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CFHTLS weak-lensing constraints on the neutrino masses

Astrophysics 2010-04-15 v2

Abstract

We use measurements of cosmic shear from CFHTLS, combined with WMAP-5 cosmic microwave background anisotropy data, baryonic acoustic oscillations from SDSS and 2dFGRS and supernovae data from SNLS and Gold-set, to constrain the neutrino mass. We obtain a 95% confidence level upper limit of 0.54 eV for the sum of the neutrino masses, and a lower limit of 0.03 eV. The preference for massive neutrinos vanishes when shear-measurement systematics are included in the analysis.

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@article{arxiv.0810.0555,
  title  = {CFHTLS weak-lensing constraints on the neutrino masses},
  author = {Ismael Tereno and Carlo Schimd and Jean-Philippe Uzan and Martin Kilbinger and Frederic H. Vincent and Liping Fu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.0555},
  year   = {2010}
}

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10 pages. Published version

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