Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-02-14
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal 11 pages, 12 figures
Scientific paper
10.1086/340298
We have analysed ~24 square degrees of R_C-band imaging data from the Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS), and measured the excess correlations between galaxy ellipticities on scales ranging from 1 to 30 arcminutes. We have used data from two different telescopes: ~16.4 square degrees of CFHT data and ~7.6 square degrees of CTIO 4-meter data, distributed over 13 widely separated patches. For the first time, a direct comparison can be made of the lensing signal measured using different instruments, which provides an important test of the weak lensing analysis itself. The measurements obtained from the two telescopes agree well. For the lensing analysis we use galaxies down to a limiting magnitude of R_C=24, for which the redshift distribution is known relatively well. This allows us to constrain some cosmological parameters. For the currently favored $\Lambda$CDM model $(\Omega_m=0.3, \Omega_\Lambda=0.7, \Gamma=0.21)$ we obtain $\sigma_8=0.81^{+0.14}_{-0.19}$ (95% confidence), in agreement with the results from Van Waerbeke et al. (2001) which used fainter galaxies (and consequently higher redshift galaxies). The good agreement between these two very different weak lensing studies demonstrates that weak lensing is a useful tool in observational cosmology.
Barrientos Felipe L.
Gladders Michael D.
Hall Patrick B.
Hoekstra Henk
Infante Leopoldo
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