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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 535, Issue 1, Pages L9-L12Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/312696
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cosmology : theory; gravitational lensing; large-scale structure of universe
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Weak gravitational lensing observations probe the spectrum and evolution of density fluctuations and the cosmological parameters that govern them, but they are currently limited to small fields and subject to selection biases. We show how the expected signal from large-scale structure arises from the contributions from and correlations between individual halos. We determine the convergence power spectrum as a function of the maximum halo mass and so provide the means to interpret results from surveys that lack high-mass halos either through selection criteria or small fields. Since shot noise from rare massive halos is mainly responsible for the sample variance below 10', our method should aid our ability to extract cosmological information from small fields.
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