'Weak lensing' presentation slideshows

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Project

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Project. Steven M. Kahn Friday Seminar Cornell University January 28, 2005. The LSST Consortium. LSST Organization. Three main sub-project teams: Telescope/Site (NSF): NOAO, U. of A rizona Camera (DOE) :

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Cosmological structure formation and dark energy

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3D Cosmic Shear and darkCAM

3D Cosmic Shear and darkCAM. Alan Heavens Institute for Astronomy University of Edinburgh UK EDEN in Paris Dec 9 2005. OUTLINE OF TALK:. What effects of DE does lensing probe? Why 3D lensing? The darkCAM project. Effects of w. Distance-redshift relations

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OBSERVING DARK ENERGY PRESENT STATUS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS

OBSERVING DARK ENERGY PRESENT STATUS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS. STEEN HANNESTAD UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS RINGBERG, 28 APRIL 2005. THE EVOLUTION EQUATIONS FOR THE SCALE FACTOR IN STANDARD FRW COSMOLOGY. THE CONDITION FOR ACCELERATION IS. ANY COMPONENT OF THE PRESENT ENERGY DENSITY

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The Cosmological Model: an overview and an outlook

The Cosmological Model: an overview and an outlook. Alan Heavens University of Edinburgh. The Standard Cosmological Model. Universe started with Big Bang Einstein gravity CDM, baryons, photons (++) Cosmological Constant Inflation adiabatic, near-gaussian fluctuations. Evidence.

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Theoretical Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics at Caltech

Theoretical Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics at Caltech. Marc Kamionkowski August 10, 2005. Astronomy/Astrophysics at Caltech:. Also , SIRTF, GALEX, Hershel..... and everything at JPL. And Carnegie Observatories down the road.

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Will Percival The University of Portsmouth

The Theory/Observation connection lecture 5 the theory behind (selected) observations of structure formation. Will Percival The University of Portsmouth. Lecture outline. Dark Energy and structure formation peculiar velocities redshift space distortions cluster counts weak lensing

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Eric Linder 21 December 2011

The Direction of Gravity. Eric Linder 21 December 2011. UC Berkeley & Berkeley Lab Institute of the Early Universe, Korea. The Direction of Gravity. Cosmic acceleration : Gravity is pulling out not down! Is gravity ( G Newton ) constant, or strengthening, or weakening with time?

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Particle Physicists and Astrophysicists working together?

Particle Physicists and Astrophysicists working together?.

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Observational Probes of Dark Energy

Observational Probes of Dark Energy. Observational cosmology: parameters (H 0 , ? 0 ) => evolution (a(t), g(z,k)). Timothy McKay University of Michigan Department of Physics. For the future: from parameter measurement => testing models. Precision cosmology.

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Eric Linder University of California, Berkeley Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Course on Dark Energy Cosmology at the Beach 2009. Eric Linder University of California, Berkeley Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. JDEM constraints. Outline. Lecture 1: Dark Energy in Space The panoply of observations Lecture 2: Dark Energy in Theory The garden of models

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Clusters in the perspective of Cosmology

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The Science Case for the Dark Energy Survey

The Science Case for the Dark Energy Survey. James Annis For the DES Collaboration. We propose to make precision measurements of Dark Energy Cluster counting, weak lensing and supernovae Independent measurements by mapping the cosmological density field to z=1

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Cosmological Weak Lensing With SKA in the Planck era

Cosmological Weak Lensing With SKA in the Planck era. Y. Mellier. SKA, IAP, October 27 , 2006. Cosmic shear : propagation of light through the cosmic web. ~ Gpc. Cosmological distortion field projected on the sky.

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Bin Wang Fudan University Shanghai

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SDSS Cluster Abundances

SDSS Cluster Abundances. Cluster Collaborators Steve Kent Rita Kim Tim Mcay Erin Sheldon Bob Nichol Chris Miller Tomo Goto Neta Bahcall Daniel Eisenstein Marc Postman Cosmology Collaborators: Martin Makler Steve Kent Scott Dodelson Josh Friemann Tim Mckay Erin Sheldon.

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Adam Amara, Thomas Kitching , Anais Rassat, Alexandre Refregier

Adam Amara, Thomas Kitching , Anais Rassat, Alexandre Refregier. Amara & Refregier (2007) weak lensing tomography Taylor, Kitching, Heavens, Bacon (2007) shear ratio with BAO and SNIa priors Heavens, Kitching, Taylor (2007 ) 3D cosmic shear with BAO and SNIa priors

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Simulation Workshop Agenda

Simulation Workshop Agenda. Kirk Gilmore (Lead Manager of the LSST Camera team) 9:00am - 9:05 am: Welcome Address Philip Pinto (Head of the full LSST simulation program) 9:05am - 9:25 am: Overview of the LSST Simulation Program and the LSST_EtoE-SS.

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