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We study the accuracy with which weak lensing measurements could be made from a future space-based survey, predicting the subsequent precisions of 3-dimensional dark matter maps, projected 2-dimensional dark matter maps, and mass-selected…

We present a new method for constructing three-dimensional mass maps from gravitational lensing shear data. We solve the lensing inversion problem using truncation of singular values (within the context of generalized least squares…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jake VanderPlas , Andrew Connolly , Bhuvnesh Jain , Mike Jarvis

This paper presents a new method for the reconstruction of weak lensing mass maps. It uses the multiscale entropy concept, which is based on wavelets, and the False Discovery Rate which allows us to derive robust detection levels in wavelet…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jean-Luc Starck , Sandrine Pires , Alexandre Refregier

Recently, it has been shown that it is possible to reconstruct the projected mass distribution of a cluster from weak lensing provided that both the geometry of the universe and the probability distribution of galaxy redshifts are known;…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marco Lombardi , Giuseppe Bertin

I show how weak gravitational lensing can be used to image the 3-D mass distribution in the Universe. An inverse relation to the lensing equation, relating the lensing potential evaluated at each source to the full 3-D Newtonian potential,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. N. Taylor

We present KaRMMa 2.0, an updated version of the mass map reconstruction code introduced in Fiedorowicz et al. (2022). KaRMMa is a full-sky Bayesian algorithm for reconstructing weak lensing mass maps from shear data. It forward-models the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-25 Pier Fiedorowicz , Eduardo Rozo , Supranta S. Boruah

We propose a new, two-stage algorithm for inverting strong gravitational lenses. The key to the algorithm is decoupling the effects of lens magnification and intrinsic structure in the background source in the appearance of lensed arcs.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Newbury , G. G. Fahlman

We have developed a new technique called Direct Shear Mapping (DSM) to measure gravitational lensing shear directly from observations of a single background source. The technique assumes the velocity map of an un-lensed, stably-rotating…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-26 Catherine O. de Burgh-Day , Edward N. Taylor , Rachel L. Webster , Andrew M. Hopkins

We present a novel method to recontruct the mass distribution of galaxy clusters from their gravitational lens effect on background galaxies. The method is based on a least-chisquare fit of the two-dimensional gravitational cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Matthias Bartelmann , Ramesh Narayan , Stella Seitz , Peter Schneider

Lensing in the context of rich clusters is normally quantified from small image distortions, yielding a relative mass distribution in the limit of weak lensing. Here we show the magnification effect of lensing can also be mapped over a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Tom Broadhurst

High-resolution mapping of cosmic mass distribution is essential for a variety of astrophysical applications including understanding cosmic structure formation, and galaxy formation and evolution. However dark matter is not directly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-19 Supranta S. Boruah , Michael Jacob , Bhuvnesh Jain , Riya Maiya , Raghav Venkataramanan

Context: Weak gravitational lensing is a key cosmological probe for current and future large-scale surveys. While power spectra are commonly used for analyses, they fail to capture non-Gaussian information from nonlinear structure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-17 Vilasini Tinnaneri Sreekanth , Jean-Luc Starck , Sandrine Codis

Weak gravitational lensing is the slight distortion of galaxy shapes caused primarily by the gravitational effects of dark matter in the universe. In our work, we seek to invert the weak lensing signal from 2D telescope images to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-22 Brandon Zhao , Aviad Levis , Liam Connor , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Katherine L. Bouman

The available probes of the large scale structure in the Universe have distinct properties: galaxies are a high resolution but biased tracer of mass, while weak lensing avoids such biases but, due to low signal-to-noise ratio, has poor…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-28 Rafal M. Szepietowski , David J. Bacon , Joerg P. Dietrich , Michael Busha , Risa Wechsler , Peter Melchior

We present a general linear algorithm for measuring the surface mass density 1-\kappa from the observable reduced shear g=\gamma/(1-\kappa) in the strong lensing regime. We show that in general, the observed polarization field can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ue-Li Pen

Weak lensing applied to deep optical images of clusters of galaxies provides a powerful tool to reconstruct the distribution of the gravitating mass associated to these structures. We use the shear signal extracted by an analysis of deep…

In the coming years, strong gravitational lens discoveries are expected to increase in frequency by two orders of magnitude. Lens-modelling techniques are being developed to prepare for the coming massive influx of new lens data, and blind…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-18 Philipp Denzel , Sampath Mukherjee , Jonathan P. Coles , Prasenjit Saha

Weak lensing, which is the deflection of light by matter along the line of sight, has proven to be an efficient method for constraining models of structure formation and reveal the nature of dark energy. So far, most weak-lensing studies…

Modeling strong gravitational lenses in order to quantify the distortions in the images of background sources and to reconstruct the mass density in the foreground lenses has traditionally been a difficult computational challenge. As the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-05 Alexandre Adam , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur , Yashar Hezaveh