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