New Dimensions in Cosmic Lensing

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2003-06-11

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0306239v3

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Talk presented at Davis Inflation Meeting, 2003 (astro-ph/0304225)

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I review the current status of combing weak gravitational lensing with depth information from redshifts as a direct probe of dark matter and dark energy in the Universe. In particular I highlight: (1) The first maximum likelihood measurement of the cosmic shear power spectrum, with the COMBO17 dataset (Brown et al 2003); (2) A new method for mapping the 3-D dark matter distribution from weak shear, and its first application to the COMBO17 dataset (Taylor et al 2003); (3) A new method for measuring the Dark Energy of the Universe using purely the geometry of gravitational lensing, based on cross-correlation tomography (Jain & Taylor 2003). I show that this method can constrain the equation of state of the universe and its evolution to a few percent accuracy.

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