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Publications (5)

astro-ph.CO2022

An empirical approach to model selection: weak lensing and intrinsic alignments

Andresa Campos, Simon Samuroff, Rachel Mandelbaum

In cosmology, we routinely choose between models to describe our data, and can incur biases due to insufficient models or lose constraining power with overly complex models. In thi…

astro-ph.CO2022

Modeling Intrinsic Galaxy Alignment in the MICE Simulation

Kai Hoffmann, Lucas F. Secco, Jonathan Blazek +8

The intrinsic alignment (IA) of galaxies is potentially a major limitation in deriving cosmological constraints from weak lensing surveys. In order to investigate this effect we as…

astro-ph.CO2025

Confronting cosmic shear astrophysical uncertainties: DES Year 3 revisited

Leah Bigwood, Jamie McCullough, Jared Siegel +19

Cosmology from weak gravitational lensing has been limited by astrophysical uncertainties in baryonic feedback and intrinsic alignments. By calibrating these effects using external…

astro-ph.CO2021

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Constraining Baryonic Physics in the Universe

Hung-Jin Huang, Tim Eifler, Rachel Mandelbaum +74

Measurements of large-scale structure are interpreted using theoretical predictions for the matter distribution, including potential impacts of baryonic physics. We constrain the f…

astro-ph.CO2020

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Cluster Abundances and Weak Lensing

DES Collaboration, Tim Abbott, Michel Aguena +129

We perform a joint analysis of the counts and weak lensing signal of redMaPPer clusters selected from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 1 dataset. Our analysis uses the same shear…