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most citedThe Shear TEsting Programme 1: Weak lensing analysis of simulated ground-based observations

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astro-ph.CO2012★ 23 cited

Galaxy-Mass Correlations on 10 Mpc Scales in the Deep Lens Survey

Ami Choi, J. Anthony Tyson, Chris B. Morrison +4

We examine the projected correlation of galaxies with mass from small scales (<few hundred kpc) where individual dark matter halos dominate, out to 15 Mpc where correlated large-sc…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 132 cited

Discovery of a Dissociative Galaxy Cluster Merger with Large Physical Separation

William A. Dawson, David Wittman, Myungkook Jee +10

We present DLSCL J0916.2+2951 (z=0.53), a newly discovered major cluster merger in which the collisional cluster gas has become dissociated from the collisionless galaxies and dark…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 31 cited

Shear-Selected Clusters From the Deep Lens Survey III: Masses from Weak Lensing

Alexandra Abate, D. Wittman, V. E. Margoniner +4

We present weak lensing mass estimates of seven shear-selected galaxy cluster candidates from the Deep Lens Survey. The clusters were previously identified as mass peaks in converg…

astro-ph2007★ 8 cited

Photometric Redshifts and Photometry Errors

D. Wittman, P. Riechers, V. E. Margoniner

We examine the impact of non-Gaussian photometry errors on photometric redshift performance. We find that they greatly increase the scatter, but this can be mitigated to some exten…

astro-ph2007★ 19 cited

Photometric Redshifts and Signal-to-Noise

V. E. Margoniner, D. M. Wittman

We investigate the impact of photometric signal-to-noise (S/N) on the precision of photometric redshifts in multi-band imaging surveys, using both simulations and real data. We sim…

astro-ph2007★ 31 cited

Probing the Relation Between X-ray-Derived and Weak-Lensing-Derived Masses for Shear-Selected Galaxy Clusters: I. A781

Neelima Sehgal, John P. Hughes, David Wittman +4

We compare X-ray and weak-lensing masses for four galaxy clusters that comprise the top-ranked shear-selected cluster system in the Deep Lens Survey. The weak-lensing observations…