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Correlations between the intrinsic shapes of galaxies and the large-scale galaxy density field provide an important tool to investigate galaxy intrinsic alignments, which constitute a major astrophysical systematic in cosmological weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-01 B. Joachimi , R. Mandelbaum , F. B. Abdalla , S. L. Bridle

The Local Cluster Substructure Survey (LoCuSS, Smith et al.) is a systematic multi-wavelength survey of >100 X-ray luminous galaxy clusters (0.14<z<0.3) selected from the ROSAT all sky survey. We used data on 37 LoCuSS clusters from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. -Y. Zhang , A. Finoguenov , H. Boehringer , J. -P. Kneib , G. P. Smith , R. Kneissl , N. Okabe , H. Dahle

The combination of galaxy-galaxy weak lensing and galaxy clustering is a powerful probe of the cosmological model, and exploration of how to best model and extract this information from the signals is essential. We present the measurement…

We detect weak gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at the location of the WISExSCOS (WxS) galaxies using the publicly available Planck lensing convergence map. By stacking the lensing convergence map at the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 Srinivasan Raghunathan , Federico Bianchini , Christian L. Reichardt

We present measurements of the redshift--space three-point correlation function of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). For the first time, we analyze the dependence of this statistic on galaxy morphology, color and luminosity.…

Galaxies are biased tracers of the matter density on cosmological scales. For future tests of galaxy models, we refine and assess a method to measure galaxy biasing as function of physical scale $k$ with weak gravitational lensing. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 Patrick Simon , Stefan Hilbert

A magnitude limited sample of nearly 9000 early-type galaxies, in the redshift range 0.01 < z < 0.3, was selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using morphological and spectral criteria. The sample was used to study how early-type…

We present measurements of the masses of 20 X-ray luminous clusters of galaxies at intermediate redshifts, determined from a weak lensing analysis of deep archival R-band data obtained using the Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope. Compared to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Henk Hoekstra

We detect the weak gravitational lensing distortion of 450,000 background galaxies (20<R<23) by 790 foreground galaxies (R<18) selected from the Las Campanas Redshift Survey (LCRS). This is the first detection of weak lensing by field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. R. Smith , G. M. Bernstein , P. Fischer , R. M. Jarvis

Aims: We present a wide-field multi-color survey of a homogeneous sample of eleven clusters of galaxies for which we measure total masses and mass distributions from weak lensing. Methods: The eleven clusters in our sample are all X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Bardeau , G. Soucail , J. P. Kneib , O. Czoske , H. Ebeling , P. Hudelot , I. Smail , G. P. Smith

The weak gravitational lensing effect, small coherent distortions of galaxy images by means of a gravitational tidal field, can be used to study the relation between the matter and galaxy distribution. In this context, weak lensing has so…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 P. Simon , P. Watts , P. Schneider , H. Hoekstra , M. D. Gladders , H. K. C. Yee , B. C. Hsieh , H. Lin

We report a significant detection of weak, tangential distortion of the images of cosmologically distant, faint galaxies due to gravitational lensing by foreground galaxies. A mean image polarisation of $<p>=0.011\pm 0.006$ is measured for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Tereasa Brainerd , Roger Blandford , Ian Smail

We present the small-scale (0.2h^{-1} to 7h^{-1} Mpc) cross-correlations between 32,000 luminous early-type galaxies and a reference sample of 16 million normal galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Our method allows us to construct…

Recent studies have shown that the cross-correlation coefficient between galaxies and dark matter is very close to unity on scales outside a few virial radii of galaxy halos, independent of the details of how galaxies populate dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Rachel Mandelbaum , Anze Slosar , Tobias Baldauf , Uros Seljak , Christopher M. Hirata , Reiko Nakajima , Reinabelle Reyes , Robert E. Smith

We have investigated, using both a theoretical and an empirical approach, the frequency of low redshift galaxy-galaxy lensing systems in which the signature of weak lensing might be directly detectable. We find good agreement between these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 Catherine O. de Burgh-Day , Edward N. Taylor , Rachel L. Webster , Andrew M. Hopkins

We study the cross-correlation between galaxies of different luminosities and colors, using a sample selected from the SDSS Dr 4. Galaxies are divided into 6 samples according to luminosity, and each of these samples is divided into red and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Yu Wang , Xiaohu Yang , H. J. Mo , Frank C. van den Bosch

This is the fourth in a series of papers studying the astrophysics and cosmology of massive, dynamically relaxed galaxy clusters. Here, we use measurements of weak gravitational lensing from the Weighing the Giants project to calibrate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 D. E. Applegate , A. Mantz , S. W. Allen , A. von der Linden , R. G. Morris , S. Hilbert , P. L. Kelly , D. L. Burke , H. Ebeling , D. A. Rapetti , R. W. Schmidt

A joint analysis of the clustering of galaxies and their weak gravitational lensing signal is well-suited to simultaneously constrain the galaxy-halo connection as well as the cosmological parameters by breaking the degeneracy between…