Weak lensing cosmology will be challenging: in addition to highly accurate galaxy shape measurements, statistically robust and accurate photometric redshift (photo - z) estimates for
billions of faint galaxies will be needed in order to reconstruct the three - dimensional matter distribution.
Many other potential applications of this dataset are explored in the series of papers, and they include studying the
role of faint galaxies during cosmic reionisation (starting just 380,000 years after the Big Bang), galaxy merger rates when the Universe was young, galactic winds, star formation as well as mapping the motions of stars in the early Universe.
They used images from the UltraVISTA survey, one of six projects using VISTA to survey the sky at near - infrared wavelengths, and made a
census of faint galaxies when the age of the Universe was between just 0.75 and 2.1 billion years old.
This project, known as the Sloan survey, will involve the imaging of
millions of faint galaxies all over the sky, and should provide the necessary data to determine the total amount of mass in the Local Supercluster and the coma cluster.
Four centuries later, the Hubble Space Telescope turned its 2.4 - meter mirror towards a seemingly blank patch of the sky (the Hubble Deep field) and revealed a hidden
universe of faint galaxies, proving that there must be upwards of a hundred billion galaxies in the visible Universe.
Orion SkyQuest XT8i IntelliScope Dobsonian: While this large 8 - inch Dobsonian telescope offered great
views of faint galaxies and nebulae in our tests, its time - intensive setup and many moving parts made it feel less accessible and portable than our top pick.
Weak lensing cosmology will be challenging: in addition to highly accurate galaxy shape measurements, statistically robust and accurate photometric redshift (photo - z) estimates for
billions of faint galaxies will... ▽ More A key goal of the Stage IV dark energy experiments Euclid, LSST and WFIRST is to measure the growth of structure with cosmic time from weak lensing analysis over large regions of the sky.
Grasping in the Dark The newfound dim galaxies in Coma are strange beasts, and they hark back to
some of the faint galaxies first uncovered in the late 1980s.