number of galaxy clusters uniquely through their weak lensing (WL) signal. This motivates the development of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-18 G. Leroy , S. Pires , G. W. Pratt , C. Giocoli

The high sensitivity of the new generation of radio telescopes such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will allow cosmological weak lensing measurements at radio wavelengths that are competitive with optical surveys. We present an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-23 Marzia Rivi , Lance Miller , Sphesihle Makhathini , Filipe Batoni Abdalla

We study the bias and scatter in mass measurements of galaxy clusters resulting from fitting a spherically-symmetric Navarro, Frenk & White model to the reduced tangential shear profile measured in weak lensing observations. The reduced…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-23 Matthew R. Becker , Andrey V. Kravtsov

In modern weak-lensing surveys, the common approach to correct for residual systematic biases in the shear is to calibrate shape measurement algorithms using simulations. These simulations must fully capture the complexity of the…

We present three-epoch multiband ($V_{606}$, $i_{775}$, $z_{850}$) measurements of galaxy shapes using the ``polar shapelet'' or Laguerre-expansions method with the Hubble Space Telescope ($HST$) Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) data,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yousin Park , Stefano Casertano , Henry C. Ferguson

Weak gravitational lensing shear could be measured far more precisely if information about unlensed attributes of source galaxies were available. Disk galaxy velocity fields supply such information, at least in principle, with idealized…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Jean Donet , David Wittman

Weak lensing by large-scale structure is an invaluable cosmological tool given that most of the energy density of the concordance cosmology is invisible. Several large ground-based imaging surveys will attempt to measure this effect over…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 Eric M. Huff , Christopher M. Hirata , Rachel Mandelbaum , David Schlegel , Uros Seljak , Robert H. Lupton

We describe a new method for reducing the shape noise in weak lensing measurements by an order of magnitude. Our method relies on spectroscopic measurements of disk galaxy rotation and makes use of the Tully-Fisher relation in order to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-11 Eric M. Huff , Elisabeth Krause , Tim Eifler , Xiao Fang , Matthew R. George , David Schlegel

We investigate cosmological parameter inference from realistic simulated weak lensing image data using only galaxy position angles, as opposed to full-ellipticity information. We demonstrate that input shear fields can be accurately…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-30 Lee Whittaker