Measuring the dark universe with gravitational lensing

This thesis presents the use of gravitational lensing as a measure of the large-scale structure in the Universe. We detail various statistical techniques for performing and interpreting these measurements. We show evidence for the cross-correlation of cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing with t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Allison, Rupert
Other Authors: Dunkley, Joanna
Published: University of Oxford 2016
Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.728750