Cosmic shear analysis of archival HST/ACS data

2006/06/30 by T. Schrabback, T. Erben, P. Simon +15 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing #Astronomy #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysics #COSMIC cancer database #Context (archaeology) #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Galaxy #Geology #Hubble space telescope #Physics #Redshift #Shear (geology) #Weak gravitational lensing #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20065898

Version accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics with 28 pages, 25 figures. A version with full resolution figures can be downloaded from http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~schrabba/papers/cosmic_shear_acs1_v2.pdf

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Abstract

Context.This is the first paper of a series describing our measurement of weak lensing by large-scale structure, also termed “cosmic shear”, using archival observations from the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).

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