A Catalog of Mass Models for Gravitational Lensing
Abstract
Many different families of mass models are used in modern applications of strong gravitational lensing. I review a wide range of popular models, with two points of emphasis: (1) a discussion of strategies for building models suited to a particular lensing problem; and (2) a summary of technical results for a canonical set of models. All of the models reviewed here are included in publicly-available lensing software called gravlens.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- February 2001
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/0102341
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/0102341
- Bibcode:
- 2001astro.ph..2341K
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 17 pages, AAS LaTeX