Cosmology through arc statistics I: sensitivity to Ω<sub>m</sub>and σ<sub>8</sub>
Cosmology through arc statistics I: sensitivity to Ω<sub>m</sub>and σ<sub>8</sub>
The next generation of large sky photometric surveys will finally be able to use arc statistics as a cosmological probe. Here, we present the first of a series of papers on this topic. In particular, we study how arc counts are sensitive to the variation of two cosmological parameters: the …