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We study weak gravitational lensing by the cosmic large-scale structure of the 21-cm radiation background in the 3d-weak lensing formalism. The interplay between source distance measured at finite resolution, visibility and lensing terms is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-10 Jose Agustin Lozano Torres , Bjoern Malte Schaefer

Hamilton et al. have suggested an invaluable scaling formula which describes how the power spectra of density fluctuations evolve into the nonlinear regime of hierarchical clustering. This paper presents an extension of their method to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 J. A. Peacock , S. J. Dodds

We study the time variation of the apparent flux of cosmological point sources due to the transient weak lensing by dark matter microhaloes. Assuming a transverse motion of microhaloes with respect to our line of sight, we derive the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Sohrab Rahvar , Shant Baghram , Niayesh Afshordi

We investigate how the use of higher wavenumbers (smaller scales) in the galaxy clustering power spectrum influences cosmological constraints. We take into account uncertainties from nonlinear density fluctuations, (scale dependent) galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-21 Jannis Bielefeld , Dragan Huterer , Eric V. Linder

We investigate the correlation between the distribution of galaxies and the predicted gravitational-wave background of astrophysical origin. We show that the large angular scale anisotropies of this background are dominated by nearby…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-19 Guadalupe Cañas-Herrera , Omar Contigiani , Valeri Vardanyan

Galaxy-galaxy lensing is an essential tool for probing dark matter halos and constraining cosmological parameters. While galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements usually rely on shear, weak-lensing magnification contains additional constraining…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 Jenna K. C. Freudenburg , Eric M. Huff , Christopher M. Hirata

We present the results of weak gravitational lensing statistics in four different cosmological $N$-body simulations. The data has been generated using an algorithm for the three-dimensional shear, which makes use of a variable softening…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Andrew J. Barber , Peter A. Thomas , H. M. P. Couchman , C. J. Fluke

We investigate the weak gravitational lensing effect on the two-point correlation function of local maxima (hot spots) in the cosmic 21 cm fluctuation map. The intrinsic two-point function has a pronounced depression feature around the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-21 H. Tashiro , T. Futamase

We present a formulation of observed number density fluctuations of gravitational-wave (GW) sources in a three dimensional space. In GW observations, redshift identification for each GW source is a challenging issue, in particular, for high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Toshiya Namikawa

In this paper we investigate magnetic fields generated in the early Universe. These fields are important candidates at explaining the origin of astrophysical magnetism observed in galaxies and galaxy clusters, whose genesis is still by and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-19 Stefano Camera , Cosimo Fedeli , Lauro Moscardini

We present a comprehensive full-sky 3-dimensional analysis of the weak-lensing fields and their corresponding power spectra. Using the formalism of spin-weight spherical harmonics and spherical Bessel functions, we relate the two-point…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. G. Castro , A. F. Heavens , T. D. Kitching

We study the effect of peculiar motion in weak gravitational lensing. We derive a fully relativistic formula for the cosmic shear and the convergence in a perturbed Friedmann Universe. We find a new contribution related to galaxies peculiar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-02 Camille Bonvin

Advances in upcoming weak lensing surveys pose new challenges for an accurate modeling of the lensing observables. The wide sky coverage of Euclid makes angular scales down to $l_\mathrm{min}=10$ accessible. At such large angular scales,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-02 Nastassia Grimm , Jaiyul Yoo

Whilst the underlying assumption of the Friedman-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) cosmological model is that matter is homogeneously distributed throughout the universe, gravitational influences over the life of the universe have resulted…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Sonia Akter Ema , Md Rasel Hossen , Krzysztof Bolejko , Geraint F. Lewis

The amplitude of weak lensing should increase with source distance, rising steeply behind a lens and saturating at high redshift, providing a model-independent means of measuring cosmic geometry. We measure the amplitude of weak lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Elinor Medezinski , Tom Broadhurst , Keiichi Umetsu , Narciso Benitez , Andy Taylor

We use a series of ray-tracing experiments to determine the magnification distribution of high-redshift sources by gravitational lensing. We determine empirically the relation between magnification and redshift, for various cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hugo Martel , Premana Premadi

Gravitational waves from the distant sources are gravitationally lensed during their propagation through the intervening matter inhomogeneities before arriving at detectors. It has been proposed in the literature that the variance of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-15 Makoto Inamori , Teruaki Suyama

We perform multi-plane ray-tracing using the GLAMER gravitational lensing code within high-resolution light-cones extracted from the CoDECS simulations: a suite of cosmological runs featuring a coupling between Dark Energy and Cold Dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Carlo Giocoli , R. Benton Metcalf , Marco Baldi , Massimo Meneghetti , Lauro Moscardini , Margarita Petkova

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

Magnification bias, an observational effect of gravitational lensing in the weak regime, allows testing the cosmological model through angular correlations of sources at different redshifts. This effect has been observed in various…