New Dimensions in Cosmic Lensing
Abstract
I review the current status of combing weak gravitational lensing with depth information from redshifts as a direct probe of dark matter and dark energy in the Universe. In particular I highlight: (1) The first maximum likelihood measurement of the cosmic shear power spectrum, with the COMBO17 dataset (Brown et al 2003); (2) A new method for mapping the 3-D dark matter distribution from weak shear, and its first application to the COMBO17 dataset (Taylor et al 2003); (3) A new method for measuring the Dark Energy of the Universe using purely the geometry of gravitational lensing, based on cross-correlation tomography (Jain & Taylor 2003). I show that this method can constrain the equation of state of the universe and its evolution to a few percent accuracy.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0306239,
title = {New Dimensions in Cosmic Lensing},
author = {Andy Taylor},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0306239},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Talk presented at Davis Inflation Meeting, 2003 (astro-ph/0304225)