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Merijn Smit

Researcher at Leiden University

Publications -  6
Citations -  457

Merijn Smit is an academic researcher from Leiden University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Weak gravitational lensing & Estimator. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 6 publications receiving 432 citations.

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CFHTLenS: the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey – imaging data and catalogue products

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present data products from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS) data set and demonstrate that their data meet necessary requirements to fully exploit the survey for weak gravitational lensing analyses in connection with photometric redshift studies.
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The mass distribution in an assembling super galaxy group at $z=0.37$

TL;DR: In this paper, a weak gravitational lensing analysis of supergroup SG1120$-$1202, consisting of four distinct X-ray-luminous groups, that will merge to form a cluster comparable in mass to Coma at 0.
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Chasing the peak: optimal statistics for weak shear analyses

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore alternative statistics for samples of ellipticity measurements, and find that the least absolute deviations estimator is the most efficient estimator in almost all cases, except in the Gaussian case, where it is still competitive (0.83 η -3 ).
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Chasing the peak: optimal statistics for weak shear analyses

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore alternative statistics for samples of ellipticity measurements that are unbiased, efficient, and robust, taking the non-linear mapping of gravitational shear and the effect of noise into account.