Quantifying Dark Energy with Cosmic Shear
Sarah Bridle
UCL
Jeudi 30/10/2008, 11:00
Bât 709, p 220 (salle Godunov), CEA Saclay, Orme des Merisiers
I will summarise the evidence for dark energy and the basics of cosmic
shear. My talk will then focus on how to obtain the maximum constraining
power from the upcoming experiments to measure dark energy using cosmic
shear. I will introduce the GRavitational lEnsing Accuracy Testing 2008
(GREAT08) Challenge, which is an image analysis competition to improve
shear measurements. I will also describe the potentially confusing
signal from intrinsic galaxy alignments and how it can be addressed.
Contact : pchavegrand
