Shear bias

shear_bias is a package that contains tools and scripts for shear bias estimation for weak gravitational lensing analysis.

Authors

• Martin Kilbinger martin.kilbinger@cea.fr
• Arnau Pujol arnaupv@gmail.com

Installation

Download the code from the github repository.

git clone https://github.com/cosmostat/shear_bias

A directory shear_bias is created. There, call the setup script to install the package.

cd shear_bias
python setup.py install

You might have to use sudo in front of the setup command, if you have the root password. Alternatively, you can install the package from within a virtual environment, or use the option --prefix DIR to install it in a directory DIR of your choice.

External programs and libraries

The following packages should be installed:

• galsim

Content

• shear_bias

  Python scripts with the shear_bias module functions and classes.

• notebooks

  Jupyter notebooks

  • shear_bias_example.ipynb

    Example notebook using galsim

Reference

Pujol, Kilbinger, Sureau & Bobin (2018) arXiv ads.