The Redshift Distribution of Distant Sources from Gravitational Depletion in Clusters

1998/02/05 by Y. Mellier, Mellier, Y.
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9802063

To appear in "The Young Universe". Ed. S. D'Odorico, A. Fontana & E. Giallongo, ASP Conf. Ser. Latex with paspconf.sty and psfig.sty. 4 pages, 2 figures. 43. Kb gzipped tar file

arxiv created 1998/02/05 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

Gravitational lensing can be used to analyze the redshift distribution of faint galaxies. In particular the magnification bias modifies locally the galaxy number density of lensed sources observed in lensing clusters. This depletion area probes the redshift distribution of galaxies beyond B=25. In this proceeding I present this new tool to infer the redhsift distribution of faint galaxies.

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