weak gravitational lensing

Weak lensing refers to the weak distortion of the light bundles reaching us from distant galaxies caused by tidal gravitational fields in the cosmic large-scale structure. Weak lensing is an excellent tool for investigating gravity on large scales, and we have worked on tomographic methods, cross-correlations and higher-order statistics of the weak lensing signal, as well as effects gravitational light deflection at second order. We would like to understand how one can reach a precision prediction of the weak lensing signal, how one can use the lensing signal as a cosmoogical probe, and what statistical properties the lensing signal has.