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Cosmological Dark Matter as Seen with Weak Gravitational Lensing

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The distortion of images of faint high-redshift galaxies by the tidal gravitational field of mass concentrations allows to investigate the mass distribution of individual galaxy clusters, the investigation of the statistical properties of the mass distribution in galaxy halos, and the detection of dark halos without any reference to their luminosity. In addition, the statistical properties of the image distortion field on large scales can be used to infer directly the power spectrum of cosmological density fluctuations and to find (dark) matter concentrations purely from their mass properties. I will outline the basic methods of this new research field in extragalactic astrophysics, and present several recent results; in particular, a high-resolution mass map of a high-redshift cluster of galaxies is presented and compared to the light distribution.

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Schneider, P. (1998). Cosmological Dark Matter as Seen with Weak Gravitational Lensing. In: Riffert, H., Ruder, H., Nollert, HP., Hehl, F.W. (eds) Relativistic Astrophysics. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-11294-5_2

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