Comparisons between isothermal and NFW mass profiles for strong-lensing galaxy clusters

While both isothermal and NFW-based mass models for galaxy clusters are widely adopted in strong-lensing studies, they cannot easily be distinguished based solely on observed positions of arcs and arclets. We compare the magnifications predicted for giant arcs obtained from isothermal and NFW profil...

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Hauptverfasser: Shu, Chenggang (VerfasserIn) , Bartelmann, Matthias (VerfasserIn)
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Veröffentlicht: 10/09/06
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Verfasserangaben:Chenggang Shu, Binglu Zhou, Matthias Bartelmann, Julia M. Comerford, J.-S. Huang, Yannick Mellier

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