Author: Martin Kilbinger

École Euclid de cosmologie 2019

École Euclid de cosmologie 2019

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Date: August 19 - August 31, 2019

Venue: Banyuls, Occitanie, France

Website: http://ecole-euclid.cnrs.fr/accueil-session-2019

Lecture ``Weak gravitational lensing'' (Le lentillage gravitationnel), Martin Kilbinger.

Find here links to the lecture notes, TD exercises, "tables rondes" topics, and other information.

  • Resources.
    • A great and detailed introduction to (weak) gravitational lensing are the 2005 Saas Fee lecture notes by Peter Schneider. Download Part I (Introduction to lensing) and Part III (Weak lensing) from my homepage.
    • Check out Sarah Bridle's video lectures on WL from 2014.
  • TD cycle 1, Data analysis.
    1.  We will work on a rather large (150 MB) weak-lensing catalogues from the public CFHTLenS web page. During the TD I will show instructions how to create and download this catalogue. These catalogues will also be available on the virtual machine for the school, or download here.
      If you want to do the TD on your laptop, you'll need to download and install athena (the newest version 1.7). Available on the VM.
  • Lecture notes and exercise classes.  You can already download the slides in one file (40 - 60 MB), but be ware that the content will still change slightly until the classes.
    • Part I (Cycle 1):    [all ]
    • Part II (Cycle 2):  [day 1 (4/6)] The lectures for day 2+3 are given by Nicolas Martinet]
    • TD:                             [cycle 1]. The TDs for cycle 2 are given by Nicolas as well.
    • Table Ronde sujet
Euclid joint meeting: WL + GC + CG SWG + OU-LE3

Euclid joint meeting: WL + GC + CG SWG + OU-LE3

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Dates: February, 3 - 7, 2020

Organisers:  Martin Kilbinger, ...

Venue: Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP),  98bis bd Arago, 75014 Paris.

Local information: http://www.iap.fr/accueil/acces/acces.php?langue=en

Contact: martin.kilbinger@cea.fr

Registration

Please add your name to the following google doc if you are planning to attend the meeting.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/17Hn8Z6LH54fJDbDY2uQPtZPauZotm6IsnNC4LbBcmII/edit?usp=sharing

There is no registration fee. Coffee and snacks will be provided for the breaks. For lunch, participants are invited to go to the nearby restaurants, shops, or imbiss stands
(see http://www.iap.fr/vie_scientifique/colloques/Colloque_IAP/2018/i-practicalinfo.html#lunch for some ideas).

 

 

Euclid - France atelier/workshop gravitational lensing

Euclid - France atelier/workshop gravitational lensing

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Date: October 22, 2018

Organizer:  Martin Kilbinger & Karim Benabed

Venue: IAP,  98bis bd Arago, 75014 Paris. Salle Entresol

Local information

http://www.iap.fr/accueil/acces/acces.php

Participants

Martin Kilbinger
Karim Benabed
Sandrine Codis
Eric Jullo
Francis Bernardeau
Yohan Dubois
Santiago Casas
Raphael Gavazzi
Alain Blanchard
Patrick Hudelot
Calum Murray
Matteo Rizzato
Samuel Farrens
Alexandre Barthelemy
Austin Peel
Nicolas Martinet
Morgan Schmitz
Virginia Ajani
Henry McCracken
Peter Taylor
Bertrand Morin
Céline Gouin

Program

 

10:00   Café
10:30   Martin Kilbinger                Welcome, introduction, goals of the meeting, resources
10:45   Matteo Rizzato                   Information content in the weak lensing bispectrum
11:15   Eric Jullo                                 WLSWG work package “Galaxy-galaxy lensing”
11:45   Alexandre Barthelemy    One-point statistics of weak lensing maps
12:15    Peter Taylor                         k-cut Cosmic Shear: Tunable Power Spectrum Sensitivity to Test Gravity
12:45   Henry Joy McCracken    Euclid VIS activities and weak lensing requirements
13:00   Lunch
14:15   Austin Peel                           Peak counts: breaking degeneracies & machine learning
14:45   Nicolas Martinet               WL peak/mass mapping/shear calibration
15:15   Céline Gouin                       The impact of baryons on WL statistics
15:45   Bertrand Morin                  COSEBIs - Implementation of cosmic shear E-/B- modes
16:15   Martin Kilbinger, all          WL projects in Euclid-France, discussion, future plans
17:15   End

 

 

École Euclid de cosmologie 2018

École Euclid de cosmologie 2018

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Date: August 20 - September 1, 2018

Venue: Roscoff, Bretagne, France

Website: http://ecole-euclid.cnrs.fr/accueil-session-2018

Lecture ``Weak gravitational lensing'' (Le lentillage gravitationnel), Martin Kilbinger.

Find here links to the lecture notes, TD exercises, "tables rondes" topics, and other information.

  • Resources.
    • A great and detailed introduction to (weak) gravitational lensing are the 2005 Saas Fee lecture notes by Peter Schneider. Download Part I (Introduction to lensing) and Part III (Weak lensing) from my homepage.
    • Check out Sarah Bridle's video lectures on WL from 2014.
  • TD cycle 1+2, Data analysis.
    1.  We will work on a rather large (150 MB) weak-lensing catalogues from the public CFHTLenS web page. During the TD I will show instructions how to create and download this catalogue. These catalogues will also be available on the virtual machine for the school.
      If you like, you can however download the catalogue on your laptop at home. Please have a look at the instructions in the TD slides.
    2. If you want to do the TD on your laptop, you'll need to download and install athena (the newest version 1.7). Available on the VM.
    3.  For one of the bonus TD you'll need a new version of pallas.py (v 1.8beta). Download it here. Available on the VM.
  • Lecture notes and exercise classes.  You can already download the slides in one file (40 - 60 MB), but be ware that the content will still change slightly until the classes.
    • Part I (Cycle 1):    [all | day 1 (1/6)  |   day 2 (2/6) |  day 3 (3/6)]
    • Part II (Cycle 2):  [all | day 1 (4/6)   |   day 2 (5/6)  | day 3 (6/6)]
    • TD:                             [1/2 and 2/2]
    • Table Ronde sujet
  • Slack channel: ede2018.slack.com
Cosmological parameters from weak cosmological lensing

Cosmological parameters from weak cosmological lensing

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Authors: M. Kilbinger
Journal:  
Year: 07/2018
Download: ADS| Arxiv

Abstract

In this manuscript of the habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR), the author presents some of his work over the last ten years. The main topic of this thesis is cosmic shear, the distortion of images of distant galaxies due to weak gravitational lensing by the large-scale structure in the Universe. Cosmic shear has become a powerful probe into the nature of dark matter and the origin of the current accelerated expansion of the Universe. Over the last years, cosmic shear has evolved into a reliable and robust cosmological probe, providing measurements of the expansion history of the Universe and the growth of its structure.
I review the principles of weak gravitational lensing and show how cosmic shear is interpreted in a cosmological context. Then I give an overview of weak-lensing measurements, and present observational results from the Canada-France Hawai'i Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS), as well as the implications for cosmology. I conclude with an outlook on the various future surveys and missions, for which cosmic shear is one of the main science drivers, and discuss promising new weak cosmological lensing techniques for future observations.