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We use galaxy groups selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) together with mass models for individual groups to study the galaxy-galaxy lensing signals expected from galaxies of different luminosities and morphological types. We…

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

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is one of the first multicolor photometric and spectroscopic surveys designed to measure the statistical properties of galaxies within the local Universe. In this Letter we present some of the initial results on…

We use semi-analytic models of galaxy formation combined with high resolution N-body simulations to make predictions for galaxy-dark matter correlations and apply them to galaxy-galaxy lensing. We analyze cross-correlation spectra between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jacek Guzik , Uros Seljak

Galaxy masses can be estimated by a variety of methods; each applicable in different circumstances, and each suffering from different systematic uncertainties. Confirmation of results obtained by one technique with analysis by another is…

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 report the weak lensing measurement of filaments between Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) III/Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) CMASS galaxy pairs at $z\sim0.55$, using the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) first-year galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-27 Hiroto Kondo , Hironao Miyatake , Masato Shirasaki , Naoshi Sugiyama , Atsushi J. Nishizawa

We report a detection of the coherent distortion of faint galaxies arising from gravitational lensing by foreground structures. This ``cosmic shear'' is potentially the most direct measure of the mass power spectrum, as it is unaffected by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 David Bacon , Alexandre Refregier , Richard Ellis

Weak lensing is emerging as a powerful observational tool to constrain cosmological models, but is at present limited by an incomplete understanding of many sources of systematic error. Many of these errors are multiplicative and depend on…

We simultaneously present constraints on the stellar-to-halo mass relation for central and satellite galaxies through a weak lensing analysis of spectroscopically classified galaxies. Using overlapping data from the fourth data release of…

Galaxy-galaxy lensing measures the mean excess surface density DS(r) around a sample of lensing galaxies. We develop a method for combining DS(r) with the galaxy correlation function xi_gg(r) to constrain Omega_m and sigma_8, going beyond…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jaiyul Yoo , Jeremy L. Tinker , David H. Weinberg , Zheng Zheng , Neal Katz , Romeel Davé

We present measurements of the extended dark halo profiles of bright early type galaxies at redshifts 0.1 to 0.9 obtained via galaxy-galaxy lensing analysis of images taken at the CFHT using the UH8K CCD mosaic camera. Six half degree…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gillian Wilson , Nick Kaiser , Gerard A. Luppino , Lennox L. Cowie

We use a sample of 53 massive early-type strong gravitational lens galaxies with well-measured redshifts (ranging from z=0.06 to 0.36) and stellar velocity dispersions (between 175 and 400 km/s) from the Sloan Lens ACS (SLACS) Survey to…

We present and characterize the galaxy-galaxy lensing signal measured using the first three years of data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES Y3) covering 4132 deg$^2$. These galaxy-galaxy measurements are used in the DES Y3 3$\times$2pt…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-11 J. Prat , J. Blazek , C. Sánchez , I. Tutusaus , S. Pandey , J. Elvin-Poole , E. Krause , M. A. Troxel , L. F. Secco , A. Amon , J. DeRose , G. Zacharegkas , C. Chang , B. Jain , N. MacCrann , Y. Park , E. Sheldon , G. Giannini , S. Bocquet , C. To , A. Alarcon , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , E. Baxter , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , H. Camacho , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , R. Cawthon , R. Chen , A. Choi , J. Cordero , M. Crocce , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , T. F. Eifler , F. Elsner , S. Everett , X. Fang , A. Farahi , A. Ferté , P. Fosalba , O. Friedrich , M. Gatti , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , H. Huang , E. M. Huff , D. Huterer , M. Jarvis , N. Kuropatkin , P. -F. Leget , P. Lemos , A. R. Liddle , J. McCullough , J. Muir , J. Myles , A. Navarro-Alsina , A. Porredon , M. Raveri , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , R. P. Rollins , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , J. Sanchez , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , T. Shin , A. Troja , T. N. Varga , N. Weaverdyck , R. H. Wechsler , B. Yanny , B. Yin , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , D. Bacon , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. Carretero , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , S. Desai , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , A. E. Evrard , 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 , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , D. Petravick , A. A. Plazas Malagón , E. Sanchez , S. Serrano , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , J. Weller

Current theories of structure formation predict specific density profiles of galaxy dark matter haloes, and with weak gravitational lensing we can probe these profiles on several scales. On small scales, higher-order shape distortions known…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Malin Velander , Konrad Kuijken , Tim Schrabback

We present the first measurements of clustering in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) galaxy redshift survey. Our sample consists of 29,300 galaxies with redshifts 5,700 km/s < cz < 39,000 km/s, distributed in several long but narrow…

Kinematic weak lensing describes the distortion of a galaxy's projected velocity field due to lensing shear, an effect recently reported for the first time by Gurri et al. based on a sample of 18 galaxies at $z \sim 0.1$. In this paper, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Brian DiGiorgio , Kevin Bundy , Kyle B. Westfall , Alexie Leauthaud , David Stark

We examine the projected correlation of galaxies with mass from small scales (<few hundred kpc) where individual dark matter halos dominate, out to 15 Mpc where correlated large-scale structure dominates. We investigate these profiles as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ami Choi , J. Anthony Tyson , Chris B. Morrison , M. James Jee , Samuel J. Schmidt , Vera E. Margoniner , David M. Wittman

We have observed two blank fields of approximately 30 by 23 arcminutes using the William Herschel Telescope. The fields have been studied as part of the CNOC2 survey, and spectroscopic redshifts are available for 1125 galaxies in the two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Hoekstra , M. Franx , K. Kuijken , R. G. Carlberg , H. K. C. Yee

Statistical weak lensing by large-scale structure -- cosmic shear -- is a promising cosmological tool, which has motivated the design of several large upcoming surveys. Here, we present a measurement of cosmic shear using coadded Sloan…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-15 Eric M. Huff , Tim Eifler , Christopher M. Hirata , Rachel Mandelbaum , David Schlegel , Uros Seljak