Wide-field optical and infrared observations of weak gravitational lensing

Gravitational lensing is a powerful and versatile tool that allows us to directly link the observed distribution of light with the underlying distribution of dark matter. In this thesis, I apply several weak gravitational lensing techniques to clusters and superclusters of galaxies observed with new...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gray, M.
Published: University of Cambridge 2001
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.599630