scholarly journals Image Simulations for Strong and Weak Gravitational Lensing

Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrés A. Plazas
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Dark Energy ◽  
Systematic Error ◽  
Gravitational Lensing ◽  
Model Development ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Weak Gravitational Lensing ◽  
General Overview ◽  
Error Characterization ◽  
Image Simulations

Gravitational lensing has been identified as a powerful tool to address fundamental problems in astrophysics at different scales, ranging from exoplanet identification to dark energy and dark matter characterization in cosmology. Image simulations have played a fundamental role in the realization of the full potential of gravitational lensing by providing a means to address needs such as systematic error characterization, pipeline testing, calibration analyses, code validation, and model development. We present a general overview of the generation and applications of image simulations in strong and weak gravitational lensing.

scholarly journals KiDS+VIKING-450 and DES-Y1 combined: Cosmology with cosmic shear

2020 ◽  
Vol 638 ◽  
pp. L1 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Joudaki ◽  
H. Hildebrandt ◽  
D. Traykova ◽  
N. E. Chisari ◽  
C. Heymans ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dark Energy ◽  
Cosmic Microwave Background ◽  
Gravitational Lensing ◽  
Error Model ◽  
Calibration Error ◽  
Microwave Background ◽  
Weak Gravitational Lensing ◽  
Dark Energy Survey ◽  
Cosmic Shear ◽  
Energy Survey

We present a combined tomographic weak gravitational lensing analysis of the Kilo Degree Survey (KV450) and the Dark Energy Survey (DES-Y1). We homogenize the analysis of these two public cosmic shear datasets by adopting consistent priors and modeling of nonlinear scales, and determine new redshift distributions for DES-Y1 based on deep public spectroscopic surveys. Adopting these revised redshifts results in a 0.8σ reduction in the DES-inferred value for S​8, which decreases to a 0.5σ reduction when including a systematic redshift calibration error model from mock DES data based on the MICE2 simulation. The combined KV450+DES-Y1 constraint on S8 = 0.762−0.024+0.025 is in tension with the Planck 2018 constraint from the cosmic microwave background at the level of 2.5σ. This result highlights the importance of developing methods to provide accurate redshift calibration for current and future weak-lensing surveys.

scholarly journals CFHTLenS: the relation between galaxy dark matter haloes and baryons from weak gravitational lensing

2013 ◽  
Vol 437 (3) ◽  
pp. 2111-2136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malin Velander ◽  
Edo van Uitert ◽  
Henk Hoekstra ◽  
Jean Coupon ◽  
Thomas Erben ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Gravitational Lensing ◽  
Weak Gravitational Lensing

scholarly journals Detection of weak gravitational lensing distortions of distant galaxies by cosmic dark matter at large scales

Nature ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 405 (6783) ◽  
pp. 143-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Wittman ◽  
J. Anthony Tyson ◽  
David Kirkman ◽  
Ian Dell'Antonio ◽  
Gary Bernstein
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Gravitational Lensing ◽  
Weak Gravitational Lensing ◽  
Distant Galaxies

scholarly journals DO RECENT SUPERNOVAE Ia OBSERVATIONS TEND TO RULE OUT ALL THE COSMOLOGIES?

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. 1641-1651 ◽  
Author(s):  
RAM GOPAL VISHWAKARMA
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Dark Energy ◽  
Gravitational Lensing ◽  
Weakly Interacting Massive Particles ◽  
Cosmological Models ◽  
Accelerated Expansion ◽  
Standard Candle ◽  
Expansion Of The Universe ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Rule Out

Dark energy and the accelerated expansion of the universe have been the direct predictions of the distant supernovae Ia observations which are also supported, indirectly, by the observations of the CMB anisotropies, gravitational lensing and the studies of galaxy clusters. Today these results are accommodated in what has become the concordance cosmology: a universe with flat spatial sections t = constant with about 70% of its energy in the form of Einstein's cosmological constant Λ and about 25% in the form of dark matter (made of perhaps weakly-interacting massive particles). Though the composition is weird, the theory has shown remarkable successes at many fronts. However, we find that as more and more supernovae Ia are observed, more accurately and towards higher redshift, the probability that the data are well-explained by the cosmological models decreases alarmingly, finally ruling out the concordance model at more than 95% confidence level. This raises doubts against the "standard candle"-hypothesis of the supernovae Ia and their use in constraining the cosmological models. We need a better understanding of the entire SN Ia phenomenon in order to extract cosmological consequences from them.

scholarly journals CONSTRAINING TEVES GRAVITY AS EFFECTIVE DARK MATTER AND DARK ENERGY

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (12a) ◽  
pp. 2055-2063 ◽  
Author(s):  
HONGSHENG ZHAO
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Dark Energy ◽  
Scalar Field ◽  
Gravitational Lensing ◽  
Cold Dark Matter ◽  
High Redshift ◽  
Elliptical Galaxies ◽  
Dual Roles ◽  
Acceleration Of The Universe ◽  
The Universe

The phenomena customarily described with the standard ΛCDM model are broadly reproduced by an extremely simple model in TeVeS, Bekenstein's1 modification of general relativity motivated by galaxy phenomenology. Our model can account for the acceleration of the Universe seen at SNeIa distances without a cosmological constant, and the accelerations seen in rotation curves of nearby spiral galaxies and gravitational lensing of high-redshift elliptical galaxies without cold dark matter. The model is consistent with BBN and the neutrino mass between 0.05 eV to 2 eV. The TeVeS scalar field is shown to play the effective dual roles of dark matter and dark energy, with the amplitudes of the effects controlled by a μ function of the scalar field, called the μ essence here. We also discuss outliers to the theory's predictions on multiimaged galaxy lenses and outliers on the subgalaxy scale.

Cosmology Today

Daedalus ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 143 (4) ◽  
pp. 125-133
Author(s):  
David N. Spergel
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Dark Energy ◽  
Gravitational Lensing ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Empty Space ◽  
Microwave Background ◽  
Astronomical Observations ◽  
Basic Parameters ◽  
Age Of The Universe ◽  
The Universe

We seem to live in a simple but strange universe. Our basic cosmological model fits a host of astronomical observations with only five basic parameters: the age of the universe, the density of atoms, the density of matter, the initial “lumpiness” of the universe, and a parameter that describes whether this lumpiness is more pronounced on smaller physical scales. Our observations of the cosmic microwave background fluctuations determine these parameters with uncertainties of only 1 to 2 percent. The same model also provides an excellent fit to the large-scale clustering of galaxies and gas, the properties of galaxy clusters, observations of gravitational lensing, and supernova-based measurements of the Hubble relation. This model implies that we live in a strange universe: atoms make up only 4 percent of the visible universe, dark matter makes up 24 percent, and dark energy – energy associated with empty space – makes up 72 percent.

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