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Cosmology in the Nonlinear Regime with Weak Gravitational Lensing.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Cosmology in the Nonlinear Regime with Weak Gravitational Lensing./
Author:	Liu, Jia.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	161 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-12(E), Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-12B(E).
Subject:	Astronomy. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10128513
ISBN:	9781339865256

Cosmology in the Nonlinear Regime with Weak Gravitational Lensing.
Liu, Jia.

Cosmology in the Nonlinear Regime with Weak Gravitational Lensing. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 161 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-12(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2016.

This thesis investigates weak lensing (WL) of galaxies and the cosmic microwave back- ground (CMB) in the nonlinear regime. WL describes the effect of bending of background light rays by foreground matter ("lens"). It is sensitive to the large scale structure of the universe, and hence is a promising method to answer some unsolved fundamental questions in physics, such as the nature of dark energy and the total mass of neutrinos. WL datasets of unprecedented precision will come on-line in the early 2020s. This presents an exciting yet challenging task for the WL community: how do we extract the maximum amount of information from lensing observables, while minimizing the impact of systematics?

ISBN: 9781339865256Subjects--Topical Terms:

517668
Astronomy.

Cosmology in the Nonlinear Regime with Weak Gravitational Lensing.
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