Very weak lensing in the CFHTLS wide: cosmology from cosmic shear in the linear regime

2007/12/06 by L. Fu, E. Semboloni, H. Hoekstra +16 · 8 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Amplitude #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #COSMIC cancer database #Cosmology #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Dark matter #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Matter power spectrum #Scaling #Spectral density #Weak gravitational lensing #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20078522

published as Astron.Astrophys.479:9-25,2008 · 23 pages, 16 figures (A&A accepted)

arxiv created 2007/12/06 · openalex publication_date 2007/12/12 · arxiv updated 2010/04/06 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Aims.We present an exploration of weak lensing by large-scale structure in the linear regime, using the third-year (T0003) CFHTLS Wide data release. Our results place tight constraints on the scaling of the amplitude of the matter power spectrum with the matter density .

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