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Image analysis for cosmology: results from the GREAT10 Galaxy Challenge

Frédéric Courbin, Malte Tewes, Marc Gentile, Nicolas Jacques Joseph Marie Cantale, Guldariya Nurbaeva

In this paper, we present results from the weak-lensing shape measurement GRavitational lEnsing Accuracy Testing 2010 (GREAT10) Galaxy Challenge. This marks an order of magnitude step change in the level of scrutiny employed in weak-lensing shape measureme ...

Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford2012

COSMOGRAIL: the COSmological MOnitoring of GRAvItational Lenses

Frédéric Courbin, Georges Meylan, Yves Revaz, Malte Tewes

We present accurate time delays for the quadruply imaged quasar HE 0435-1223. The delays were measured from 575 independent photometric points obtained in the R-band between January 2004 and March 2010. With seven years of data, we clearly show that quasar ...

2011

Weak-lensing shear measurement with machine learning Teaching artificial neural networks about feature noise

Frédéric Courbin, Malte Tewes, Nicolai Hildebrandt, Thibault Adrien Kuntzer

Cosmic shear, that is weak gravitational lensing by the large-scale matter structure of the Universe, is a primary cosmological probe for several present and upcoming surveys investigating dark matter and dark energy, such as Euclid or WFIRST. The probe re ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2019

The CORALIE survey for southern extrasolar planets XVII. New and updated long period and massive planets

Malte Tewes

Context. Since 1998, a planet-search program around main sequence stars within 50 pc in the southern hemisphere has been carried out with the CORALIE echelle spectrograph at La Silla Observatory. Aims. With an observing time span of more than 14 years, the ...

Edp Sciences S A2013

First case of strong gravitational lensing by a QSO: SDSS J0013+1523 at z=0.120

Frédéric Courbin, Georges Meylan, Malte Tewes, François Henri Ambroise Rérat

We present the first case of strong gravitational lensing by a QSO: SDSS J0013 + 1523 at z = 0.120. The discovery is the result of a systematic search for emission lines redshifted behind QSOs, among 22 298 spectra of the SDSS data release 7. Apart from th ...

2010

H0LiCOW-V. New COSMOGRAIL time delays of HE 0435-1223: H-0 to 3.8 per cent precision from strong lensing in a flat Lambda CDM model

Frédéric Courbin, Georges Meylan, Vivien François Bonvin, Malte Tewes

We present a new measurement of the Hubble Constant H-0 and other cosmological parameters based on the joint analysis of three multiply imaged quasar systems with measured gravitational time delays. First, we measure the time delay of HE 0435-1223 from 13- ...

Oxford Univ Press2017

COSMOGRAIL: XIX. Time delays in 18 strongly lensed quasars from 15 years of optical monitoring star

Frédéric Courbin, Georges Meylan, Hung-Hsu Chan, Vivien François Bonvin, Malte Tewes, Martin Raoul Robert Millon, Aymeric Alexandre Galan, Rémy Elie Joseph, Eric Gérard Guy Paic, Cameron Alexander Campbell Lemon, Olga Tihhonova

We present the results of 15 years of monitoring lensed quasars, which was conducted by the COSMOGRAIL programme at the Leonhard Euler 1.2 m Swiss Telescope. The decade-long light curves of 23 lensed systems are presented for the first time. We complement ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2020

Stellar classification from single-band imaging using machine learning

Frédéric Courbin, Malte Tewes, Thibault Adrien Kuntzer

Information on the spectral types of stars is of great interest in view of the exploitation of space-based imaging surveys. In this article, we investigate the classification of stars into spectral types using only the shape of their diffraction pattern in ...

Edp Sciences S A2016

Hopfield neural network deconvolution for weak lensing measurement

Frédéric Courbin, Georges Meylan, Malte Tewes, Guldariya Nurbaeva

Weak gravitational lensing has the potential to place tight constraints on the equation of the state of dark energy. However, this will only be possible if shear measurement methods can reach the required level of accuracy. We present a new method for meas ...

EDP Sciences2015

GREAT3 results - I. Systematic errors in shear estimation and the impact of real galaxy morphology

Frédéric Courbin, Malte Tewes, Huanyuan Shan, Marc Gentile, Thibault Adrien Kuntzer, Guldariya Nurbaeva

We present first results from the third GRavitational lEnsing Accuracy Testing (GREAT3) challenge, the third in a sequence of challenges for testing methods of inferring weak gravitational lensing shear distortions from simulated galaxy images. GREAT3 was ...

