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The standard approach to inference from cosmic large-scale structure data employs summary statistics that are compared to analytic models in a Gaussian likelihood with pre-computed covariance. To overcome the idealising assumptions about…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-24 Kiyam Lin , Maximilian von Wietersheim-Kramsta , Benjamin Joachimi , Stephen Feeney

A novel hierarchical search technique is presented for all-sky surveys for continuous gravitational-wave sources, such as rapidly spinning nonaxisymmetric neutron stars. Analyzing yearlong detector data sets over realistic ranges of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-18 Holger J. Pletsch

We augment the `QUAsi-symmetric Stellarator Repository' (QUASR) to include vacuum field stellarators with quasihelical symmetry using a globalized optimization workflow. The database now has almost 370,000 quasisaxisymmetry and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Andrew Giuliani , Eduardo Rodríguez , Marina Spivak

Gravitational lensing by large-scale structure induces weak coherent alignments in the shapes of background galaxies. Here we present evidence for the detection of this `cosmic shear' at the 3.4 sigma significance level with the William…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Bacon , Alexandre Refregier , Richard Ellis

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

In this paper, we motivate the use of galaxy clustering measurements using photometric redshift information, including a contribution from flux magnification, as a probe of cosmology. We present cosmological forecasts when clustering data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Christopher Duncan , Benjamin Joachimi , Alan Heavens , Catherine Heymans , Hendrik Hildebrandt

We constrain cosmological parameters from a joint cosmic shear analysis of peak-counts and the two-point shear correlation functions, as measured from the Dark Energy Survey (DES-Y1). We find the structure growth parameter $S_8\equiv…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Nicolas Martinet , Tiago Castro , Klaus Dolag , Benjamin Giblin , Catherine Heymans , Hendrik Hildebrandt , Qianli Xia

In this manuscript of the habilitation \`a diriger des recherches (HDR), the author presents some of his work over the last ten years. The main topic of this thesis is cosmic shear, the distortion of images of distant galaxies due to weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-24 Martin Kilbinger

The COSMOS-Web survey is the largest JWST Cycle 1 General Observer program covering a contiguous ~0.54 deg$^2$ area with NIRCam imaging in four broad-band filters and a non-contiguous ~0.2 deg$^2$ with parallel MIRI imaging in a single…

Weak gravitational lensing has become a common tool to constrain the cosmological model. The majority of the methods to derive constraints on cosmological parameters use second-order statistics of the cosmic shear. Despite their success,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Sandrine Pires , Adrienne Leonard , Jean-Luc Starck

Bias due to imperfect shear calibration is the biggest obstacle when constraints on cosmological parameters are to be extracted from large area weak lensing surveys such as Pan-STARRS-3pi, DES or future satellite missions like Euclid. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-04 D. Gruen , S. Seitz , J. Koppenhoefer , A. Riffeser

The ACS Survey of Globular Clusters has used HST's Wide-Field Channel to obtain uniform imaging of 65 of the nearest globular clusters to provide an extensive homogeneous dataset for a broad range of scientific investigations. The survey…

The BRITE mission is a pioneering space project aimed at the long-term photometric monitoring of the brightest stars in the sky by means of a constellation of nano-satellites. Its main advantage is high photometric accuracy and time…

We present a cosmic shear analysis with an improved redshift calibration for the fourth data release of the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-1000) using self-organising maps (SOMs). Compared to the previous analysis of the KiDS-1000 data, we expand…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 J. L. van den Busch , A. H. Wright , H. Hildebrandt , M. Bilicki , M. Asgari , S. Joudaki , C. Blake , C. Heymans , A. Kannawadi , H. Y. Shan , T. Tröster

We consider here a new statistical measure for cosmic shear, the aperture mass Map, which is defined as a spatially filtered projected density field and which can be measured directly from the image distortions of high-redshift galaxies. By…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-16 Peter Schneider , Ludovic van Waerbeke , Bhuvnesh Jain , Guido Kruse

We describe the methods and procedures developed to obtain a near-automatic combination of WFPC2 images obtained as part of the WFPC2 Archival Pure Parallels program. Several techniques have been developed or refined to ensure proper…

We present a data-driven technique to analyze multifrequency images from upcoming cosmological surveys mapping large sky area. Using full information from the data at the two-point level, our method can simultaneously constrain the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 Yun-Ting Cheng , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Tzu-Ching Chang , Olivier Dore

We present here the cosmo-SLICS, a new suite of simulations specially designed for the analysis of current and upcoming weak lensing data beyond the standard two-point cosmic shear. We sample the $[\Omega_{\rm m}, \sigma_8, h, w_0]$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-20 Joachim Harnois-Deraps , Benjamin Giblin , Benjamin Joachimi

Cosmic-ray tomography usually relies on measuring the scattering or transmission of muons produced within cosmic-ray air showers to reconstruct an examined volume of interest (VOI). During the traversing of a VOI, all air shower particles,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-11-05 Maximilian Pérez Prada , Angel Bueno Rodríguez , Maurice Stephan , Sarah Barnes