Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-12-06
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 383 (2008) 113 - 118
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
7 pages, 5 figures
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12585.x
We propose to measure the weak cosmic shear using the spatial derivatives of the galaxy surface brightness field. The measurement should be carried out in Fourier space, in which the point spread function (PSF) can be transformed to a desired form with multiplications, and the spatial derivatives can be easily measured. This method is mathematically well defined regardless of the galaxy morphology and the form of the PSF, and involves simple procedures of image processing. Furthermore, with high resolution galaxy images, this approach allows one to probe the shape distortions of galaxy substructures, which can potentially provide much more independent shear measurements than the ellipticities of the whole galaxy. We demonstrate the efficiency of this method using computer-generated mock galaxy images.
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