Weak Gravitational Lensing

Authors: Peter Schneider (Institut f. Astrophysik, Univ. Bonn)

arXiv: astro-ph/0509252v1 - DOI (astro-ph)

180 pages, 57 figures, to appear in: Kochanek, C.S., Schneider, P., Wambsganss, J.: Gravitational Lensing: Strong, Weak & Micro. Lecture Notes of the 33rd Saas-Fee Advanced Course, G. Meylan, P. Jetzer & P. North (eds.), Springer-Verlag: Berlin, p.273

License: ASSUMED 1991-2003

Abstract: This review forms the Weak Lensing part of the Saas-Fee Advanced Course on Gravitational Lensing. It describes the basicsm applications and results of weak lensing. Contents: (1) Introduction (2) The principles of weak gravitational lensing (3) Observational issues and challenges (4) Clusters of galaxies: Introduction, and strong lensing (5) Mass reconstructions from weak lensing (6) Cosmic shear -- lensing by the LSS (7) Large-scale structure lensing: results (8) The mass of, and associated with galaxies (9) Additional issues in cosmic shear (10) Concluding remarks.

Submitted to arXiv on 09 Sep. 2005

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