CFHTLenS: The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey by Heymans, C, Waerbeke, L, Miller, L, Erben, T, Hildebrandt, H, Hoekstra, H, Kitching, T, Mellier, Y, Simon, P, Bonnett, C, Coupon, J, Fu, L, Harnois-D'eraps, J, Hudson, M, Kilbinger, M, Kuijken, K, Rowe, B, Schrabback, T, Semboloni, E, Uitert, E, Vafaei, S, Velander, M

“…We present the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS) that accurately determines a weak gravitational lensing signal from the full 154 square degrees of deep multi-colour data obtained by the CFHT Legacy Survey. …”

CFHTLenS: The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey - Imaging Data and Catalogue Products by Erben, T, Hildebrandt, H, Miller, L, Waerbeke, L, Heymans, C, Hoekstra, H, Kitching, T, Mellier, Y, Benjamin, J, Blake, C, Bonnett, C, Cordes, O, Coupon, J, Fu, L, Gavazzi, R, Gillis, B, Grocutt, E, Gwyn, S, Holhjem, K, Hudson, M, Kilbinger, M, Kuijken, K, Milkeraitis, M, Rowe, B, Schrabback, T

“…We present data products from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS). CFHTLenS is based on the Wide component of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey (CFHTLS). …”

Overview of the GYES instrument: A multifibre high-resolution spectrograph for the prime focus of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope by Mignot, S, Cohen, M, Dalton, G, Dournaux, J, Fasola, G, Guinouard, I, Horville, D, Huet, J, Laporte, P, Lewis, I, Royer, F

“…The GYES instrument is a high resolution (∼ 20,000) spectrometer proposed for installation on the Canada- France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) to perform this survey in the northern hemisphere. …”

Bayesian galaxy shape measurement for weak lensing surveys - III. Application to the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey by Miller, L, Heymans, C, Kitching, T, van Waerbeke, L, Erben, T, Hildebrandt, H, Hoekstra, H, Mellier, Y, Rowe, B, Coupon, J, Dietrich, J, Fu, L, Harnois-Deraps, J, Hudson, M, Kilbinger, M, Kuijken, K, Schrabback, T, Semboloni, E, Vafaei, S, Velander, M

“…A likelihood-based method for measuring weak gravitational lensing shear in deep galaxy surveys is described and applied to the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS). …”

THE TYPE Ia SUPERNOVA RATE IN RADIO AND INFRARED GALAXIES FROM THE CANADA-FRANCE-HAWAII TELESCOPE SUPERNOVA LEGACY SURVEY by Graham, M, Pritchet, C, Sullivan, M, Howell, D, Gwyn, S, Astier, P, Balland, C, Basa, S, Carlberg, R, Conley, A, Fouchez, D, Guy, J, Hardin, D, Hook, I, Pain, R, Perrett, K, Regnault, N, Rich, J, Balam, D, Fabbro, S, Hsiao, E, Mourao, A, Palanque-Delabrouille, N, Perlmutter, S, Ruhlman-Kleider, V

The type Ia supernova rate in radio and infrared galaxies from the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope supernova legacy survey by Graham, M, Pritchet, C, Sullivan, M, Howell, D, Gwyn, S, Astier, P, Balland, C, Basa, S, Carlberg, R, Conley, A, Fouchez, D, Guy, J, Hardin, D, Hook, I, Pain, R, Perrett, K, Regnault, N, Rich, J, Balam, D, Fabbro, S, Hsiao, E, Mourao, A, Palanque-Delabrouille, N, Perlmutter, S, Ruhlman-Kleider, V

“…We have combined the large SNIa database of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Supernova Legacy Survey and catalogs of galaxies with photometric redshifts, Very Large Array 1.4GHz radio sources, and Spitzer infrared sources. …”

Bayesian Galaxy Shape Measurement for Weak Lensing Surveys - III. Application to the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey by Miller, L, Heymans, C, Kitching, T, Waerbeke, L, Erben, T, Hildebrandt, H, Hoekstra, H, Mellier, Y, Rowe, B, Coupon, J, Dietrich, J, Fu, L, Harnois-Deraps, J, Hudson, M, Kilbinger, M, Kuijken, K, Schrabback, T, Semboloni, E, Vafaei, S, Velander, M

