Mass-sheet degeneracy: Fundamental limit on the cluster mass reconstruction from statistical (weak) lensing

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 424, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 13-22

  Bradac M ^a,b   Lombardi, M ^a,c   Schneider, P ^a  

^a Inst Astrophysik E   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR RADIOASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dark matter; Galaxies: clusters: general; Gravitational lensing

Indexed keywords

COLD DARK MATTER (CDM); COSMOLOGY; GRAVITATIONAL LENSING; STATISTICAL LENSING;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GALAXIES; GRAVITATION; LENSES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 4444238005     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20035744     Document Type: Article

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