8 papers
Exploring the trade-space of distributed aperture telescopes for faint-object spectroscopy
Theodore A. Grosson, Deborah M. Lokhorst, Alan W. McConnachie
Scientific programs targeting the faintest objects push modern telescopes to increasingly large sizes, high costs and complex designs. Obtaining spectra of low surface brightness g…
Assessing the large-scale angular clustering of UNIONS Lyman Break Galaxies via cross-correlations
Constantin Payerne, Christophe Yèche, William d'Assignies Doumerg +8
Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs), selected via the strong spectral break blueward of the Lyman limit, are powerful tracers of large-scale structure at redshifts . In this work, we…
Revisiting the 'Lensing is Low' Problem with UNIONS
Martine C. T. Campbell, Jack Elvin-Poole, Michael J. Hudson +11
We present new measurements of the galaxy-galaxy lensing (GGL) signal around Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) CMASS galaxies using background sources from the Ultravi…
UNIONS-3500 Weak Lensing: IV. 2D cosmological constraints in harmonic space
S. Guerrini, L. W. K. Goh, F. Hervas-Peters +14
The Ultraviolet Near Infrared Optical Northern Survey (UNIONS) is a photometric survey in the northern sky. The quality of the data in the band provides precise shape measureme…
UNIONS-3500 Weak Lensing: I. A Galaxy Shape Catalogue in the Northern Sky
F. Hervas-Peters, S. Guerrini, M. Kilbinger +15
Weak gravitational lensing has become a widely used effect to characterise the dark-matter distribution on large scales in the Universe by measuring galaxy ellipticities and their…
UNIONS-3500 Weak Lensing: III. 2D Cosmological Constraints in Configuration Space
L. W. K. Goh, S. Guerrini, C. Daley +13
We present the first cosmological constraints from the cosmic shear analysis of the UNIONS-3500 weak lensing galaxy catalogue in configuration space. The Ultraviolet Near Infrared…
UNIONS-3500 Weak Lensing: II. B-mode validation for cosmic shear
C. Daley, A. Guinot, S. Guerrini +9
At Stage-III sensitivities, cosmic shear modes unambiguously indicate systematic contamination and are often used to inform data selection and scale cuts for cosmological infer…
Bright Region Reset: an on-detector strategy for minimizing the impacts of atmospheric emission lines on spectral observations
Theodore A. Grosson, Edward L. Chapin, Tim Hardy +4
Observations in the near-infrared using large ground-based telescopes are adversely impacted by bright atmospheric emission lines, particularly the OH Meinel bands. These lines can…