LENSMAGPAU

Studying Gravitational Lensing Magnification with PAU and other Surveys

Coordinatore	INSTITUT D'ESTUDIS ESPACIALS DE CATALUNYA FUNDACION    more  Organization address address: GRAN CAPITA 2-4 OESPATX 201 city: BARCELONA postcode: 8034 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Montes Cognome: Pilar Email: send email Telefono: +34 932 802 088
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Spain [ES]
Totale costo	45˙000 €
EC contributo	45˙000 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2010-RG
Funding Scheme	MC-ERG
Anno di inizio	2011
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2011-05-01   -   2014-04-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	INSTITUT D'ESTUDIS ESPACIALS DE CATALUNYA FUNDACION  Organization address address: GRAN CAPITA 2-4 OESPATX 201 city: BARCELONA postcode: 8034 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Montes Cognome: Pilar Email: send email Telefono: +34 932 802 088	ES (BARCELONA)	coordinator	45˙000.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'I plan to study the large-scale magnification of galaxies and quasars due to gravitational lensing, advancing the technique of magnification measurement for the purpose of investigating dark matter and dark energy. In particular, I will work on detecting the lensing mass autocorrelation function by studying galaxy-galaxy correlations in three dimensions, and I will also work to develop quasar magnification analyses using variability as a new and useful technique in studying large scale structure. These projects combine aspects of gravitational lensing, large scale structure, and quasar physics research. In order to facilitate these and other analyses, I plan to take a leading role in the calibration of the Physics of the Accelerating Universe (PAU) survey, a Spanish collaboration set to start taking data in 2012. The survey is designed for the optimal ground-based measurement of three-dimensional galaxy correlations, which will allow for the first measurement of the lensing mass-mass correlation function as well as precise measurements of the galaxy-mass and galaxy-galaxy correlation functions. These results will place valuable constraints on cosmological parameters describing the behavior of dark matter and dark energy.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

In Einstein's theory of general relativity, the presence of matter curves space time, and as a result the path of a light ray is deflected. EU-funded scientists exploited this effect, known as gravitational lensing, to measure the distribution of matter in the Universe.