A distortion of very-high-redshift galaxy number counts by gravitational lensing

Nature

Volumn 469, Issue 7329, 2011, Pages 181-184

  Wyithe, J Stuart B ^a   Yan, Haojing ^b   Windhorst, Rogier A ^c   Mao, Shude ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; MAGNITUDE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVEY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOS; GRAVITY; LUMINANCE; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY;

EID: 78651381471     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09619     Document Type: Article

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