Oxford University Press2015

COSMOGRAIL XVII. Time delays for the quadruply imaged quasar PG 1115+080

Sun Hee Kim, Frédéric Courbin, Georges Meylan, Hung-Hsu Chan, Vivien François Bonvin, Malte Tewes, Martin Raoul Robert Millon, Karina Alexandra Rojas Olate, Eric Gérard Guy Paic

We present time-delay estimates for the quadruply imaged quasar PG 1115+080. Our results are based on almost daily observations for seven months at the ESO MPIA 2.2m telescope at La Silla Observatory, reaching a signal-to-noise ratio of about 1000 per quas ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2018

COSMOGRAIL: the COSmological MOnitoring of GRAvItational Lenses XV. Assessing the achievability and precision of time-delay measurements

Frédéric Courbin, Georges Meylan, Vivien François Bonvin, Malte Tewes, Thibault Adrien Kuntzer

COSMOGRAIL is a long-term photometric monitoring of gravitationally lensed quasars aimed at implementing Refsdal's time-delay method to measure cosmological parameters, in particular H-0. Given the long and well sampled light curves of strongly lensed quas ...

Edp Sciences S A2016

A Consistent Picture Emerges: A Compact X-Ray Continuum Emission Region In The Gravitationally Lensed Quasar Sdss J0924+0219

Frédéric Courbin, Georges Meylan, Malte Tewes

We analyze the optical, UV, and X-ray microlensing variability of the lensed quasar SDSS J0924+ 0219 using six epochs of Chandra data in two energy bands (spanning 0.4-8.0 keV, or 1-20 keV in the quasar rest frame), 10 epochs of F275W (rest-frame 1089 angs ...

American Astronomical Society2015

Three quasi-stellar objects acting as strong gravitational lenses

Frédéric Courbin, Georges Meylan, Malte Tewes, François Henri Ambroise Rérat

We report the discovery of three new cases of quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) acting as strong gravitational lenses on background emission line galaxies: SDSS J0827+5224 (z(QSO) = 0.293, z(s) = 0.412), SDSS J0919+2720 (z(QSO) = 0.209, z(s) = 0.558), SDSS J100 ...

2012

XXXIV. The effect of linear redshift-space distortions in photometric galaxy clustering and its cross-correlation with cosmic shear

Maurizio Martinelli, Frédéric Courbin, Georges Meylan, Malte Tewes, Slobodan Ilic, Gianluca Castignani, Alessandro Pezzotta

Context. The cosmological surveys that are planned for the current decade will provide us with unparalleled observations of the distribution of galaxies on cosmic scales, by means of which we can probe the underlying large-scale structure (LSS) of the Univ ...

Edp Sciences S A2024

Further Evidence That Quasar X-Ray Emitting Regions Are Compact: X-Ray And Optical Microlensing In The Lensed Quasar Q J0158-4325

Frédéric Courbin, Georges Meylan, Malte Tewes

We present four new seasons of optical monitoring data and six epochs of X-ray photometry for the doubly imaged lensed quasar Q J0158-4325. The high-amplitude, short-period microlensing variability for which this system is known has historically precluded ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2012

Euclid: Improving the efficiency of weak lensing shear bias calibration

Frédéric Courbin, Georges Meylan, Malte Tewes

To obtain an accurate cosmological inference from upcoming weak lensing surveys such as the one conducted by Euclid, the shear measurement requires calibration using galaxy image simulations. As it typically requires millions of simulated galaxy images and ...

Edp Sciences S A2024

COSMOGRAIL: the COSmological MOnitoring of GRAvItational Lenses XII. Time delays of the doubly lensed quasars SDSS J1206+4332 and HS 2209+1914

Frédéric Courbin, Georges Meylan, Malte Tewes

Aims. Within the framework of the COSMOGRAIL collaboration we present 7- and 8.5-year-long light curves and time-delay estimates for two gravitationally lensed quasars: SDSS J1206+4332 and HS 2209+1914. Methods. We monitored these doubly lensed quasars in ...

Edp Sciences S A2013

Cosmology From Gravitational Lens Time Delays And Planck Data

Frédéric Courbin, Georges Meylan, Malte Tewes

Under the assumption of a flat Lambda CDM cosmology, recent data from the Planck satellite point toward a Hubble constant that is in tension with that measured by gravitational lens time delays and by the local distance ladder. Prosaically, this difference ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2014

A fast empirical method for galaxy shape measurements in weak lensing surveys

Frédéric Courbin, Georges Meylan, Malte Tewes, Nicolas Jacques Joseph Marie Cantale

We describe a simple and fast method to correct ellipticity measurements of galaxies from the distortion by the instrumental and atmospheric point spread function (PSF), in view of weak lensing shear measurements. The method performs a classification of ga ...

Edp Sciences S A2012