Cosmic shear power spectra in practice
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DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2021/03/067
Abstract: Cosmic shear is one of the most powerful probes of Dark Energy, targeted by several current and future galaxy surveys. Lensing shear, however, is only sampled at the positions of galaxies with measured shapes in… read more here.
Keywords: power spectra; spectra practice; shear power; power ... See more keywords
Cosmological consequences of intrinsic alignments supersample covariance
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DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa3214
Abstract: We examine cosmological constraints from high precision weak lensing surveys including super-sample covariance (SSC) due to the finite survey volume. Specifically, we focus on the contribution of {\it beat coupling} in the intrinsic alignments as… read more here.
Keywords: intrinsic alignments; full cosmic; cosmic shear; consequences intrinsic ... See more keywords
The limits of cosmic shear
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DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx1039
Abstract: In this paper we discuss the commonly-used limiting cases, or approximations, for two-point cosmic shear statistics. We discuss the most prominent assumptions in this statistic: the flat-sky (small angle limit), the Limber (Bessel-to-delta function limit)… read more here.
Keywords: limit; cosmic shear; limits cosmic; power ... See more keywords
Testing (modified) gravity with 3D and tomographic cosmic shear
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DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2092
Abstract: Author(s): Spurio Mancini, A; Reischke, R; Pettorino, V; Schafer, BM; Zumalacarregui, M | Abstract: © 2018 The Author(s). Cosmic shear is one of the primary probes to test gravity with current and future surveys. There… read more here.
Keywords: analysis; time; modified gravity; cosmic shear ... See more keywords
Implications for the missing low-mass galaxies (satellites) problem from cosmic shear
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DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/sly101
Abstract: The number of observed dwarf galaxies, with dark matter mass $\lesssim 10^{11}$ M$_{\odot}$ in the Milky Way or the Andromeda galaxy does not agree with predictions from the successful $\Lambda$CDM paradigm. To alleviate this problem… read more here.
Keywords: satellites problem; dark matter; mass; cosmic shear ... See more keywords
Accessing the high- ℓ frontier under the reduced shear approximation with k -cut cosmic shear
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DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.102.083535
Abstract: The precision of Stage IV cosmic shear surveys will enable us to probe smaller physical scales than ever before, however, model uncertainties from baryonic physics and non-linear structure formation will become a significant concern. The… read more here.
Keywords: reduced shear; shear approximation; approximation; cosmic shear ... See more keywords
Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: cosmological constraints from cosmic shear
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DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.98.043528
Abstract: We use 26 million galaxies from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 1 shape catalogs over 1321 deg 2 of the sky to produce the most significant measurement of cosmic shear in a galaxy survey… read more here.
Keywords: year; cosmic shear; dark energy; energy survey ... See more keywords
3D cosmic shear: Numerical challenges, 3D lensing random fields generation, and Minkowski functionals for cosmological inference
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DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.98.103507
Abstract: Cosmic shear - the weak gravitational lensing effect generated by fluctuations of the gravitational tidal fields of the large-scale structure - is one of the most promising tools for current and future cosmological analyses. The… read more here.
Keywords: random fields; cosmic shear; field; minkowski functionals ... See more keywords
Nonparametric cosmology with cosmic shear
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DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.99.043532
Abstract: We present a method to measure the growth of structure and the background geometry of the Universe -- with no a priori assumption about the underlying cosmological model. Using Canada-France-Hawaii Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS) shear data… read more here.
Keywords: moving distance; cosmic shear; cosmology cosmic; geometry ... See more keywords
Rainbow cosmic shear: Optimization of tomographic bins
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DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.99.063536
Abstract: In this paper, we address the problem of finding optimal cosmic shear tomographic bins. We generalize the definition of a cosmic shear tomographic bin to be a set of commonly labeled voxels in photometric color… read more here.
Keywords: tomographic bins; cosmic shear; rainbow cosmic; color space ... See more keywords