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SHELS: The Hectospec Lensing Survey

Astrophysics 2009-11-13 v2

Abstract

The Smithsonian Hectospec Lensing Survey (SHELS) combines a large deep complete redshift survey with a weak lensing map from the Deep Lens Survey (Wittman et al. 2002; 2005). We use maps of the velocity dispersion based on systems identified in the redshift survey to compare the three-dimensional matter distribution with the two-dimensional projection mapped by weak lensing. We demonstrate directly that the lensing map images the three-dimensional matter distribution obtained from the kinematic data.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0510351,
  title  = {SHELS: The Hectospec Lensing Survey},
  author = {Margaret J. Geller and Ian P. Dell'Antonio and Michael J. Kurtz and Massimo Ramella and Daniel G. Fabricant and Nelson Caldwell and J. Anthony Tyson and David Wittman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0510351},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Astrophysical Journal Letters 9pages, 3 figures, accepted, corrected typos

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