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Lensing probabilities of quasars with image separations greater than \Delta\theta and flux density ratios less than q_{\mathrm{r}} are calculated by foreground dark matter halos in a flat, cosmological constant dominated (\LambdaCDM)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Da-Ming Chen

The spatial distribution of galaxy clusters provides a reliable tracer of the large-scale distribution of matter in the Universe. The clustering signal depends on intrinsic cluster properties and cosmological parameters. The ability of…

The apparatus of correlation gamma function (\Gamma*(r)) is used to analyze volume-limited samples from the DR4 Main Galaxy Sample of the SDSS survey with the aim of determining the characteristic scales of galaxy clustering. Up to 20…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anton V. Tikhonov

We present a tentative constraint on cosmological parameters $\Omega_m$ and $\sigma_8$ from a joint analysis of galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing from DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys Data Release 9 (DR9), covering approximately 10000…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-21 Haojie Xu , Hekun Li , Jun Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Pengjie Zhang , Min He , Yizhou Gu , Jian Qin , Zhaozhou Li , Antonios Katsianis , Ji Yao , Zhaoyu Wang , Yirong Wang , Liping Fu

We present estimates of the N-point galaxy, area-averaged, angular correlation functions $\bar{\omega}_{N}$($\theta$) for $N$ = 2,...,7 for galaxies from the fifth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Our parent sample is selected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ashley J. Ross , Robert J. Brunner , Adam D. Myers

With galaxy groups constructed from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), we analyze the expected galaxy-galaxy lensing signals around satellite galaxies residing in different host haloes and located at different halo-centric distances. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-04 Ran Li , Houjun Mo , Zuhui Fan , Xiaohu Yang , Frank C. van den Bosch

We present the results of a study of the average mass profile around galaxies using weak gravitational lensing. We use 45.5 deg^2 of R_C band imaging data from the Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS) and define a sample of 1.2\times 10^5…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Henk Hoekstra , Howard K. C. Yee , Michael D. Gladders

We present constraints on cosmic structure growth from the analysis of galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing with galaxies from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 1. We analyze four samples drawn from the…

The overlap of galaxy surveys and CMB experiments presents an ideal opportunity for joint cosmological dataset analyses. In this paper we develop a halo-model-based method for the first joint analysis combining these two experiments using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-11 Xiao Fang , Elisabeth Krause , Tim Eifler , Simone Ferraro , Karim Benabed , Pranjal R. S. , Emma Ayçoberry , Yohan Dubois , Vivian Miranda

Galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lenses have become a popular probe of dark matter (DM) by providing a window into structure formation on the smallest scales. In particular, the convergence power spectrum of subhalos within lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-25 Atınç Çağan Şengül , Arthur Tsang , Ana Diaz Rivero , Cora Dvorkin , Hong-Ming Zhu , Uroš Seljak

We present a novel approach to extracting dwarf galaxies from photometric data to measure their average halo mass profile with weak lensing. We characterise their stellar mass and redshift distributions with a spectroscopic calibration…

We use the semi-analytical approach to analyze gravitational lensing of quasars by dark halos in various cold dark matter (CDM) cosmologies, in order to determine the sensitivity of the prediction probabilities of images separations to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Li-Xin Li , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

We present a maximum-likelihood weak lensing analysis of the mass distribution in optically selected spectroscopic Galaxy Groups (G$^3$Cv5) in the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey, using background Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)…

We present a cosmic shear analysis of the 100 square degree weak lensing survey, combining data from the CFHTLS-Wide, RCS, VIRMOS-DESCART and GaBoDS surveys. Spanning ~100 square degrees, with a median source redshift z~0.78, this combined…

We present weak lensing constraints on the ellipticity of galaxy-scale matter haloes and the galaxy-halo misalignment. Using data from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS), we measure the weighted-average ratio of…

We present an 8 sigma detection of cosmic magnification measured by the variation of quasar density due to gravitational lensing by foreground large scale structure. To make this measurement we used 3800 square degrees of photometric…

We present the results of a study of weak lensing by galaxies based on 45.5 deg$^2$ of $R_C$ band imaging data from the Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS). We present the first weak lensing detection of the flattening of galaxy dark matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Henk Hoekstra , Howard K. C. Yee , Michael D. Gladders

We derive constraints on the matter density \Om and the amplitude of matter clustering \sig8 from measurements of large scale weak lensing (projected separation R=5-30\hmpc) by clusters in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey MaxBCG catalog. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-11 Ying Zu , David H. Weinberg , Eduardo Rozo , Erin S. Sheldon , Jeremy L. Tinker , Matthew R. Becker

We study the shapes of galaxy dark matter haloes by measuring the anisotropy of the weak gravitational lensing signal around galaxies in the second Red-sequence Cluster Survey (RCS2). We determine the average shear anisotropy within the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Edo van Uitert , Henk Hoekstra , Tim Schrabback , David G. Gilbank , Michael D. Gladders , H. K. C. Yee