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GaBoDS: The garching-bonn deep survey. VII. Cosmic shear analysis

GaBoDS: The garching-bonn deep survey. VII. Cosmic shear analysis

Aims. We present a cosmic shear analysis and data validation of 15 square degree high-quality R-band data of the Garching-Bonn Deep Survey obtained with the Wide Field Imager of the MPG/ESO 2.2 m telescope. Methods. We measure the two-point shear correlation functions to calculate the aperture mass dispersion. Both statistics …