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We investigate how galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements depend on the knowledge of redshifts for lens and source galaxies. Galaxy-galaxy lensing allows one to study dark matter halos of galaxies statistically using weak gravitational lensing.…

Dark matter halos are fundamental cosmological structures whose properties-such as concentration, ellipticity, and mass centroid-encode information about their formation and evolution. Concentration traces collapse time and internal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-08 Chenxu Cui , Xiangkun Liu , Huanyuan Shan , Ziwei Li , Zuhui Fan

Non-parametric lensing methods are a useful way of reconstructing the lensing mass of a cluster without making assumptions about the way the mass is distributed in the cluster. These methods are particularly powerful in the case of galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Pier Paolo Ponente , Jose Maria Diego

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

Line intensity mapping (LIM) proposes to efficiently observe distant faint galaxies and map the matter density field at high redshift. Building upon the formalism in the companion paper, we first highlight the degeneracies between cosmology…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-29 Emmanuel Schaan , Martin White

Weak gravitational lensing, the deflection of light by mass, is one of the best tools to constrain the growth of cosmic structure with time and reveal the nature of dark energy. I discuss the sources of systematic uncertainty in weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Rachel Mandelbaum

Undoing the image formation process and therefore decomposing appearance into its intrinsic properties is a challenging task due to the under-constraint nature of this inverse problem. While significant progress has been made on inferring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-16 Konstantinos Rematas , Tobias Ritschel , Mario Fritz , Efstratios Gavves , Tinne Tuytelaars

Strong-lensing images provide a wealth of information both about the magnified source and about the dark matter distribution in the lens. Precision analyses of these images can be used to constrain the nature of dark matter. However, this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 Konstantin Karchev , Adam Coogan , Christoph Weniger

The weak gravitational lensing of distant galaxies by large-scale structure is expected to become a powerful probe of dark energy. By measuring the ellipticities of large numbers of background galaxies, the subtle gravitational distortion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Charles Shapiro

Understanding the large-scale structure of the Universe and unravelling the mysteries of dark matter are fundamental challenges in contemporary cosmology. Reconstruction of the cosmological matter distribution from lensing observables,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-25 Jessica Whitney , Tobías Liaudat , Matt Price , Matthijs Mars , Jason D. McEwen

Weak gravitational lensing of distant galaxies by foreground structures has proven to be a powerful tool to study the mass distribution in the universe. Nowadays, attention has shifted from clusters of galaxies to the statistical properties…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Henk Hoekstra , Howard Yee , Mike Gladders

Upcoming photometric lensing surveys will considerably tighten constraints on the neutrino mass and the dark energy equation of state. Nevertheless it remains an open question of how to optimally extract the information and how well the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 Peter L. Taylor , Thomas D. Kitching , Jason D. McEwen

Since the strength of weak gravitational lensing is proportional to the mass along the line of sight, it might be possible to use lensing data to find the masses of individual dark matter clusters. Unfortunately, the effect on the lensing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-18 Roland de Putter , Martin White

The subtle and unique imprint of dark matter substructure on extended arcs in strong lensing systems contains a wealth of information about the properties and distribution of dark matter on small scales and, consequently, about the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-25 Johann Brehmer , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Joeri Hermans , Gilles Louppe , Kyle Cranmer

The acceleration of the expansion of the universe has deep implications for structure formation, the composition of the universe, and its fate. Roughly 70% of the energy density is in a dark energy, whose nature remains unknown. Mapping the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric V. Linder

The clustering of matter on cosmological scales is an essential probe for studying the physical origin and composition of our Universe. To date, most of the direct studies have focused on shear-shear weak lensing correlations, but it is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-26 Tobias Baldauf , Robert E. Smith , Uros Seljak , Rachel Mandelbaum

Direct evidence for the existence of dark matter and measurements of its interaction cross-section have been provided by the physical offset between dark matter and intra- cluster gas in merging systems like the Bullet Cluster. Although a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-05 David Harvey , Richard Massey , Thomas Kitching , Andy Taylor , Eric Jullo , Jean-Paul Kneib , Eric Tittley , Philip J. Marshall

We present a novel halo painting network that learns to map approximate 3D dark matter fields to realistic halo distributions. This map is provided via a physically motivated network with which we can learn the non-trivial local relation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Doogesh Kodi Ramanah , Tom Charnock , Guilhem Lavaux

The centres of galaxies are powerful laboratories to test the current $\Lambda$CDM model for structure formation and evolution. While these sub-galactic scales can be directly investigated in the local Universe, it is observationally…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-18 Cristiana Spingola

Discoveries in the last few years have revolutionized our knowledge of the universe and our ideas of its ultimate fate. Measurements of the expansion of the universe show that it is not slowing down under normal gravity but accelerating due…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric V. Linder