Cosmic Gravitational Shear from the HST Medium Deep Survey

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2003-11-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0311328v1

Astrophys.J. 598 (2003) L71-L74

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages 2 Postscript figures, uses emulateapj.cls Astrophysical Journal Letters, December 1, 2003

Scientific paper

10.1086/380814

We present a measurement of cosmic shear on scales ranging from $ 10\arcsec $ to $ 2\arcmin $ in 347 WFPC2 images of random fields. Our result is based on shapes measured via image fitting and on a simple statistical technique; careful calibration of each step allows us to quantify our systematic uncertainties and to measure the cosmic shear down to very small angular scales. The WFPC2 images provide a robust measurement of the cosmic shear signal decreasing from $5.2% $ at $ 10\arcsec $ to $2.2% $ at $ 130\arcsec $.

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