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20192026
most citedTesting the Impact of Satellite Anisotropy on Large and Small Scale Intrinsic Alignments using Hydrodynamical Simulations

11 citations · 36 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Combining Rubin and Roman photometry and its implications for photometric redshift estimation

Tae-hyeon Shin, Rachel Mandelbaum, Chun-Hao To +14

We perform a joint Roman--Rubin photometry analysis using the LSST Science Pipelines (LSP) on simulated images, by using the Roman F158 band as the reference band and applying forc…

astro-ph.CO2026

Weak-Lensing Shear Response for Photometric Redshift-Based Tomographic Binning

Xiangchong Li, Tianqing Zhang, Rachel Mandelbaum +1

Dividing source galaxies into tomographic redshift bins is a cornerstone of modern weak gravitational lensing analyses, enabling measurements of the growth of cosmic structure and…

astro-ph.CO2026

An LSST-DESC Precursor Project: Hyper Suprime-Cam Year 1 pt in Harmonic Space

D. Sanchez-Cid, J. Sanchez, I. Sevilla-Noarbe +19

We present the first fully photometric joint analysis of weak gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering (32pt) in harmonic space with LSST-DESC analysis pipelines applied…

astro-ph.IM2026

Robust Photometry for Roman High-Latitude Imaging Survey Cosmology Using Roman and Rubin Imaging

Chun-Hao To, Tae-Hyeon Shin, Chihway Chang +18

Accurate and precise photometry is essential for Roman cosmology because it affects photometric-redshift performance, galaxy and cluster selection, tomographic binning, and redshif…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Galaxy Luminosity Functions in ASTRID: Predictions for LSST

Fatemeh Hafezianzadeh, Tianqing Zhang, Paul Rogozenski +6

We present validated and forward-modelled galaxy luminosity functions and photometric predictions for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time using the ASTRID…

astro-ph.IM2026

cosmo-numba: B-modes and COSEBIs computations accelerated by Numba

Axel Guinot, Rachel Mandelbaum

Weak gravitational lensing is a widely used probe in cosmological analysis. It allows astrophysists to understand the content and evolution of the Universe. We are entering an era…

astro-ph.CO2026

Optimizing the Roman Space Telescope High-Latitude Wide Area Survey for mitigating chromatic PSF effects on shear measurement

Federico Berlfein, Rachel Mandelbaum, Jiachuan Xu +1

Chromatic point-spread-function (PSF) effects arise from differences between the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of stars, used to model the PSF, and galaxies, used to measure…

astro-ph.IM2026

Diagnosing the Effects of Spectroscopic Training Set Imperfection on Photometric Redshift Performance

Alice Crafford, Alex I. Malz, Tianqing Zhang +11

Most LSST extragalactic science will rely on photometric redshifts (photo-) to extract distance information for the galaxies. However, an incomplete or non-representative traini…

astro-ph.CO2025

Deep-Field Analytical Calibration

Andy Park, Xiangchong Li, Rachel Mandelbaum +1

The next generation of imaging surveys, including the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), Euclid, and the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, will plac…

astro-ph.CO2025

Cosmology and Source Redshift Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and Tomographic Weak Lensing with HSC Y3 and SDSS using the Point-Mass Correction Model

Tianqing Zhang, Xiangchong Li, Sunao Sugiyama +13

The combination of galaxy clustering and weak lensing is a powerful probe of the cosmology model. We present a joint analysis of galaxy clustering and weak lensing cosmology using…

astro-ph.CO2025

Modelling Galaxy Clustering and Tomographic Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing with HSC Y3 and SDSS using the Point-Mass Correction Model and Redshift Self-Calibration

Tianqing Zhang, Sunao Sugiyama, Surhud More +13

The combination of galaxy-galaxy weak lensing and galaxy clustering is a powerful probe of the cosmological model, and exploration of how to best model and extract this information…

astro-ph.CO2025

Forecasting the Impact of Source Galaxy Photometric Redshift Uncertainties on the LSST pt Analysis

Tianqing Zhang, Husni Almoubayyed, Rachel Mandelbaum +7

Photometric redshifts of the source galaxies are a key source of systematic uncertainty in the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)'s galaxy clustering and weak…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 2 cited

Redshift Assessment Infrastructure Layers (RAIL): Rubin-era photometric redshift stress-testing and at-scale production

The RAIL Team, Jan Luca van den Busch, Eric Charles +31

Virtually all extragalactic use cases of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) require the use of galaxy redshift information, yet the vast majorit…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 8 cited

Chromatic Effects on the PSF and Shear Measurement for the Roman Space Telescope High-Latitude Wide Area Survey

Federico Berlfein, Rachel Mandelbaum, Xiangchong Li +3

Weak gravitational lensing (WL) is a key cosmological probe that requires precise measurement of galaxy images to infer shape distortions, or shear, and constrain cosmology. Accura…

astro-ph.CO2024

Accurate Shear Estimation with Fourth-Order Moments

Andy Park, Xiangchong Li, Rachel Mandelbaum

As imaging surveys progress in exploring the large-scale structure of the Universe through the use of weak gravitational lensing, achieving subpercent accuracy in estimating shape…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 4 cited

Analytical Noise Bias Correction for Precise Weak Lensing Shear Inference

Xiangchong Li, Rachel Mandelbaum, The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

Noise bias is a significant source of systematic error in weak gravitational lensing measurements that must be corrected to satisfy the stringent standards of modern imaging survey…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 2 cited

The little coadd that could: Estimating shear from coadded images

Robert Armstrong, Erin Sheldon, Eric Huff +9

Upcoming wide field surveys will have many overlapping epochs of the same region of sky. The conventional wisdom is that in order to reduce the errors sufficiently for systematics-…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 7 cited

Third-order intrinsic alignment of SDSS BOSS LOWZ galaxies

Laila Linke, Susan Pyne, Benjamin Joachimi +4

Cosmic shear is a powerful probe of cosmology, but it is affected by the intrinsic alignment (IA) of galaxy shapes with the large-scale structure. Upcoming surveys like Euclid and…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

A Hamiltonian, post-Born, three-dimensional, on-the-fly ray tracing algorithm for gravitational lensing

Alan Junzhe Zhou, Yin Li, Scott Dodelson +4

The analyses of the next generation cosmological surveys demand an accurate, efficient, and differentiable method for simulating the universe and its observables across cosmologica…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

Matching Cosmic Shear Analysis in Harmonic and Real Space

Andy Park, Sukhdeep Singh, Xiangchong Li +2

Recent cosmic shear analyses have exhibited discrepancies of up to between the inferred cosmological parameters when analyzing summary statistics in real space versus harmonic…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 11 cited

Testing the Impact of Satellite Anisotropy on Large and Small Scale Intrinsic Alignments using Hydrodynamical Simulations

S. Samuroff, R. Mandelbaum, T. Di Matteo

Galaxy intrinsic alignments (IAs) have long been recognised as a significant contaminant to weak lensing-based cosmological inference. In this paper we seek to quantify the impact…