Cosmology with the line-of-sight shear of strong gravitational lenses

arXiv:2603.03441 · astro-ph.CO, gr-qc · Submitted 2026-03-03 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.CO, gr-qc

Submitted: 2026-03-03

Updated: 2026-09-23

Terminology

• Sparsity — 33× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• LE and LP — 20× in this paper
• Clustering — 14× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Gravitational Lensing — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Weak Lensing — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 9× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Matter Power Spectrum — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Homogeneity — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Dark Energy Survey — 2× in this paper
• Degeneracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Legacy Survey of Space and Time — 2× in this paper
• Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aperture — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Hubble Tension — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Sloan Lens Advanced Camera for Surveys — 1× in this paper
• Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam — 1× in this paper
• Systematic Bias — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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• Hyper Suprime-Cam Year 3 Results: Cosmology from Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing with HSC and SDSS using the Emulator Based Halo Model
• KiDS-Legacy: Cosmological constraints from cosmic shear with the complete Kilo-Degree Survey
• Euclid. I. Overview of the Euclid mission
• LSST: from Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products
• Euclid preparation: VII. Forecast validation for Euclid cosmological probes
• The population of galaxy-galaxy strong lenses in forthcoming optical imaging surveys
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• Gravitational lenses in arbitrary space-times
• Line-of-sight effects in strong gravitational lensing
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• Measuring line-of-sight shear with Einstein rings: a proof of concept
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• Line-of-sight shear in SLACS strong lenses II: validation tests with an extended sample
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• Light propagation in inhomogeneous and anisotropic cosmologies
• Source-position transformation -- an approximate invariance in strong gravitational lensing

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