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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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Predicted contribution to cosmic shear errors from unidentified structure along the line of sight up to a given source redshift. The contribution is integrated over a 6′ aperture, assuming a WMAP 7 cosmology and the COSMOS source redshift distribution.

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