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Probing dark energy with the shear-ratio geometric test

We adapt the Jain--Taylor (2003) shear-ratio geometric lensing method to measure the dark energy equation of state, and its time derivative from dark matter haloes in cosmologies with arbitrary spatial curvature. The full shear-ratio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. N. Taylor , T. D. Kitching , D. J. Bacon , A. F. Heavens

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Cosmology from Cosmic Shear and Robustness to Modeling Uncertainty

This work and its companion paper, Amon et al. (2021), present cosmic shear measurements and cosmological constraints from over 100 million source galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 3 data. We constrain the lensing amplitude…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-17 L. F. Secco , S. Samuroff , E. Krause , B. Jain , J. Blazek , M. Raveri , A. Campos , A. Amon , A. Chen , C. Doux , A. Choi , D. Gruen , G. M. Bernstein , C. Chang , J. DeRose , J. Myles , A. Ferté , P. Lemos , D. Huterer , J. Prat , M. A. Troxel , N. MacCrann , A. R. Liddle , T. Kacprzak , X. Fang , C. Sánchez , S. Pandey , S. Dodelson , P. Chintalapati , K. Hoffmann , A. Alarcon , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , E. J. Baxter , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , A. Brandao-Souza , H. Camacho , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , R. Cawthon , J. P. Cordero , M. Crocce , C. Davis , E. Di Valentino , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , T. F. Eifler , M. Elidaiana , F. Elsner , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , P. Fosalba , O. Friedrich , M. Gatti , G. Giannini , R. A. Gruendl , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , H. Huang , E. M. Huff , M. Jarvis , N. Jeffrey , N. Kuropatkin , P. -F. Leget , J. Muir , J. Mccullough , A. Navarro Alsina , Y. Omori , Y. Park , A. Porredon , R. Rollins , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , J. Sanchez , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. S. Sheldon , T. Shin , I. Tutusaus , T. N. Varga , N. Weaverdyck , R. H. Wechsler , B. Yanny , B. Yin , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , S. Bhargava , S. L. Bridle , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , J. Carretero , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , J. De Vicente , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , M. Lima , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , D. Petravick , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , A. K. Romer , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , D. Scolnic , S. Serrano , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To

3D Cosmic Shear: Cosmology from CFHTLenS

This paper presents the first application of 3D cosmic shear to a wide-field weak lensing survey. 3D cosmic shear is a technique that analyses weak lensing in three dimensions using a spherical harmonic approach, and does not bin data in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-06 T. D. Kitching , A. F. Heavens , J. Alsing , T. Erben , C. Heymans , H. Hildebrandt , H. Hoekstra , A. Jaffe , A. Kiessling , Y. Mellier , L. Miller , L. van Waerbeke , J. Benjamin , J. Coupon , L. Fu , M. J. Hudson , M. Kilbinger , K. Kuijken , B. T. P. Rowe , T. Schrabback , E. Semboloni , M. Velander

Dark Energy Tomography

We study how parameter error forecasts for tomographic cosmic shear observations are affected by sky coverage, density of source galaxies, inclusion of CMB experiments, simultaneou fitting of non--dark energy parameters, and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-22 Yong-Seon Song , Lloyd Knox

Probing dark energy and neutrino mass from upcoming lensing experiments of CMB and galaxies

We discuss the synergy of the cosmic shear and CMB lensing experiments to simultaneously constrain the neutrino mass and dark energy properties. Taking fully account of the CMB lensing, cosmic shear, CMB anisotropies, and their cross…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-21 Toshiya Namikawa , Shun Saito , Atsushi Taruya

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Cosmology from Cosmic Shear and Robustness to Data Calibration

