The reliability of shape measurements

M. Kleinheinrich; T. Erben; K. Meisenheimer; H. W. Rix; M. Schirmer; P. Schneider; C. Wolf

The reliability of shape measurements

M. Kleinheinrich^*, T. Erben, K. Meisenheimer, H. W. Rix, M. Schirmer, P. Schneider, C. Wolf

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Abstract

We use observations of the Chandra Deep Field South taken over two years with the Wide Field Imager at the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope on La Silla, Chile, to investigate how reliably shapes of faint objects can be recovered. This is a crucial test for all weak lensing studies where one uses small distortions of background galaxies to infer intervening mass distributions of galaxies, clusters of galaxies or large-scale-structure.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	36
Number of pages	1
Journal	Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica: Serie de Conferencias
Volume	17
Publication status	Published - 2003
Externally published	Yes
Event	Galaxy Evolution: Theory and Observations - Cozumel, Mexico Duration: 8 Apr 2002 → 12 Apr 2002

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The reliability of shape measurements

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