XIth School of Cosmology
  17 - 22 September 2012 at IESC, Cargèse
Gravitational Lenses
their impact in the study of galaxies and
Cosmology

Weak lensing studies of dark matter halos around galaxies

Henk HOEKSTRAL
Leiden Observatory

Chapters

  1. The galaxy-mass cross-correlation function
    1. Introduction
    2. Relation to the power spectrum
    3. The halo model
  2. Properties of dark matter halos
    1. Masses of dark matter halos
    2. Sizes of dark matter halos
    3. Shapes of dark matter halos

Abstract

In these lectures I will introduce an application of a weak gravitational lensing that provides an important direct link to the study of the formation and evolution of galaxies: what are the (global) properties of the dark matter halos as a function of their baryonic properties. The lensing signal around galaxies, i.e. the galaxy-mass cross-correlation function can be used for cosmology, but can also decomposed in the context of the halo model, which will also be discussed. Finally I will review a number of applications, the latest results, and what is needed to make further progress.

Bibliography

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      stellar mass, luminosity, morphology and environment dependencies"
      R. Mandelbaum et al. 2006, MNRAS, 368, 715
    • "Properties of Galaxy Dark Matter Halos from Weak Lensing"
      H. Hoekstra et al. 2004, ApJ, 606, 67
    • "Weak Lensing Study of Galaxy Biasing"
      H. Hoekstra et al. 2002, ApJ, 577, 604
    • "On Combining Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing to Unveil Galaxy Biasing via the Halo Model"
      M. Cacciato et al. 2012, 2012arXiv1203.2616C

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