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This paper is the first of a series of papers constraining cosmological parameters with weak lensing peak statistics using $\sim 450~\rm deg^2$ of imaging data from the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS-450). We measure high signal-to-noise ratio…

Future weak lensing surveys will directly probe the clustering of dark matter, in addition to providing a test for various cosmological models. Recent studies have provided us with the tools which can be used to construct the complete…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dipak Munshi , Yun Wang

Alternative to weak lensing measurements through cosmic shear, we present a weak lensing convergence $\hat{\kappa}$ map reconstructed through cosmic magnification effect in DECaLS galaxies of the DESI imaging surveys DR9. This is achieved…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-05 Jian Qin , Pengjie Zhang , Haojie Xu , Yu Yu , Ji Yao , Ruijie Ma , Huanyuan Shan

$ $Weak gravitational lensing is a powerful probe which is used to constrain the standard cosmological model and its extensions. With the enhanced statistical precision of current and upcoming surveys, high accuracy predictions for weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-26 Ting Tan , Dominik Zuercher , Janis Fluri , Alexandre Refregier , Federica Tarsitano , Tomasz Kacprzak

Weak gravitational lensing provides a unique method to map directly the dark matter in the Universe. The majority of lensing analyses uses the two-point statistics of the cosmic shear field to constrain the cosmological model yielding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 S. Pires , J. -L. Starck , A. Amara , A. Refregier , R. Teyssier

As recently shown by Viola et al., the common (KSB) method for measuring weak gravitational shear creates a non-linear relation between the measured and the true shear of objects. We investigate here what effect such a non-linear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Matthias Bartelmann , Massimo Viola , Peter Melchior , Björn M. Schäfer

We present a numerical investigation of nonlinear cluster lens reconstruction using weak lensing mass mapping. Recent advances in imaging and shear estimation have pushed reliable reduced shear measurements closer to cluster cores, making…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-23 Yuan Shi , Li Cui

A cross-correlation technique of lensing tomography is presented to measure the evolution of dark energy in the universe. The variation of the weak lensing shear with redshift around massive foreground objects like bright galaxies and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Bhuvnesh Jain , Andy Taylor

We explore the stability of the variance and skewness of the cosmic gravitational convergence field, using two different approaches: first we simulate a whole MEGACAM survey (100 sq. degrees). The reconstructed mass map, obtained from a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Thion , Y. Mellier , F. Bernardeau , E. Bertin , T. Erben , L. van Waerbeke

Analytical expressions for covariances of weak lensing statistics related to the aperture mass $\Map$ are derived for realistic survey geometries such as SNAP for a range of smoothing angles and redshift bins. We incorporate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dipak Munshi , Patrick Valageas

We study how 21 cm intensity mapping can be used to measure gravitational lensing over a wide range of redshift. This can extend weak lensing measurements to higher redshifts than are accessible with conventional galaxy surveys. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-11 A. Pourtsidou , R. Benton Metcalf

Weak lensing by large scale structure induces correlated ellipticities in the images of distant galaxies. The two-point correlation is determined by the matter power spectrum along the line of sight. We use the fully nonlinear evolution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Bhuvnesh Jain , Uros Seljak

We present a set of predictions for weak lensing correlation functions in the context of modified gravity models, including a prescription for the impact of the nonlinear power spectrum regime in these models. We consider the DGP and f(R)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Emma Beynon , David J. Bacon , Kazuya Koyama

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

Weak gravitational lensing observations probe the spectrum and evolution of density fluctuations and the cosmological parameters which govern them. The non-linear evolution of large scale structure produces a non-Gaussian signal which is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Asantha Cooray , Wayne Hu

The ambitious scientific goals of SKA require a matching capability for calibration of instrumental and atmospheric propagation contributions as functions of time, frequency and position. The development of novel calibration algorithms to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-01 María J. Rioja , Richard Dodson

Time-Delay Cosmography is a technique for measuring $H_0$ with strong gravitational lensing. It requires a correction for line of sight perturbations, and it is necessary to build tools to assess populations of these lines of sight…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Patrick R. Wells , Christopher D. Fassnacht , Simon Birrer , Devon Williams

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

Residual errors in shear measurements, after corrections for instrument systematics and atmospheric effects, can impact cosmological parameters derived from weak lensing observations. Here we combine convergence maps from our suite of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-06 Andrea Petri , Morgan May , Zoltan Haiman , Jan M. Kratochvil

We use numerical simulations of ray tracing through N-body simulations to investigate weak lensing by large-scale structure. These are needed for testing the analytic predictions of two-point correlators, to set error estimates on them and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bhuvnesh Jain , Uros Seljak , Simon White