Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-05-16
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
20 pages, TeX
Scientific paper
We present evidence for a coherent shear signal in a field containing the z=1.2 radio-source PKS1508-05. Since there were no intervening mass concentrations known before targeting this field, we interpret this signal as due to weak lensing by large-scale structure. This result is the outcome of a re-analysis of the observations of Fort et al. (1996) in the fields of three high redshift QSO/radio-sources. Several tests of the robustness of the signal were performed: subdivision of the field and tests using simulated data with randomized ellipticity orientation; using the pixel-to-pixel autocorrelation function method to measure the shear; using the correlation function of the galaxy ellipticities with bootstrap resampling to estimate errors and to find the typical angular separation that dominates the signal. We find that the field of PKS1508-05 contains a robust shear signal that is coherent over the 2' by 2' field. The signal is detected at a high level of significance (99.6%) using the tests described above. The amplitude of the shear on a scale of 1' is about 3%, which is consistent with theoretical expectations from weak lensing by large-scale structure.
Fort Bernard
Jain Bhuvnesh
Mellier Yannick
Schneider Pat
Seitz Stella
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