Sentences with phrase «from weak lensing»

Weak lensing cosmology will be challenging: in addition to highly accurate galaxy shape measurements, statistically robust and accurate photometric redshift (photo - z) estimates for billions of faint galaxies will... ▽ More A key goal of the Stage IV dark energy experiments Euclid, LSST and WFIRST is to measure the growth of structure with cosmic time from weak lensing analysis over large regions of the sky.

Abstract: A key goal of the Stage IV dark energy experiments Euclid, LSST and WFIRST is to measure the growth of structure with cosmic time from weak lensing analysis over large regions of the sky.

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Dark Energy Survey year 1 results: Cosmological constraints from galaxy clustering and weak lensing.

«This important result shows the power of weak lensing studies from space to track down dark energy,» says Yun Wang, a cosmologist at the University of Oklahoma, Norman.

This is a subtle variant of weak gravitational lensing, in which the light emitted from distant galaxies is slightly warped by the gravitational effect of large amounts of matter, such as galaxy clusters.

Light from distant galaxies passing through those regions also gets warped, making the galaxies appear streaked and smeared in telescope images, a technique known as weak gravitational lensing.

In addition to Gruen, who led the weak lensing working group, and Wechsler, whose group provided realistic simulations of the survey critical to testing several aspects of the cosmological analysis, a large number of KIPAC scientists, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and alumni have made crucial contributions to DES — from building the instrument to developing theory and simulations and analyzing the data.

Using the techniques of strong and weak gravitational lensing on archival data obtained from the Hubble Space Telescope, we determine that the average mass overdensity profile of the lenses can be fit wi... ▽ More We measure the average mass properties of a sample of 41 strong gravitational lenses at moderate redshift (z ~ 0.4 - 0.9), and present the lens redshift for 6 of these galaxies for the first time.

Abstract: We derive an accurate mass distribution of the galaxy cluster MACS J1206.2 - 0847 (z = 0.439) from a combined weak - lensing distortion, magnification, and strong - lensing analysis of wide - field Subaru BVRIz» imaging and our recent 16 - band Hubble Space Telescope observations taken as part of the Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH) plensing distortion, magnification, and strong - lensing analysis of wide - field Subaru BVRIz» imaging and our recent 16 - band Hubble Space Telescope observations taken as part of the Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH) plensing analysis of wide - field Subaru BVRIz» imaging and our recent 16 - band Hubble Space Telescope observations taken as part of the Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH) pLensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH) program.

We find good agreement in the regions of ove... ▽ More We derive an accurate mass distribution of the galaxy cluster MACS J1206.2 - 0847 (z = 0.439) from a combined weak - lensing distortion, magnification, and strong - lensing analysis of wide - field Subaru BVRIz» imaging and our recent 16 - band Hubble Space Telescope observations taken as part of the Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH) plensing distortion, magnification, and strong - lensing analysis of wide - field Subaru BVRIz» imaging and our recent 16 - band Hubble Space Telescope observations taken as part of the Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH) plensing analysis of wide - field Subaru BVRIz» imaging and our recent 16 - band Hubble Space Telescope observations taken as part of the Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH) pLensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH) program.

Studying the effect of dark energy on large - scale structure involves measuring subtle distortions in the shapes of galaxies arising from the bending of space by intervening matter, a phenomenon known as «weak lensing.»

Since galaxies live in the densest regions of the universe, the weak lensing signal from the deflection of CMB light is strongest from those parts.

«We knew that these filaments should also cause a deflection of CMB and would also produce a measurable weak gravitational lensing signal,» said Siyu He, the study's lead author who is a Ph.D. researcher from Carnegie Mellon University — she is now at Berkeley Lab and is also affiliated with UC Berkeley.

Taking models of galaxies from the Hubble Space Telescope Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) and applying a correction for the HUDF point spread function we generate lensed simulations of deep, opti... ▽ More We present a simulation analysis of weak gravitational lensing flexion and shear measurement using shapelet decomposition, and identify differences between flexion and shear measurement noise in deep survey data.

Astronomers have found a number of uses for ESI, from observing the cosmological effects of weak gravitational lensing to searching for the most metal - poor stars in our galaxy.