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astro-ph2001
Cosmic Shear with Keck: Systematic Effects
Richard Massey, David Bacon, Alexandre Refregier +1
Cosmic shear probes the distribution of dark matter via gravitational lensing of distant, background galaxies. We describe our cosmic shear survey consisting of deep blank fields o…
astro-ph2000
Detection of Cosmic Shear with the William Herschel Telescope
David Bacon, Alexandre Refregier, Richard Ellis
Gravitational lensing by large-scale structure induces weak coherent alignments in the shapes of background galaxies. Here we present evidence for the detection of this `cosmic she…