COSMOS Weak Lensing Source Catalog Definitions

Overview

The COSMOS Weak Lensing Source Catalog is described in Leauthaud et al. (2007). Quality cuts and shear calibration have been applied. Where available, photo-zs have been replaced with speczs.

Name Intype Units Description
ra double deg Right Ascension (J2000)
dec double deg Declination (J2000)
zphot double photometric redshift
zp2 double redshift of secondary peak
photoz_low double photoz lower 68 percent confidence level
gamma1 double shear component gamma1
gamma2 double shear component gamma2
weight double weight