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Measuring galaxy biasing with gravitational weak lensing

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Gravitational weak lensing by large scale structures is view as a tool to probe the bias relation between the mass and the light distributions. It is explained how a particular statistic can be used to deproject the 2D mass distribution observed by weak lensing, in order to probe the bias at a given redshift and a given scale. Dependence with the cosmology is written, and observational issues are pointed out, like the importance of the redshift distribution of the galaxies. A signal to noise analysis shows that the scale dependence of the bias can be measured with a rather modest lensing survey size.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9807041,
  title  = {Measuring galaxy biasing with gravitational weak lensing},
  author = {L. Van Waerbeke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9807041},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

4 pages, To appear in `Wide-field surveys in cosmology', proceedings of XIV IAP meeting

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