Ridges in the Dark Energy Survey

Cosmic voids play an important role in our attempt to model the large-scale structure of the Universe. In this paper, we apply it to 2D weak-lensing mass density maps to identify curvilinear filamentary structures. Our results demonstrate the viability of ridge estimation as a precursor for denoising weak lensing quantities to recover the large-scale structure, paving the way for a more versatile and effective search for troughs.