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The distortion of images of faint background galaxies by (weak) gravitational lensing can be used to measure the mass distribution of the deflector. The image distortions can be used to define a weighted mean of the mass inside a circular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Peter Schneider

Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) lensing is a powerful probe of the matter distribution in the Universe. The standard quadratic estimator, which is typically used to measure the lensing signal, is known to be suboptimal for low-noise…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-26 Benjamin Horowitz , Simone Ferraro , Blake D. Sherwin

Weak gravitational lensing is considered to be one of the most powerful tools to study the mass and the mass distribution of galaxy clusters. However, weak lensing mass reconstructions are plagued by the so-called mass-sheet degeneracy--the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Bradac , M. Lombardi , P. Schneider

Weak lensing is one of the best available diagnostic tools to measure the total density profiles of distant clusters of galaxies. Unfortunately, it suffers from the well-known mass-sheet degeneracy, so that weak lensing analyses cannot lead…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Alessandro Sonnenfeld , Giuseppe Bertin , Marco Lombardi

We present a set of predictions for weak lensing correlation functions in the context of modified gravity models, including a prescription for the impact of the nonlinear power spectrum regime in these models. We consider the DGP and f(R)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Emma Beynon , David J. Bacon , Kazuya Koyama

We propose a new mass-mapping algorithm, specifically designed to recover small-scale information from a combination of gravitational shear and flexion. Including flexion allows us to supplement the shear on small scales in order to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Francois Lanusse , Jean-Luc Starck , Adrienne Leonard , Sandrine Pires

I discuss the use of cross correlations between galaxies with distance information and projected weak lensing dark matter maps to obtain a fully three dimensional dark matter map and power spectrum. On large scales l<100 one expects the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ue-Li Pen

Weak gravitational lensing simulations serve as indispensable tools for obtaining precise cosmological constraints. In particular, it is crucial to address the systematic uncertainties in theoretical predictions, given the rapid increase in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-02 Zhao Chen , Yu Yu

It is usually assumed that the ellipticity power spectrum measured in weak lensing observations can be expressed as an integral over the underlying matter power spectrum. This is true at second order in the gravitational potential. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Elisabeth Krause , Christopher M. Hirata

Weak lensing alters galaxy sizes and fluxes, influencing the clustering patterns of galaxies through cosmic magnification. This effect enables the reconstruction of weak lensing convergence $\hat{\kappa}$ maps for DES and DECaLS by linearly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-23 Jian Qin , Pengjie Zhang , Zhu Chen , Liping Fu , Yu Yu , Haojie Xu , Ji Yao , Yuan Shi , Huanyuan Shan

Joint analyses of the large-scale distribution of galaxies, and their motions under the gravitational influence of this density field, allow powerful tests of the cosmological model, including measurement of the growth rate of cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-14 Chris Blake , Ryan J. Turner

The weak distortions produced by gravitational lensing in the images of background galaxies provide a method to measure directly the distribution of mass in the universe. However this technique requires high precision measurements of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jason Rhodes , Alexandre Refregier , Ed Groth

Using multiple tracers of large-scale structure allows to evade the limitations imposed by sampling variance for some parameters of interest in cosmology. We demonstrate the optimal way of carrying out a multitracer analysis in a galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-22 Nico Hamaus , Uroš Seljak , Vincent Desjacques

Weak gravitational lensing of distant galaxies by foreground structures has proven to be a powerful tool to study the mass distribution in the universe. Nowadays, attention has shifted from clusters of galaxies to the statistical properties…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Henk Hoekstra , Howard Yee , Mike Gladders

Determining the distribution of redshifts for galaxies in wide-field photometric surveys is essential for robust cosmological studies of weak gravitational lensing. We present the methodology, calibrated redshift distributions, and…

Weak gravitational lensing of background galaxies offers an excellent opportunity to study the intervening distribution of matter. While much attention to date has focused on the two-point function of the cosmic shear, the three-point…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Scott Dodelson , Pengjie Zhang

The large-scale structure is a major source of cosmological information. However, next-generation photometric galaxy surveys will only provide a distorted view of cosmic structures due to large redshift uncertainties. To address the need…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-10 Eleni Tsaprazi , Jens Jasche , Guilhem Lavaux , Florent Leclercq

We investigate the effects of weak gravitational lensing in the standard Cold Dark Matter cosmology, using an algorithm which evaluates the shear in three dimensions. The algorithm has the advantage of variable softening for the particles,…

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

We study how 21 cm intensity mapping can be used to measure gravitational lensing over a wide range of redshift. This can extend weak lensing measurements to higher redshifts than are accessible with conventional galaxy surveys. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-11 A. Pourtsidou , R. Benton Metcalf

Weak gravitational lensing is one of the key probes of the cosmological model, dark energy, and dark matter, providing insight into both the cosmic expansion history and large scale structure growth history. Taking into account a broad…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-12 Sudeep Das , Roland de Putter , Eric V. Linder , Reiko Nakajima