Cosmic Shear with Einstein Rings

@article{Birrer2018CosmicSW,
  title={Cosmic Shear with Einstein Rings},
  author={Simon Birrer and Alexandre R{\'e}fr{\'e}gier and Adam Amara},
  journal={The Astrophysical Journal},
  year={2018},
  volume={852}
}
We explore a new technique to measure cosmic shear using Einstein rings. In Birrer et al. (2017), we showed that the detailed modelling of Einstein rings can be used to measure external shear to high precision. In this letter, we explore how a collection of Einstein rings can be used as a statistical probe of cosmic shear. We present a forecast of the cosmic shear information available in Einstein rings for different strong lensing survey configurations. We find that, assuming that the number… 
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