Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-08-29
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
9 pages, Plain TeX, no figures, submitted to ApJL
Scientific paper
10.1086/305559
The correlation between cosmic shear as measured by the image distortion of high-redshift galaxies and the number counts of foreground galaxies is calculated. For a given power spectrum of the cosmic density fluctuations, this correlation is proportional to the bias factor, which can thus directly be measured. In addition, this correlation provides a first-order measure of cosmic shear and is therefore easier to observe than quadratic measures hitherto proposed. Analytic approximations show that the expected signal-to-noise ratio of the correlation is large, so that a significant detection is possible with a moderate amount of data; in particular, it is predicted that the ongoing ESO Imaging Survey (EIS) will be able to detect this correlation on scales of $\sim 10'$ at a 3-$\sigma$ level, and at with higher significance on smaller angular scales.
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