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Shear-flexion cross-talk in weak-lensing measurements

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Gravitational flexion, caused by derivatives of the gravitational tidal field, is potentially important for the analysis of the dark-matter distribution in gravitational lenses, such as galaxy clusters or the dark-matter haloes of galaxies. Flexion estimates rely on measurements of galaxy-shape dist...

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Main Authors: Viola, Massimo (Author) , Melchior, Peter (Author) , Bartelmann, Matthias (Author)
Format: Article (Journal) Chapter/Article
Language:English
Published: 22 Sep 2011
In: Arxiv

Online Access:Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.3920
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Author Notes:Massimo Viola, Peter Melchior, Matthias Bartelmann

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