The Weak Lensing Masses of Filaments between Luminous Red Galaxies
  In the standard model of non-linear structure formation, a cosmic web of
dark-matter dominated filaments connects dark matter halos. In this paper, we
stack the weak lensing signal of an ensemble of filaments between groups and
clusters of galaxies. Specifically, we detect the weak lensing signal, using
CFHTLenS galaxy ellipticities, from stacked filaments between SDSS-III/BOSS
luminous red galaxies (LRGs). As a control, we compare the physical LRG pairs
with projected LRG pairs that are more widely separated in redshift space. We
detect the excess filament mass density in the projected pairs at the $5\sigma$
level, finding a mass of $(1.6 \pm 0.3) \times 10^{13} M_{\odot}$ for a stacked
filament region 7.1 $h^{-1}$ Mpc long and 2.5 $h^{-1}$ Mpc wide. This filament
signal is compared with a model based on the three-point
galaxy-galaxy-convergence correlation function, as developed in Clampitt, Jain
& Takada (2014), yielding reasonable agreement.
