Separating intrinsic alignment and galaxy-galaxy lensing

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Blazek, Jonathan ^a   Mandelbaum, Rachel ^b,c   Šeljak, Uros ^a,d,e   Nakajima, Reiko ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

galaxy formation; galaxy surveys; weak gravitational lensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861837541     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/05/041     Document Type: Review

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