Timothy Schrabback

Tim Richard Walter Schrabback–Krahe is KIPAC Fellow at the Kavli Institute of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, which is based at Stanford University. He is working within the X-ray Astronomy and Observational Cosmology Group. His research focuses on weak gravitational lensing and its applications for cosmology and astrophysics.

•CFHTLens •Euclid •The MAD Cluster Survey[1]

Working within the Leiden Observatory,he led a team of scientists[2] conducting an intensive study of over 446 000 galaxies within the COSMOS survey[3] field, the result of the largest survey ever conducted with Hubble,showing independent confirmation that the expansion of the Universe is accelerated by an additional, mysterious component named dark energy. A handful of other such independent confirmations exist.[4][5]

See also

Accelerating expansion of the cosmos

dark matter

Calán/Tololo Survey

References

  1. ↑ http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~schrabba/
  2. ↑ T.Schrabback of the Leiden University. Other collaborators included: J. Hartlap (University of Bonn), B. Joachimi (University of Bonn), M. Kilbinger (IAP), P. Simon (University of Edinburgh), K. Benabed (IAP), M. Bradac (UCDavis), T. Eifler (University of Bonn), T. Erben (University of Bonn), C. Fassnacht (University of California, Davis), F. W. High(Harvard), S. Hilbert (MPA), H. Hildebrandt (Leiden Observatory), H. Hoekstra (Leiden Observatory), K. Kuijken (Leiden Observatory), P. Marshall (KIPAC), Y. Mellier (IAP), E. Morganson (KIPAC), P. Schneider (University of Bonn), E. Semboloni (University of Bonn), L. Van Waerbeke (UBC) and M. Velander (Leiden Observatory).
  3. ↑ http://ukads.nottingham.ac.uk/abs/2009ApJ...690.1236I
  4. ↑ http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1005/#1
  5. ↑ ESA/Hubble Information Centre (2010, March 25). Astronomers confirm Einstein's theory of relativity and accelerating cosmic expansion.

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