The shapes and alignments of dark matter halos

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Schneider, Michael D ^a,b   Frenk, Carlos S ^b   Cole, Shaun ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cosmic web; dark matter simulations; galaxy clusters; weak gravitational lensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861793437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/05/030     Document Type: Article

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