This work, together with its companion paper, Secco and Samuroff et al. (2021), presents the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 cosmic shear measurements and cosmological constraints based on an analysis of over 100 million source galaxies. With the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-03 A. Amon , D. Gruen , M. A. Troxel , N. MacCrann , S. Dodelson , A. Choi , C. Doux , L. F. Secco , S. Samuroff , E. Krause , J. Cordero , J. Myles , J. DeRose , R. H. Wechsler , M. Gatti , A. Navarro-Alsina , G. M. Bernstein , B. Jain , J. Blazek , A. Alarcon , A. Ferté , M. Raveri , P. Lemos , A. Campos , J. Prat , C. Sánchez , M. Jarvis , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , E. Baxter , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , S. L. Bridle , H. Camacho , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , R. Chen , P. Chintalapati , M. Crocce , C. Davis , H. T. Diehl , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , T. F. Eifler , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , X. Fang , P. Fosalba , O. Friedrich , G. Giannini , R. A. Gruendl , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , H. Huang , E. M. Huff , D. Huterer , N. Kuropatkin , P. -F. Leget , A. R. Liddle , J. McCullough , J. Muir , S. Pandey , Y. Park , A. Porredon , A. Refregier , R. P. Rollins , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , J. Sanchez , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , A. Troja , I. Tutusaus , T. N. Varga , N. Weaverdyck , B. Yanny , B. Yin , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , S. Bhargava , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , J. Carretero , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. J. James , R. Kron , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , M. Lima , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , D. Petravick , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. K. Romer , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , J. Weller

Cosmological Constraints From the 100 Square Degree Weak Lensing Survey

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-15 Jonathan Benjamin , Catherine Heymans , Elisabetta Semboloni , Ludovic Van Waerbeke , Henk Hoekstra , Thomas Erben , Michael D. Gladders , Marco Hetterscheidt , Yannick Mellier , H. K. C. Yee

Biased Dark Energy Constraints from Neglecting Reduced Shear in Weak Lensing Surveys

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

Cosmology from Cosmic Shear with DES Science Verification Data

We present the first constraints on cosmology from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), using weak lensing measurements from the preliminary Science Verification (SV) data. We use 139 square degrees of SV data, which is less than 3\% of the full…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-05 The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration , T. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , A. Amara , J. Annis , R. Armstrong , D. Bacon , M. Banerji , A. H. Bauer , E. Baxter , M. R. Becker , A. Benoit-Lévy , R. A. Bernstein , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , J. Blazek , C. Bonnett , S. L. Bridle , D. Brooks , C. Bruderer , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , M. T. Busha , D. Capozzi , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. Chang , J. Clampitt , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , R. Das , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , G. Efstathiou , T. F. Eifler , B. Erickson , J. Estrada , A. E. Evrard , A. Fausti Neto , E. Fernandez , D. A. Finley , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , O. Friedrich , J. Frieman , C. Gangkofner , J. Garcia-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , W. Hartley , M. Hirsch , K. Honscheid , E. M. Huff , B. Jain , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , T. Kacprzak , S. Kent , D. Kirk , E. Krause , A. Kravtsov , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , J. Kwan , O. Lahav , B. Leistedt , T. S. Li , M. Lima , H. Lin , N. MacCrann , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , R. G. McMahon , P. Melchior , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , E. Neilsen , R. C. Nichol , A. Nicola , B. Nord , R. Ogando , A. Palmese , H. V. Peiris , A. A. Plazas , A. Refregier , N. Roe , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , B. Rowe , E. S. Rykoff , C. Sabiu , I. Sadeh , M. Sako , S. Samuroff , C. Sánchez , E. Sanchez , H. Seo , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , D. Thomas , M. A. Troxel , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , R. H. Wechsler , J. Weller , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz

Parameter constraints from weak lensing tomography of galaxy shapes and cosmic microwave background fluctuations

Recently, it has been shown that cross-correlating CMB lensing and 3D cosmic shear allows to considerably tighten cosmological parameter constraints. We investigate whether similar improvement can be achieved in a conventional tomographic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-27 Philipp M. Merkel , Bjoern Malte Schaefer

Dark Energy Constraints from the CTIO Lensing Survey

We perform a cosmological parameter analysis of the 75 square degree CTIO lensing survey in conjunction with CMB and Type Ia supernovae data. For Lambda CDM cosmologies, we find that the amplitude of the power spectrum at low redshift is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Mike Jarvis , Bhuvnesh Jain , Gary Bernstein , Derek Dolney

Weak Lensing and Supernovae: Complementary Probes of Dark Energy

Weak lensing observations and supernova observations, combined with CMB observations, can both provide powerful constraints on dark energy properties. Considering statistical errors only, we find luminosity distances inferred from 2000…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Knox , A. Albrecht , Y. S. Song

