COSMOS-Web: an overview of the JWST Cosmic Origins Survey

CM Casey, JS Kartaltepe, NE Drakos… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the survey design, implementation, and outlook for COSMOS-Web, a 255 hr
treasury program conducted by the James Webb Space Telescope in its first cycle of …

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 …

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Cosmology from cosmic shear and robustness to modeling uncertainty

LF Secco, S Samuroff, E Krause, B Jain, J Blazek… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
This work and its companion paper, Amon et al.[Phys. Rev. D 105, 023514 (2022) PRVDAQ
2470-0010 10.1103/PhysRevD. 105.023514], present cosmic shear measurements and …

Microlensing constraints on primordial black holes with Subaru/HSC Andromeda observations

H Niikura, M Takada, N Yasuda, RH Lupton, T Sumi… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Primordial black holes (PBHs) have long been suggested as a viable candidate for the
elusive dark matter. The abundance of such PBHs has been constrained using a number of …

Dark energy survey year 3 results: weak lensing shape catalogue

M Gatti, E Sheldon, A Amon, M Becker… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We present and characterize the galaxy shape catalogue from the first 3 yr of Dark Energy
Survey (DES) observations, over an effective area of 4143 deg2 of the southern sky. We …

Dark energy two decades after: observables, probes, consistency tests

D Huterer, DL Shafer - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The discovery of the accelerating universe in the late 1990s was a watershed moment in
modern cosmology, as it indicated the presence of a fundamentally new, dominant …

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 …

Fast automated analysis of strong gravitational lenses with convolutional neural networks

YD Hezaveh, LP Levasseur, PJ Marshall - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Quantifying image distortions caused by strong gravitational lensing—the formation of
multiple images of distant sources due to the deflection of their light by the gravity of …

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 …

Practical weak-lensing shear measurement with metacalibration

ES Sheldon, EM Huff - The Astrophysical Journal, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Metacalibration is a recently introduced method to accurately measure weak gravitational
lensing shear using only the available imaging data, without need for prior information about …