Testing the tidal alignment model of galaxy intrinsic alignment

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Blazek, Jonathan ^a   McQuinn, Matthew ^a   Seljak, Uroš ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

cosmological parameters from LSS; galaxy formation; galaxy morphology; weak gravitational lensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957945180     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/05/010     Document Type: Article

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