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Cosmic Shear

We use 26 million galaxies from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 1 shape catalogs over 1321 deg$^2$ of the sky to produce the most significant measurement of cosmic shear in a galaxy survey to date. We constrain cosmological parameters in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 M. A. Troxel , N. MacCrann , J. Zuntz , T. F. Eifler , E. Krause , S. Dodelson , D. Gruen , J. Blazek , O. Friedrich , S. Samuroff , J. Prat , L. F. Secco , C. Davis , A. Ferté , J. DeRose , A. Alarcon , A. Amara , E. Baxter , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , S. L. Bridle , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , A. Choi , J. De Vicente , A. Drlica-Wagner , J. Elvin-Poole , J. Frieman , M. Gatti , W. G. Hartley , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , E. M. Huff , D. Huterer , B. Jain , M. Jarvis , T. Kacprzak , D. Kirk , N. Kokron , C. Krawiec , O. Lahav , A. R. Liddle , J. Peacock , M. M. Rau , A. Refregier , R. P. Rollins , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , C. Sánchez , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , A. Stebbins , T. N. Varga , P. Vielzeuf , M. Wang , R. H. Wechsler , B. Yanny , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , J. Annis , K. Bechtol , A. Benoit-Lévy , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , E. Fernandez , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , D. A. Goldstein , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , S. Kent , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , N. Kuropatkin , T. S. Li , M. Lima , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , E. Neilsen , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , D. Petravick , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , M. Smith , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , J. Weller , Y. Zhang

Surveying the dark side

We examine the prospects for the next generation of surveys aimed at elucidating the nature of dark energy. We review the methods that can be used to determine the redshift evolution of the dark energy equation of state parameter w,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Roberto Trotta , Richard Bower

Optimal Surveys for Weak Lensing Tomography

Weak lensing surveys provide a powerful probe of dark energy through the measurement of the mass distribution of the local Universe. A number of ground-based and space-based surveys are being planned for this purpose. Here, we study the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-22 Adam Amara , Alexandre Refregier

Cosmology with photometric weak lensing surveys: constraints with redshift tomography of convergence peaks and moments

Weak gravitational lensing is becoming a mature technique for constraining cosmological parameters, and future surveys will be able to constrain the dark energy equation of state $w$. When analyzing galaxy surveys, redshift information has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-07 Andrea Petri , Morgan May , Zoltán Haiman

Preparing for the Cosmic Shear Data Flood: Optimal Data Extraction and Simulation Requirements for Stage IV Dark Energy Experiments

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

3D Photometric Cosmic Shear

Here we present a number of improvements to weak lensing 3D power spectrum analysis, 3D cosmic shear, that uses the shape and redshift information of every galaxy to constrain cosmological parameters. We show how photometric redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 T. D. Kitching , A. F. Heavens , L. Miller

Cosmological parameters from lensing power spectrum and bispectrum tomography

We examine how lensing tomography with the bispectrum and power spectrum can constrain cosmological parameters and the equation of state of dark energy. Our analysis uses the full information at the two- and three-point level from angular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Masahiro Takada , Bhuvnesh Jain

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: cosmology with moments of weak lensing mass maps

We present a cosmological analysis using the second and third moments of the weak lensing mass (convergence) maps from the first three years of data (Y3) data of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). The survey spans an effective area of 4139…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-12 M. Gatti , B. Jain , C. Chang , M. Raveri , D. Zürcher , L. Secco , L. Whiteway , N. Jeffrey , C. Doux , T. Kacprzak , D. Bacon , P. Fosalba , A. Alarcon , A. Amon , K. Bechtol , M. Becker , G. Bernstein , J. Blazek , A. Campos , A. Choi , C. Davis , J. Derose , S. Dodelson , F. Elsner , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , A. Ferte , D. Gruen , I. Harrison , D. Huterer , M. Jarvis , E. Krause , P. F. Leget , P. Lemos , N. Maccrann , J. Mccullough , J. Muir , J. Myles , A. Navarro , S. Pandey , J. Prat , R. P. Rollins , A. Roodman , C. Sanchez , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , M. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , B. Yin , M. Aguena , S. Allam , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Anni , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , R. Cawthon , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , A. E. Evrard , I. Ferrero , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , T. Giannantonio , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Laha , C. Lidman , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , R. Morgan , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , K. Reil , M. Rodriguez-Monroyv , A. K. Romer , E. Sanchez , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , T. N. Varga