Thesis
Weak gravitational lensing and intrinsic galaxy alignments
- Abstract:
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This thesis describes an investigation into weak gravitational lensing, a unique and powerful astronomical tool for the study of dark matter on large scales. Lensing distorts background images, inducing correlations in the observed ellipticities of galaxies, and these correlations can be used to estimate many characteristics of the Universe. Key to all weak lensing studies is a reliable and unbiased method to detect weak lensing distortions from observed galaxy images that are contaminate...
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+ Miller, L
- Division:
- MPLS
- Department:
- Physics
- Role:
- Supervisor
+ Heavens, A
- Division:
- MPLS
- Department:
- Physics
- Role:
- Supervisor
- Publication date:
- 2003
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Language:
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English
- Keywords:
- Subjects:
- UUID:
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uuid:c86f8783-47b1-4cd0-bffa-0bc948b67974
- Local pid:
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ora:6047
- Deposit date:
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2012-02-02
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- Copyright holder:
- Heymans, C
- Copyright date:
- 2003
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