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Weak Lensing without Shape Noise

TYPEAstrophysics Seminar
Speaker:Elisabeth Krause
Affiliation:Steward Observatory
Date:11.12.2022
Time:10:30 - 11:30
Location:Lidow 620
Abstract:

Weak gravitational lensing imprints a coherent distortion onto the observed shapes of distant galaxies. At the image level, this gravitational shear is degenerate with the intrinsic shape of galaxies, and the weak lensing signal-to-noise from an individual galaxy is of order 0.01. I will describe Kinematic Lensing, a new technique combining imaging and galaxy kinematics to measure weak lensing with signal-to-noise of order one per galaxy