Cosmic shear analysis of archival HST/ACS data I. Comparison of early ACS pure parallel data to the HST/GEMS survey

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 468, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 823-847

  Schrabback, T ^a   Erben, T ^a   Simon, P ^a   Miralles, J M ^a,b,c   Schneider, P ^a   Heymans, C ^d   Eifler, T ^a   Fosbury, R A E ^b   Freudling, W ^b   Hetterscheidt, M ^a   Hildebrandt, H ^a   Pirzkal, N ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^c Tècniques d'Avantguarda ^*  (Andorra)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e AURA for the European Space Agency   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology: observations; Gravitational lensing; Large scale structure of universe

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; GALAXIES; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; GEMS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; SURVEYS;

ACS POINT-SPREAD-FUNCTION; ADVANCED CAMERA FOR SURVEYS; LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE OF UNIVERSE;

COSMIC RAY MEASUREMENT;

EID: 34250769601     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20065898     Document Type: Article

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