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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 702, Issue 2, Pages 980-988Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/702/2/980
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dark matter; galaxies: clusters: general; gravitational lensing; large-scale structure of universe
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- NSF [AST-0134753, AST-0708433]
- United States Department of Energy [DE-AC02-07CH11359]
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We present a regularized maximum likelihood weak-lensing reconstruction of the Deep Lens Survey F2 field (4 deg(2)). High signal-to-noise ratio peaks in our lensing significance map appear to be associated with possible projected filamentary structures. The largest apparent structure extends for over a degree in the field and has contributions from known optical clusters at three redshifts (z similar to 0.3, 0.43, 0.5). Noise in weak-lensing reconstructions is known to potentially cause false positives; we use Monte Carlo techniques to estimate the contamination in our sample, and find that 10%-25% of the peaks are expected to be false detections. For significant lensing peaks, we estimate the total signal-to-noise ratio of detection using a method that accounts for pixel-to-pixel correlations in our reconstruction. We also report the detection of a candidate relative underdensity in the F2 field with a total signal-to-noise ratio of similar to 5.5.
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