Abstract

Contributed Talk - Splinter Euclid

Wednesday, 20 September 2017, 15:00   (HS2)

Weak lensing science with Euclid: An overview

T. Schrabback^1
1Argelander-Institut für Astronomie, Universität Bonn, Auf dem Hügel 71, 53121, Bonn, Germany

Weak gravitational lensing is one of the two primary techniques for the extraction of cosmological information from the \it Euclid data. I will provide a brief introduction into the field and illustrate some of the measurements that will be enabled by \it Euclid.