Weak lensing for precision cosmology

R Mandelbaum - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Weak gravitational lensing, the deflection of light by mass, is one of the best tools to
constrain the growth of cosmic structure with time and reveal the nature of dark energy. I …

Cosmology with cosmic shear observations: a review

M Kilbinger - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Cosmic shear is the distortion of images of distant galaxies due to weak gravitational lensing
by the large-scale structure in the Universe. Such images are coherently deformed by the …

Euclid preparation-i. the euclid wide survey

R Scaramella, J Amiaux, Y Mellier, C Burigana… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Euclid is a mission of the European Space Agency that is designed to constrain the
properties of dark energy and gravity via weak gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering. It …

Fast likelihood-free cosmology with neural density estimators and active learning

J Alsing, T Charnock, S Feeney… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Likelihood-free inference provides a framework for performing rigorous Bayesian inference
using only forward simulations, properly accounting for all physical and observational effects …

KiDS-1000 catalogue: Weak gravitational lensing shear measurements

B Giblin, C Heymans, M Asgari, H Hildebrandt… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
We present weak lensing shear catalogues from the fourth data release of the Kilo-Degree
Survey, KiDS-1000, spanning 1006 square degrees of deep and high-resolution imaging …

Gravitational lensing analysis of the Kilo-Degree Survey

K Kuijken, C Heymans, H Hildebrandt… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) is a multi-band imaging survey designed for
cosmological studies from weak lensing and photometric redshifts. It uses the European …

The Canadian Cluster Comparison Project: detailed study of systematics and updated weak lensing masses

H Hoekstra, R Herbonnet, A Muzzin… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Masses of clusters of galaxies from weak gravitational lensing analyses of ever larger
samples are increasingly used as the reference to which baryonic scaling relations are …

GALSIM: The modular galaxy image simulation toolkit

BTP Rowe, M Jarvis, R Mandelbaum… - Astronomy and …, 2015 - Elsevier
GalSim is a collaborative, open-source project aimed at providing an image simulation tool
of enduring benefit to the astronomical community. It provides a software library for …

Cosmology from the Chinese space station optical survey (CSS-OS)

Y Gong, X Liu, Y Cao, X Chen, Z Fan, R Li… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Chinese Space Station Optical Survey (CSS-OS) is a planned full sky survey
operated by the Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST). It can simultaneously perform …

The first-year shear catalog of the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru strategic program survey

R Mandelbaum, H Miyatake, T Hamana… - Publications of the …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We present and characterize the catalog of galaxy shape measurements that will be used for
cosmological weak lensing measurements in the Wide layer of the first year of the Hyper …