Initial results from a laboratory emulation of weak gravitational lensing measurements
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*S. Seshadri, C. Shapiro, T. Goodsall, J. Fucik, C. Hirata, J.D. Rhodes, B.T.P. Rowe, R.M. Smith Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, MS 300-315, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA California Institute of Technology, MC 11-17, 1200 East California Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91125 Department of Physics & Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK Contact information: *[email protected]; phone: (818)-354-8370; fax: (818)-393-0045
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تاریخ انتشار 2013