Weak lensing goes bananas: What flexion really measures

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 485, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 363-376

  Schneider, P ^a   Er, X ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR RADIOASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cosmology: diffuse radiation; Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: statistics; Gravitational lensing

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; FUNCTION EVALUATION;

GENERAL (CO); GRAVITATIONAL FIELD (GF); HIGHER ORDER; IMAGE DISTORTIONS; IMAGE SIZES; ISOTROPIC DISTRIBUTIONS; MASS DISTRIBUTIONS; MULTIPLE IMAGES; OBSERVABLE QUANTITY; SHEAR FIELDS; SOURCE ORIENTATIONS; SOURCE SIZES; UNOBSERVABLE; WEAK GRAVITATIONAL LENSING;

SHEARING MACHINES;

EID: 46649086758     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20078631     Document Type: Article

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