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A crucial aspect of mass-mapping, via weak lensing, is quantification of the uncertainty introduced during the reconstruction process. Properly accounting for these errors has been largely ignored to date. We present a new method to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-16 Matthew A. Price , Jason D. McEwen , Xiaohao Cai , Thomas D. Kitching , Christopher G. R. Wallis

We study the accuracy with which weak lensing measurements could be made from a future space-based survey, predicting the subsequent precisions of 3-dimensional dark matter maps, projected 2-dimensional dark matter maps, and mass-selected…

We propose an Analytical method of Blind Separation (ABS) of cosmic magnification from the intrinsic fluctuations of galaxy number density in the observed galaxy number density distribution. The ABS method utilizes the different dependences…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-27 Xinjuan Yang , Jun Zhang , Yu Yu , Pengjie Zhang

We propose a novel bias-free method for reconstructing the power spectrum of the weak lensing deflection field from cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations. The proposed method is in contrast to the standard method of CMB lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 Blake D. Sherwin , Sudeep Das

Now that weak lensing signals on the order of a percent are actively being searched for (cosmic shear, galaxy-galaxy lensing, large radii in clusters...) it is important to investigate how accurately weak shears can be determined. Many…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 K. Kuijken

We have performed a 70 billion dark-matter particles N-body simulation in a 2 $h^{-1}$ Gpc periodic box, using the concordance, cosmological model as favored by the latest WMAP3 results. We have computed a full-sky convergence map with a…

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

Next-generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) surveys are expected to provide valuable information about the primordial universe by creating maps of the mass along the line of sight. Traditional tools for creating these lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-17 Peikai Li , Ipek Ilayda Onur , Scott Dodelson , Shreyas Chaudhari

The reliability of cluster lens reconstruction techniques based on weak lensing is studied in terms of the accuracy of their reproduction of the total cluster mass as a function of distance from the cluster center. To do so, a variety of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Matthias Bartelmann

Lensless cameras provide a framework to build thin imaging systems by replacing the lens in a conventional camera with an amplitude or phase mask near the sensor. Existing methods for lensless imaging can recover the depth and intensity of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-19 Yucheng Zheng , Yi Hua , Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan , M. Salman Asif

We model weak gravitational lensing of light by large-scale structure using ray tracing through N-body simulations. The method is described with particular attention paid to numerical convergence. We investigate some of the key…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Chris Vale , Martin White

Weak lensing convergence maps - upon which higher order statistics can be calculated - can be recovered from observations of the shear field by solving the lensing inverse problem. For typical surveys this inverse problem is ill-posed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-08 Matthew A. Price , Xiaohao Cai , Jason D. McEwen , Thomas D. Kitching

Weak-lensing mass-mapping algorithms, which reconstruct the convergence field from galaxy shear measurements, are crucial for extracting higher-order statistics to constrain cosmological parameters. However, only limited research has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Andreas Tersenov , Lucie Baumont , Jean-Luc Starck , Martin Kilbinger

The lensing information provided by multiple images, arclets, and statistical distortions can all be formulated as linear constraints on the arrival-time surface, and hence on the mass distribution. This reduces cluster lens reconstruction…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Prasenjit Saha , Liliya L. R. Williams , Hanadi AbdelSalam

We present a study of weak lensing shear measurements for simulated galaxy images at radio wavelengths. We construct a simulation pipeline into which we can input galaxy images of known ellipticity, and with which we then simulate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Prina Patel , Filipe B. Abdalla , David J. Bacon , Barnaby Rowe , Oleg Smirnov , Rob J. Beswick

We present reconstructed convergence maps, \textit{mass maps}, from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) third year (Y3) weak gravitational lensing data set. The mass maps are weighted projections of the density field (primarily dark matter) in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-23 N. Jeffrey , M. Gatti , C. Chang , L. Whiteway , U. Demirbozan , A. Kovacs , G. Pollina , D. Bacon , N. Hamaus , T. Kacprzak , O. Lahav , F. Lanusse , B. Mawdsley , S. Nadathur , J. L. Starck , P. Vielzeuf , D. Zeurcher , A. Alarcon , A. Amon , K. Bechtol , G. M. Bernstein , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , R. Cawthon , R. Chen , A. Choi , J. Cordero , C. Davis , J. DeRose , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , F. Elsner , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , A. Ferté , G. Giannini , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , E. M. Huff , D. Huterer , N. Kuropatkin , M. Jarvis , P. F. Leget , N. MacCrann , J. McCullough , J. Muir , J. Myles , A. Navarro-Alsina , S. Pandey , J. Prat , M. Raveri , R. P. Rollins , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , C. Sánchez , L. F. Secco , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , M. A. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , T. N. Varga , B. Yanny B. Yin , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , F. Andrade-Oliveira , M. R. Becker , E. Bertin , S. Bhargava , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , B. Hoyle , B. Jain , D. J. James , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. A. Plazas , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , A. Roodman , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , S. Serrano , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , J. Weller

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

The lensless endoscope (LE) is a promising device to acquire in vivo images at a cellular scale. The tiny size of the probe enables a deep exploration of the tissues. Lensless endoscopy with a multicore fiber (MCF) commonly uses a spatial…

We develop a pseudo power spectrum technique for measuring the lensing power spectrum from weak lensing surveys in both the full sky and flat sky limits. The power spectrum approaches have a number of advantages over the traditional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-06 Chiaki Hikage , Masahiro Takada , Takashi Hamana , David Spergel

This paper proposes a joint framework wherein lifting-based, separable, image-matched wavelets are estimated from compressively sensed (CS) images and used for the reconstruction of the same. Matched wavelet can be easily designed if full…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Naushad Ansari , Anubha Gupta