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Measuring the Geometry of the Universe from Weak Gravitational Lensing behind Galaxy Groups in the HST COSMOS Survey

  • Authors: James E. Taylor, Richard J. Massey, Alexie Leauthaud, Matthew R. George, Jason Rhodes, Thomas D. Kitching, Peter Capak, Richard Ellis, Alexis Finoguenov, Olivier Ilbert, Eric Jullo, Jean-Paul Kneib, Anton M. Koekemoer, Nick Scoville, and Masayuki Tanaka

Taylor et al. 2012 The Astrophysical Journal 749 127.

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Caption: Figure 3.

Geometric dependence of the lensing signal, plotted vs. the distance ratio x ≡ ω S L , for a WMAP7 cosmology with Ω M = 0.27, . The solid (red) curve shows the theoretical prediction Γ( x) = 0 for x < 1; Γ( x) = 1 − 1/ x for x > 1. Note that the data have not been weighted for cosmological sensitivity (as in Section 4.2); a fit to the unweighted data favors a slightly shorter length scale for x (i.e., lower value of ) but with very large uncertainties.

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