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astro-ph2006★ 93 cited
How accurate is Limber's equation?
P. Simon
The so-called Limber equation is widely used in the literature to relate the projected angular clustering of galaxies to the spatial clustering of galaxies in an approximate way. T…
astro-ph2006★ 881 cited
Why your model parameter confidences might be too optimistic -- unbiased estimation of the inverse covariance matrix
J. Hartlap, P. Simon, P. Schneider
AIMS. The maximum-likelihood method is the standard approach to obtain model fits to observational data and the corresponding confidence regions. We investigate possible sources of…
astro-ph2006★ 42 cited
GaBoDS: The Garching-Bonn Deep Survey: VII. Probing galaxy bias using weak gravitational lensing
P. Simon, M. Hetterscheidt, M. Schirmer +4
[ABRIDGED] The weak gravitational lensing effect is used to infer matter density fluctuations within the field-of-view of the Garching-Bonn Deep Survey (GaBoDS). This information i…