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We present a new method for constructing three-dimensional mass maps from gravitational lensing shear data. We solve the lensing inversion problem using truncation of singular values (within the context of generalized least squares…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jake VanderPlas , Andrew Connolly , Bhuvnesh Jain , Mike Jarvis

We present a regularized maximum likelihood weak lensing reconstruction of the Deep Lens Survey F2 field (4 deg^2). High signal-to-noise ratio peaks in our lensing significance map appear to be associated with possible projected filamentary…

We develop a method of reconstructing the lensing field from lensed CMB temperature and polarization maps in real space as an alternative to the harmonic space estimators currently in use by extending an existing real space lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 Heather Prince , Kavilan Moodley , Jethro Ridl , Martin Bucher

We present a simple method to accurately infer line of sight (LOS) integrated lensing effects for galaxy scale strong lens systems through image reconstruction. Our approach enables us to separate weak lensing LOS effects from the main…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-02 Simon Birrer , Cyril Welschen , Adam Amara , Alexandre Refregier

We present a concept study on weak lensing map reconstruction through the cosmic magnification effect in galaxy number density distribution. We propose a minimal variance linear estimator to minimize both the dominant systematical and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-16 Xinjuan Yang , Pengjie Zhang

We introduce a unified approach that, given a strong gravitationally lensed polarised source, self-consistently infers its complex surface brightness distribution and the lens galaxy mass-density profile, magnetic field and electron density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-30 S. Ndiritu , S. Vegetti , D. M. Powell , J. P. McKean

Weak lensing is commonly measured using shear through galaxy ellipticities, or using the effect of magnification bias on galaxy number densities. Here, we report on the first detection of weak lensing magnification with a new, independent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Fabian Schmidt , Alexie Leauthaud , Richard Massey , Jason Rhodes , Matthew R. George , Anton M. Koekemoer , Alexis Finoguenov , Masayuki Tanaka

Weak lensing provides a direct way of mapping the density distribution in the universe. To reconstruct the density field from the shear catalog, an important step is to build the shear field from the shear catalog, which can be quite…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-27 Haoran Wang , Jun Zhang , Hekun Li , Cong Liu

The topology and dynamics of the solar chromosphere are greatly affected by the presence of magnetic fields. The magnetic field can be inferred by analyzing polarimetric observations of spectral lines. Polarimetric signals induced by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-11 C. J. Díaz Baso , J. de la Cruz Rodríguez , S. Danilovic

We describe a novel end-to-end approach using Machine Learning to reconstruct the power spectrum of cosmological density perturbations at high redshift from observed quasar spectra. State-of-the-art cosmological simulations of structure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-21 Maria Han Veiga , Xi Meng , Oleg Y. Gnedin , Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Xun Huan

Weak gravitational lensing by the intervening large-scale structure of the Universe induces high-order correlations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization fields. We construct minimum variance estimators of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Wayne Hu , Takemi Okamoto

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

Weak gravitational lensing by intervening large-scale structure induces a distinct signature in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) that can be used to reconstruct the weak-lensing displacement map. Estimators for individual Fourier modes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Michael Kesden , Asantha Cooray , Marc Kamionkowski

Applying a transformation to a non-Gaussian field can enhance the information content of the resulting power spectrum, by reducing the correlations between Fourier modes. In the context of weak gravitational lensing, it has been shown that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-16 Fergus Simpson , Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Catherine Heymans , Raul Jimenez , Benjamin Joachimi , Licia Verde

We explore the reconstruction of the gravitational lensing field of the cosmic microwave background in real space showing that very little statistical information is lost when estimators of short range on the celestial sphere are used in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Martin Bucher , Carla Sofia Carvalho , Kavilan Moodley , Mathieu Remazeilles

We investigate the detection prospects for gravitational lensing of three-dimensional maps from upcoming line intensity surveys, focusing in particular on the impact of gravitational nonlinearities on standard quadratic lensing estimators.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Simon Foreman , P. Daniel Meerburg , Alexander van Engelen , Joel Meyers

In this paper, we present a modular approach for reconstructing lensless measurements. It consists of three components: a newly-proposed pre-processor, a physics-based camera inverter to undo the multiplexing of lensless imaging, and a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Yohann Perron , Eric Bezzam , Martin Vetterli

Weak gravitational lensing is a powerful probe of the large-scale cosmic matter distribution. Wide-field galaxy surveys allow us to generate the so-called weak lensing maps, but actual observations suffer from noise due to imperfect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Masato Shirasaki , Naoki Yoshida , Shiro Ikeda

Gravitational lensing is potentially able to observe mass-selected halos, and to measure the projected cluster mass function. An optimal mass-selection requires a quantitative understanding of the noise behavior in mass maps. This paper is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 L. Van Waerbeke

In many areas of imaging science, it is difficult to measure the phase of linear measurements. As such, one often wishes to reconstruct a signal from intensity measurements, that is, perform phase retrieval. In several applications the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Afonso S. Bandeira , Dustin G. Mixon