Cosmic Shear from STIS Pure Parallels: Analysis

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2001-09-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0109508v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 5 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the STScI 2001 spring symposium "The Dark Universe: Matter, Energy and Gra

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The measurement of cosmic shear requires deep imaging with high image quality on many lines of sight to sample the statistics of large-scale structure. The expected distortion of galaxy images by cosmic shear on the STIS angular scale is a few percent, therefore the PSF anisotropy has to be understood and controlled to an accuracy better than 1%. In this poster we present the analysis of the PSF of STIS and a preliminary cosmic shear measurement using archival data from the STIS pure parallel program to show that the STIS camera on-board HST is well suited for our project. The data reduction and catalog production are described in an accompanying paper (astro-ph/0102330).

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