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most citedBreaking degeneracies in modified gravity with higher (than 2nd) order weak-lensing statistics

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28 papers

astro-ph.CO2024★ 12 cited

Euclid preparation. LIII. LensMC, weak lensing cosmic shear measurement with forward modelling and Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling

Euclid Collaboration, G. Congedo, L. Miller +239

LensMC is a weak lensing shear measurement method developed for Euclid and Stage-IV surveys. It is based on forward modelling in order to deal with convolution by a point spread fu…

astro-ph.CO2024

Euclid preparation. XLII. A unified catalogue-level reanalysis of weak lensing by galaxy clusters in five imaging surveys

Euclid Collaboration, M. Sereno, S. Farrens +221

Precise and accurate mass calibration is required to exploit galaxy clusters as astrophysical and cosmological probes in the Euclid era. Systematic errors in lensing signals by gal…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 22 cited

SKA Science Data Challenge 2: analysis and results

P. Hartley, A. Bonaldi, R. Braun +105

The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) will explore the radio sky to new depths in order to conduct transformational science. SKAO data products made available to astronomer…

astro-ph.CO2023

Euclid preparation: XXVIII. Modelling of the weak lensing angular power spectrum

Euclid Collaboration, A. C. Deshpande, T. Kitching +200

This work considers which higher-order effects in modelling the cosmic shear angular power spectra must be taken into account for Euclid. We identify which terms are of concern, an…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 55 cited

JAX-COSMO: An End-to-End Differentiable and GPU Accelerated Cosmology Library

Jean-Eric Campagne, François Lanusse, Joe Zuntz +7

We present jax-cosmo, a library for automatically differentiable cosmological theory calculations. It uses the JAX library, which has created a new coding ecosystem, especially in…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 29 cited

Euclid preparation. XXXII. Evaluating the weak lensing cluster mass biases using the Three Hundred Project hydrodynamical simulations

Euclid Collaboration, C. Giocoli, M. Meneghetti +213

The photometric catalogue of galaxy clusters extracted from ESA Euclid data is expected to be very competitive for cosmological studies. Using state-of-the-art hydrodynamical simul…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 60 cited

Euclid Preparation. XXVIII. Forecasts for ten different higher-order weak lensing statistics

Euclid Collaboration, V. Ajani, M. Baldi +211

Recent cosmic shear studies have shown that higher-order statistics (HOS) developed by independent teams now outperform standard two-point estimators in terms of statistical precis…

astro-ph.CO2022

Euclid preparation. XXIV. Calibration of the halo mass function in CDM cosmologies

Euclid Collaboration, T. Castro, A. Fumagalli +179

Euclid's photometric galaxy cluster survey has the potential to be a very competitive cosmological probe. The main cosmological probe with observations of clusters is their number…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 32 cited

Using wavelets to capture deviations from smoothness in galaxy-scale strong lenses

Aymeric Galan, Georgios Vernardos, Austin Peel +2

Modeling the mass distribution of galaxy-scale strong gravitational lenses is a task of increasing difficulty. The high-resolution and depth of imaging data now available render si…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 11 cited

ShapePipe: A modular weak-lensing processing and analysis pipeline

S. Farrens, A. Guinot, M. Kilbinger +8

We present the first public release of ShapePipe, an open-source and modular weak-lensing measurement, analysis, and validation pipeline written in Python. We describe the design o…

astro-ph.GA2022

Euclid preparation: XXIII. Derivation of galaxy physical properties with deep machine learning using mock fluxes and H-band images

Euclid Collaboration, L. Bisigello, C. J. Conselice +196

Next generation telescopes, like Euclid, Rubin/LSST, and Roman, will open new windows on the Universe, allowing us to infer physical properties for tens of millions of galaxies. Ma…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 5 cited

Lightweight HI source finding for next generation radio surveys

Emma Tolley, Damien Korber, Aymeric Galan +5

Future deep HI surveys will be essential for understanding the nature of galaxies and the content of the Universe. However, the large volume of these data will require distributed…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 27 cited

ShapePipe: a new shape measurement pipeline and weak-lensing application to UNIONS/CFIS data

Axel Guinot, Martin Kilbinger, Samuel Farrens +16

UNIONS is an ongoing collaboration that will provide the largest deep photometric survey of the Northern sky in four optical bands to date. As part of this collaboration, CFIS is t…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 25 cited

Weak lensing mass reconstruction using sparsity and a Gaussian random field

J. -L. Starck, K. E. Themelis, N. Jeffrey +2

We introduce a novel approach to reconstruct dark matter mass maps from weak gravitational lensing measurements. The cornerstone of the proposed method lies in a new modelling of t…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 3 cited

Constraining neutrino masses with weak-lensing multiscale peak counts

Virginia Ajani, Austin Peel, Valeria Pettorino +3

Massive neutrinos influence the background evolution of the Universe as well as the growth of structure. Being able to model this effect and constrain the sum of their masses is on…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 24 cited

The impact of baryonic physics and massive neutrinos on weak lensing peak statistics

Matthew Fong, Miyoung Choi, Victoria Catlett +5

We study the impact of baryonic processes and massive neutrinos on weak lensing peak statistics that can be used to constrain cosmological parameters. We use the BAHAMAS suite of c…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 36 cited

The Role of Machine Learning in the Next Decade of Cosmology

Michelle Ntampaka, Camille Avestruz, Steven Boada +27

In recent years, machine learning (ML) methods have remarkably improved how cosmologists can interpret data. The next decade will bring new opportunities for data-driven cosmologic…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 68 cited

Distinguishing standard and modified gravity cosmologies with machine learning

Austin Peel, Florian Lalande, Jean-Luc Starck +5

We present a convolutional neural network to classify distinct cosmological scenarios based on the statistically similar weak-lensing maps they generate. Modified gravity (MG) mode…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 44 cited

On the dissection of degenerate cosmologies with machine learning

Julian Merten, Carlo Giocoli, Marco Baldi +5

Based on the DUSTGRAIN-pathfinder suite of simulations, we investigate observational degeneracies between nine models of modified gravity and massive neutrinos. Three types of mach…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 71 cited

Breaking degeneracies in modified gravity with higher (than 2nd) order weak-lensing statistics

Austin Peel, Valeria Pettorino, Carlo Giocoli +2

General relativity (GR) has been well tested up to solar system scales, but it is much less certain that standard gravity remains an accurate description on the largest, that is, c…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 17 cited

Sparse reconstruction of the merging A520 cluster system

Austin Peel, François Lanusse, Jean-Luc Starck

Merging galaxy clusters present a unique opportunity to study the properties of dark matter in an astrophysical context. These are rare and extreme cosmic events in which the bulk…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 49 cited

Cosmological constraints with weak lensing peak counts and second-order statistics in a large-field survey

Austin Peel, Chieh-An Lin, Francois Lanusse +3

Peak statistics in weak lensing maps access the non-Gaussian information contained in the large-scale distribution of matter in the Universe. They are therefore a promising complem…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 25 cited

Effect of inhomogeneities on high precision measurements of cosmological distances

Austin Peel, M. A. Troxel, Mustapha Ishak

We study effects of inhomogeneities on distance measures in an exact relativistic Swiss-cheese model of the universe, focusing on the distance modulus. The model has LCDM backgroun…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 21 cited

The effects of structure anisotropy on lensing observables in an exact general relativistic setting for precision cosmology

M. A. Troxel, Mustapha Ishak, Austin Peel

The study of relativistic, higher order and nonlinear effects has become necessary in recent years in the pursuit of precision cosmology. We develop and apply here a framework to s…