Weak gravitational lensing and intrinsic galaxy alignments
This thesis describes an investigation into weak gravitational lensing, a unique and powerful astronomical tool for the study of dark matter on large scales. Lensing distorts background images, inducing correlations in the observed ellipticities of galaxies, and these correlations can be used to est...
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University of Oxford
2003
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.398117 |