“…A likelihood-based method for measuring weak gravitational lensing shear in deep galaxy surveys is described and applied to the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS). …”

Weak-lensing mass calibration of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope equatorial Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster sample with the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope stripe 82 survey by Battaglia, N, Leauthaud, A, Miyatake, H, Hasselfield, M, Gralla, M, Allison, R, Bond, J, Calabrese, E, Crichton, D, Devlin, M, Dunkley, J, Dünner, R, Erben, T, Ferrara, S, Halpern, M, Hilton, M, Hill, J, Hincks, A, Hložek, R, Huffenberger, K, Hughes, J, Kneib, J, Kosowsky, A, Makler, M, Marriage, T, Menanteau, F, Miller, L, Moodley, K, Moraes, B, Niemack, M, Page, L, Shan, H, Sehgal, N, Sherwin, B, Sievers, J, Sifón, C, Spergel, D, Staggs, S, Taylor, J, Thornton, R, Waerbeke, L, Wollack, E

“…We present weak lensing mass measurements from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Stripe 82 Survey for galaxy clusters selected through their high signal-to-noise thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) signal measured with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). …”

CFHTLenS: Improving the quality of photometric redshifts with precision photometry by Hildebrandt, H, Erben, T, Kuijken, K, van Waerbeke, L, Heymans, C, Coupon, J, Benjamin, J, Bonnett, C, Fu, L, Hoekstra, H, Kitching, T, Mellier, Y, Miller, L, Velander, M, Hudson, M, Rowe, B, Schrabback, T, Semboloni, E, Benítez, N

“…We use data from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey which have been re-processed by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS) team in order to carry out a number of weak gravitational lensing studies. …”

CFHTLenS tomographic weak lensing cosmological parameter constraints: Mitigating the impact of intrinsic galaxy alignments by Heymans, C, Grocutt, E, Heavens, A, Kilbinger, M, Kitching, T, Simpson, F, Benjamin, J, Erben, T, Hildebrandt, H, Hoekstra, H, Mellier, Y, Miller, L, Waerbeke, L, Brown, M, Coupon, J, Fu, L, Harnois-Deraps, J, Hudson, M, Kuijken, K, Rowe, B, Schrabback, T, Semboloni, E, Vafaei, S, Velander, M

“…We present a finely-binned tomographic weak lensing analysis of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey, CFHTLenS, mitigating contamination to the signal from the presence of intrinsic galaxy alignments via the simultaneous fit of a cosmological model and an intrinsic alignment model. …”

CFHTLenS: Higher-order galaxy-mass correlations probed by galaxy-galaxy-galaxy lensing by Simon, P, Erben, T, Schneider, P, Heymans, C, Hildebrandt, H, Hoekstra, H, Kitching, T, Mellier, Y, Miller, L, Waerbeke, L, Bonnett, C, Coupon, J, Fu, L, Hudson, M, Kuijken, K, Rowe, B, Schrabback, T, Semboloni, E, Velander, M

“…We apply our method to the state-of-the-art Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS), spanning 154 square degrees. …”

M33 Cepheids from CFHT/MegaCam Survey by Samuel Adair, Chien-Hsiu Lee

“…In this paper we analyze Sloan g, r, i archival imaging data of M33 taken by Hartman et al. using MegaCam at the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope. To determine the distance to the M33 galaxy, we performed several analytical steps to identify its Cepheid population. …”
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Precision calculations of the cosmic shear power spectrum projection by Kilbinger, M, Heymans, C, Asgari, M, Joudaki, S, Schneider, P, Simon, P, Van Waerbeke, L, Harnois-Déraps, J, Hildebrandt, H, Köhlinger, F, Kuijken, K, Viola, M

“…This is demonstrated using data from the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey.We find that the reported tension with Planck cosmic microwave background temperature anisotropy results cannot be alleviated. …”

