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ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Volume 389, Issue 1, Pages L28-L32Publisher
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20020700
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cosmology; gravitational lensing; large scale structure
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We have detected non-Gaussian signatures in the VIRMOS-DESCART weak lensing survey from a measurement of the three-point shear correlation function, following the method developed by Bernardeau et al. (2002). We obtain a 2.4sigma signal over four independent angular bins, or equivalently, a 4.9-sigma confidence level detection with respect to measurements errors on scale of about 2 to 4 arcmin. The amplitude and the shape of the signal are consistent with theoretical expectations obtained from ray-tracing simulations. This result supports the idea that the measure corresponds to a cosmological signal due to the gravitational instability dynamics. Its properties could be used to put constraints on the cosmological parameters, in particular on the density parameter of the Universe, but the error level as well as the cosmic variance are still too large to permit secure conclusions.
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