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 …

Cluster–galaxy weak lensing

K Umetsu - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2020 - Springer
Weak gravitational lensing of background galaxies provides a direct probe of the projected
matter distribution in and around galaxy clusters. Here, we present a self-contained …

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 …

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: weak lensing shape catalogues

J Zuntz, E Sheldon, S Samuroff… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We present two galaxy shape catalogues from the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 data set,
covering 1500 deg2 with a median redshift of 0.59. The catalogues cover two main fields …

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 …

Bayesian galaxy shape measurement for weak lensing surveys–III. Application to the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey

L Miller, C Heymans, TD Kitching… - Monthly Notices of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
A likelihood-based method for measuring weak gravitational lensing shear in deep galaxy
surveys is described and applied to the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) Lensing …

Dark Energy Survey Y3 results: blending shear and redshift biases in image simulations

N MacCrann, MR Becker, J McCullough… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
As the statistical power of galaxy weak lensing reaches per cent level precision, large,
realistic, and robust simulations are required to calibrate observational systematics …

Dark energy survey year 3 results: Cosmology with peaks using an emulator approach

D Zürcher, J Fluri, R Sgier, T Kacprzak… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We constrain the matter density Ωm and the amplitude of density fluctuations σ8 within the
ΛCDM cosmological model with shear peak statistics and angular convergence power …

Weak lensing shear calibration with simulations of the HSC survey

R Mandelbaum, F Lanusse, A Leauthaud… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We present results from a set of simulations designed to constrain the weak lensing shear
calibration for the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) survey. These simulations include HSC …