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Title:
Weak Lensing Without Shape Noise

Speaker:
Elisabeth Krause

Abstract:
Weak gravitational lensing imprints a coherent distortion onto the observed shapes of distant galaxies. At the image level, this gravitational shear is degenerate with the intrinsic shape of galaxies, and the weak lensing signal-to-noise from an individual galaxy is of order 0.01. I will describe Kinematic Lensing, a new technique combining imaging and galaxy kinematics to measure weak lensing with signal-to-noise of order one per galaxy.

Link:
https://www.ias.edu/video/weak-lensing-without-shape-noise