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It is now routine to measure the weak gravitational lensing shear signal from the mean ellipticity of distant galaxies. However, conversion between ellipticity and shear assumes local linearity of the lensing potential (ie that the spatial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Richard Massey , David M. Goldberg

Continuing work presented in Li et al. (2021), we performed a series of tests to our high-resolution three-dimensional mass map reconstruction algorithm \splinv{}. We test the mass reconstruction accuracy against realistic mock catalogs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-04 Shouzhuo Yang , Xiangchong Li , Naoki Yoshida

We investigate the expected cosmological constraints from a combination of weak lensing and large-scale galaxy clustering using realistic redshift distributions. Introducing a systematic bias in the weak lensing redshift distributions (of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 S Samuroff , MA Troxel , SL Bridle , J Zuntz , N MacCrann , E Krause , T Eifler , D Kirk

We present a method to implement the idea of Jain & Taylor to constrain cosmological parameters with weak gravitational lensing. Photometric redshift information on foreground galaxies is used to produce templates of the mass structure at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. M. Bernstein , B. Jain

We simulate the effects of gravitational lensing on the source count of high redshift galaxies as projected to be observed by the Hubble Frontier Fields program and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in the near future. Taking the mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Natalie Mashian , Abraham Loeb

Weak lensing observations measure the shear field and hence the gradient of the dimensionless surface density $\kappa$. We present several new algorithms to recover $\kappa$ {}from shear estimates on a finite region and compare how they…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Gordon Squires , Nick Kaiser

We present a derivation of a generalized optimally-weighted estimator for the weak lensing magnification signal, including a calculation of errors. With this estimator, we present a local method for optimally estimating the local effects of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Bryan Gillis , Andy Taylor

3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) has shown promising results in image rendering and surface reconstruction. However, its potential in volumetric reconstruction tasks, such as X-ray computed tomography, remains under-explored. This paper…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-29 Ruyi Zha , Tao Jun Lin , Yuanhao Cai , Jiwen Cao , Yanhao Zhang , Hongdong Li

Metacalibration is a recently introduced method to accurately measure weak gravitational lensing shear using only the available imaging data, without need for prior information about galaxy properties or calibration from simulations. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 Erin S. Sheldon , Eric M. Huff

We present the results of a weak lensing survey of six high-redshift (z > 0.5), X-ray selected clusters of galaxies. We have obtained ultra-deep R-band images of each cluster with the Keck Telescope, and have measured a weak lensing signal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Clowe , G. Luppino , N. Kaiser , I. Gioia

In this paper we show how intrinsic alignments can be incorporated consistently in the formalism of 3d weak lensing. We use two different descriptions of the intrinsic galaxy ellipticities, the so-called linear and quadratic model,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Philipp M. Merkel , Bjoern Malte Schaefer

Gravitational lensing has long been considered as a valuable tool to determine the total mass of galaxy clusters. The shear profile as inferred from the statistics of ellipticity of background galaxies allows to probe the cluster…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Vincenzo F. Cardone , Martina Vicinanza , Xinzhong Er , Roberto Maoli , Roberto Scaramella

Subject of this paper is the weak lensing effect on galaxies that show intrinsically correlated ellipticities. In our model, we investigate the distortion of the ellipticity field if the galaxies experience an apparent shift in their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Aram Giahi-Saravani , Bjoern Malte Schaefer

Stellar kinematics provide a window into the gravitational field, and therefore into the distribution of all mass, including dark matter. Deep Potential is a method for determining the gravitational potential from a snapshot of stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-03 Taavet Kalda , Gregory M. Green , Soumavo Ghosh

We present a survey of the cosmological applications of the next generation of weak lensing surveys, paying special attention to the computational challenges presented by the number of galaxies, $N_{gal} ~$ 10$^{5}$. We focus on optimal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Padmanabhan , U. Seljak , U. L. Pen

We extend the concept of galaxy environment from the local galaxy number density to the gravitational potential and its functions like the shear tensor. For this purpose we examine whether or not one can make an accurate estimation of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Hyunbae Park , Juhan Kim , Changbom Park

Weak gravitational lensing is a unique probe of the dark side of the universe: it provides a direct way to map the distribution of dark matter around galaxies, clusters of galaxies and on cosmological scales. Furthermore, the measurement of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-07 Henk Hoekstra , Bhuvnesh Jain

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

Galaxy-galaxy weak lensing provides a powerful means of measuring the average matter distribution around lens galaxies -- i.e., the galaxy bias relation. Properly accounting for the spin-2 nature of weak lensing distortions, we develop a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-28 Taisei Terawaki , Masahiro Takada , Takanori Taniguchi