The detection and measurement of cosmic shear
This thesis presents the detection of weak gravitational lensing by large-scale structure, also known as 'cosmic shear'. This effect, in which the images of faint background galaxies are coherently distorted by the gravitational potential of intervening foreground structures, is poised to...
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University of Cambridge
2002
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.596237 |