Tuesday

Abstract

Title of Abstract

Cosmology from the Kilo-Degree Survey

Date Submitted

2017-04-07 17:11:23

Author

Catherine Heymans

Co-Authors

Institution

University of Edinburgh

Summary (maximum 250 words)

I will present the first cosmological parameter constraints from the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS), an ongoing ESO survey that studies the growth of structures and the expansion history of the Universe using weak gravitational lensing. Interestingly our analysis finds a low-redshift universe that is rather different from the predictions of the Planck CMB experiment. I will discuss whether this tension could arise from systematic uncertainties in either probe, or whether it is evidence for a Universe that is more exotic than the standard LambdaCDM model.

Schedule

Talk start

09:00