Handbook for the GREAT08 challenge: An image analysis competition for cosmological lensing

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 6-37

  Bridle, Sarah ^a   Shawe Taylor, John ^a   Amara, Adam ^b   Applegate, Douglas ^c   Balan, Sreekumar T ^a   Berge, Joel ^d,e,f   Bernstein, Gary ^g   Dahle, Hakon ^h   Erben, Thomas ⁱ   Gill, Mandeep ^j   Heavens, Alan ^k   Heymans, Catherine ^l,s   William High, F ^m   Hoekstra, Henk ⁿ   Jarvis, Mike ^g   Kirk, Donnacha ^a   Kitching, Thomas ^o   Kneib, Jean Paul ^h   Kuijken, Konrad ^p   Lagatutta, David ^q   Mandelbaum, Rachel ^r   Massey, Richard ^e   Mellier, Yannick ^s   Moghaddam, Baback ^d,e   Moudden, Yassir ^f   Nakajima, Reiko ^g   Paulin Henriksson, Stephane ^f   Pires, Sandrine ^f   Rassat, Anais ^f   Refregier, Alexandre ^f   Rhodes, Jason ^d,e   Schrabback, Tim ^p   Semboloni, Elisabetta ⁱ   Shmakova, Marina ^c   van Waerbeke, Ludovic ^l   Witherick, Dugan ^a   Voigt, Lisa ^a   Wittman, David ^q   more..

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f CEA SACLAY   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^h AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^j OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^l UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^m HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^o UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^p LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^q UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^r INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^s INSTITUT D'ASTROPHYSIQUE DE PARIS   (France)

more..

Author keywords

Astronomy; Inference; Inverse problems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865395345     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/08-AOAS222     Document Type: Article

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