CFHTLenS: Testing the Laws of Gravity with Tomographic Weak Lensing and Redshift Space Distortions by Simpson, F, Heymans, C, Parkinson, D, Blake, C, Kilbinger, M, Benjamin, J, Erben, T, Hildebrandt, H, Hoekstra, H, Kitching, T, Mellier, Y, Miller, L, Waerbeke, L, Coupon, J, Fu, L, Harnois-Déraps, J, Hudson, M, Kuijken, K, Rowe, B, Schrabback, T, Semboloni, E, Vafaei, S, Velander, M

“…We perform such an analysis by combining measurements of cosmic shear tomography from the Canada-France Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS) with the growth of structure from the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey and the Six-degree-Field Galaxy Survey (6dFGS), producing the strongest existing joint constraints on the metric potentials that describe general theories of gravity. …”

Bayesian analysis of weak gravitational lensing and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich data for six galaxy clusters by Hurley-Walker, N, Bridle, S, Cypriano, E, Davies, M, Erben, T, Feroz, F, Franzen, T, Grainge, K, Hobson, M, Lasenby, A, Marshall, P, Olamaie, M, Pooley, G, Rodríguez-Gonzálvez, C, Saunders, R, Scaife, A, Schammel, M, Scott, P, Shimwell, T, Titterington, D, Waldram, E, Zwart, J

“…We present an analysis of observations made with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI) and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) of six galaxy clusters in a redshift range of 0.16-0.41. …”

GYES, a multifibre spectrograph for the CFHT by Bonifacio, P, Mignot, S, Dournaux, J, François, P, Caffau, E, Royer, F, Babusiaux, C, Arenou, F, Balkowski, C, Bienaymé, O, Briot, D, Carlberg, R, Cohen, M, Dalton, G, Famaey, B, Fasola, G, Frémat, Y, Gómez, A, Haywood, M, Hill, V, Huet, J, Katz, D, Horville, D, Kudritzky, R, Lallement, R

“…We have chosen the name of GYES, one of the mythological giants with one hundred arms, offspring of Gaia and Uranus, for our instrument study of a multifibre spectrograph for the prime focus of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. Such an instrument could provide an excellent ground-based complement for the Gaia mission and a northern complement to the HERMES project on the AAT. …”

Subaru FOCAS spectroscopic observations of high-redshift supernovae by Morokuma, T, Tokita, K, Lidman, C, Doi, M, Yasuda, N, Aldering, G, Amanullah, R, Barbary, K, Dawson, K, Fadeyev, V, Fakhouri, H, Goldhaber, G, Goobar, A, Hattori, T, Hayano, J, Hook, I, Andrew Howell, D, Furusawa, H, Ihara, Y, Kashikawa, N, Knop, R, Konishi, K, Meyers, J, Oda, T, Pain, R

“…These SNe were found in SN surveys with Suprime-Cam on Subaru, the CFH 12k camera on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, and the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space Telescope. …”

A survey for low-luminosity quasars at redshift z similar to 5 by Sharp, R, Crampton, D, Hook, I, McMahon, R

“…We present the results of a multicolour (VIZ) survey for low-luminosity (M B < -23.5) quasars with z ∼ 5 using the 12K CCD mosaic camera on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT). The survey covers 1.8 deg 2 to a limiting magnitude of m z = 22.5(Vega), about two magnitudes fainter than the SDSS (Sloan Digital Sky Survey) quasar survey. …”

Models of gravitational lens candidates from SpaceWarps CFHTLS by Küng, R, Saha, P, Ferreras, I, Baeten, E, Coles, J, Cornen, C, Macmillan, C, Marshall, P, More, A, Oswald, L, Verma, A, Wilcox, JK

“…We report modelling follow-up of recently discovered gravitational-lens candidates in the Canada France Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey. Lens modelling was done by a small group of specially interested volunteers from the SpaceWarps citizen-science community who originally found the candidate lenses. …”

The impact of high spatial frequency atmospheric distortions on weak lensing measurements by Heymans, C, Rowe, B, Hoekstra, H, Miller, L, Erben, T, Kitching, T, Waerbeke, L

“…We analyse dense stellar fields imaged at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope to quantify the degree of high spatial frequency variation in ground-based imaging Point Spread Functions and compare our results to models of atmospheric turbulence. …”