Observing Dark Worlds: A crowdsourcing experiment for dark matter mapping

Astronomy and Computing

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages 35-44

  Harvey, D ^a   Kitching, T D ^b   Noah Vanhoucke, J ^c   Hamner, B ^c   Salimans, T ^d   Pires, A M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^d ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Clusters gravitational lensing; Cosmology; Dark matter galaxies; Weak

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; GRAVITATION;

BENCHMARK CODES; CITIZEN SCIENCE; CROWDSOURCING; DARK MATTER HALOS; DARK MATTER-GALAXIES; GRAVITATIONAL LENSING; WEAK; WEAK LENSING;

GALAXIES;

EID: 84899873337     PISSN: 22131337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ascom.2014.04.003     Document Type: Article

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