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Masamune Oguri1,2, Satoshi Miyazaki3,4
1Center for Frontier Science, Chiba University, Inage-ku, Chiba, Japan.
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Clusters of galaxies can be identified from the peaks in weak lensing aperture mass maps constructed from weak lensing shear catalogs. Such purely gravitational cluster selection differs considerably from traditional cluster selection based on the baryonic properties of clusters. In this review, we present the basics and applications of weak lensing shear-selected cluster samples. Detailed studies of the baryonic properties of shear-selected clusters shed new light on cluster astrophysics. The purely gravitational selection indicates that the selection function can be quantified more easily and robustly, which is crucial for deriving accurate cosmological constraints from the abundance of shear-selected clusters. Recent advances in shear-selected cluster studies are driven by the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam survey, in which more than 300 shear-selected clusters with a signal-to-noise ratio > 5 were identified. It is argued that various systematic effects in cosmological analysis can be mitigated by carefully selecting the setup of the analysis, including the selection of kernel functions and the source galaxy sample.
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