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Weak Lensing And The Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Albert Stebbins ,
Tim Mckay  and
Joshua A. Frieman
Albert Stebbins
Affiliation:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Box 500, Batavia IL 60510, USA
Tim Mckay
Affiliation:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Box 500, Batavia IL 60510, USA
Joshua A. Frieman
Affiliation:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Box 500, Batavia IL 60510, USA

Abstract

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While the strategy for the first applications of weak lensing has been to “go deep” it is equally interesting to use one's telescope time to instead “go wide”. The Sloan Survey (SDSS) provides a natural framework for a very wide area weak lensing survey.

Type
Chapter 3: Large Scale Structure
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 173: Astrophysical Applications of Gravitational Lensing , 1996 , pp. 75 - 80
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

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