Séminaires

Weak Lensing et Energie Noire: La Suite

par Carlo Schimd (CEA-Saclay)

Europe/Paris
Amphithéâtre

Amphithéâtre

Description
Current, forthcoming, and planned weak-lensing surveys are advocated as a powerful tool to investigate dark energy. Is it a cosmological constant, a fluid-like dynamic component, a signature of the general relativity's failure, or a signature that general relativity is not yet fully exploited? Here, I present a geometric description of weak-lensing which allows for the contribution of tensor perturbations (GWs) in a non-flat RW geometry, and which turns suitable to deal with every metric theory of gravity. I focus on the signatures on cosmic shear observables by scalar-tensor theories and ordinary quintessence scenarios, using CFHTLS data combined with SNe and CMB data to constrain two simple models. The analysis is done in perspective of a DUNE-like space-based wide field imager.