Weak Gravitational Lensing by Voids
Astrophysics
2009-09-25 v1
Abstract
We consider the prospects for detecting weak gravitational lensing by underdensities (voids) in the large-scale matter distribution. We derive the basic expressions for magnification and distortion by spherical voids. Clustering of the background sources and cosmic variance are the main factors which limit in principle the detection of lensing by voids. We conclude that only voids with radii larger than \hm have lensing signal to noise larger than unity.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9811458,
title = {Weak Gravitational Lensing by Voids},
author = {Luca Amendola and Joshua A. Frieman and Ioav Waga},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9811458},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
12 pages, 7 figures, uses mn-1_4.sty file, submitted to MNRAS