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Gravitational lensing analysis of the Kilo-Degree Survey

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 454:4 (2015) 3500-3532

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Konrad Kuijken, Catherine Heymans, Hendrik Hildebrandt, Reiko Nakajima, Thomas Erben, Jelte TA de Jong, Massimo Viola, Ami Choi, Henk Hoekstra, Lance Miller, Edo van Uitert, Alexandra Amon, Chris Blake, Margot Brouwer, Axel Buddendiek, Ian Fenech Conti, Martin Eriksen, Aniello Grado, Joachim Harnois-Déraps, Ewout Helmich, Ricardo Herbonnet, Nancy Irisarri, Thomas Kitching, Dominik Klaes, Francesco La Barbera, Nicola Napolitano, Mario Radovich, Peter Schneider, Cristóbal Sifón, Gert Sikkema, Patrick Simon, Alexandru Tudorica, Edwin Valentijn, Gijs Verdoes Kleijn, Ludovic van Waerbeke
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The masses of satellites in GAMA galaxy groups from 100 square degrees of KiDS weak lensing data

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 454:4 (2015) 3938-3951

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Cristóbal Sifón, Marcello Cacciato, Henk Hoekstra, Margot Brouwer, Edo van Uitert, Massimo Viola, Ivan Baldry, Sarah Brough, Michael JI Brown, Ami Choi, Simon P Driver, Thomas Erben, Aniello Grado, Catherine Heymans, Hendrik Hildebrandt, Benjamin Joachimi, Jelte TA de Jong, Konrad Kuijken, John McFarland, Lance Miller, Reiko Nakajima, Nicola Napolitano, Peder Norberg, Aaron SG Robotham, Peter Schneider, Gijs Verdoes Kleijn
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ERRATUM: “HERMES: ALMA IMAGING OF HERSCHEL-SELECTED DUSTY STAR-FORMING GALAXIES” (2015, ApJ, 812, 43)* * Herschel is an ESA space observatory with science instruments provided by European-led Principal Investigator consortia and with important participation from NASA.

The Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 815:2 (2015) 135

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RS Bussmann, D Riechers, A Fialkov, J Scudder, CC Hayward, WI Cowley, J Bock, J Calanog, SC Chapman, A Cooray, F De Bernardis, D Farrah, Hai Fu, R Gavazzi, R Hopwood, RJ Ivison, M Jarvis, C Lacey, A Loeb, SJ Oliver, I Pérez-Fournon, D Rigopoulou, IG Roseboom, Douglas Scott, AJ Smith, JD Vieira, L Wang, J Wardlow
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The XXL Survey: I. Scientific motivations - XMM-Newton observing plan - Follow-up observations and simulation programme

(2015)

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M Pierre, F Pacaud, C Adami, S Alis, B Altieri, B Baran, C Benoist, M Birkinshaw, A Bongiorno, MN Bremer, M Brusa, A Butler, P Ciliegi, L Chiappetti, N Clerc, PS Corasaniti, J Coupon, C De Breuck, J Democles, S Desai, J Delhaize, J Devriendt, Y Dubois, D Eckert, A Elyiv, S Ettori, A Evrard, L Faccioli, A Farahi, C Ferrari, F Finet, S Fotopoulou, N Fourmanoit, P Gandhi, F Gastaldello, R Gastaud, I Georgantopoulos, P Giles, L Guennou, V Guglielmo, C Horellou, K Husband, M Huynh, A Iovino, M Kilbinger, E Koulouridis, S Lavoie, AMC Le Brun, JP Le Fevre, C Lidman, M Lieu, CA Lin, A Mantz, BJ Maughan, S Maurogordato, IG McCarthy, S McGee, JB Melin, O Melnyk, F Menanteau, M Novak, S Paltani, M Plionis, BM Poggianti, D Pomarede, E Pompei, TJ Ponman, ME Ramos-Ceja, P Ranalli, D Rapetti, S Raychaudury, TH Reiprich, H Rottgering, E Rozo, E Rykoff, T Sadibekova, J Santos, JL Sauvageot, C Schimd, M Sereno, GP Smith, V Smolčić, S Snowden, D Spergel, S Stanford, J Surdej, P Valageas, A Valotti, I Valtchanov, C Vignali, J Willis, F Ziparo
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RCSLenS: Cosmic Distances from Weak Lensing

ArXiv 1512.03627 (2015)

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TD Kitching, M Viola, H Hildebrandt, A Choi, T Erben, DG Gilbank, C Heymans, L Miller, R Nakajima, E van Uitert

Abstract:

In this paper we present results of applying the shear-ratio method to the RCSLenS data. The method takes the ratio of the mean of the weak lensing tangential shear signal about galaxy clusters, averaged over all clusters of the same redshift, in multiple background redshift bins. In taking a ratio the mass-dependency of the shear signal is cancelled-out leaving a statistic that is dependent on the geometric part of the lensing kernel only. We apply this method to 535 clusters and measure a cosmology-independent distance-redshift relation to redshifts z~1. In combination with Planck data the method lifts the degeneracies in the CMB measurements, resulting in cosmological parameter constraints of OmegaM=0.31 +/- 0.10 and w0 = -1.02 +/- 0.37, for a flat wCDM cosmology.
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