The effect of distant large scale structure on weak lensing mass estimates

Details The effect of distant large scale structure on weak lensing mass estimates The effect of distant large scale structure on weak lensing mass estimates

2001-02-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0102368v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics 11 pages, 9 figures

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20010293

We quantify the uncertainty in weak lensing mass estimates of clusters of galaxies, caused by distant (uncorrelated) large scale structure along the line of sight. We find that the effect is fairly small for deep observations (20

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