Arc sensitivity to cluster ellipticity, asymmetries and substructures

We investigate how ellipticity, asymmetries and substructures separately affect the ability of galaxy clusters to produce strong lensing events, i.e. gravitational arcs, and how they influence the arc morphologies and fluxes. This is important for those studies aiming, for example, at constraining c...

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Main Authors: Meneghetti, Massimo (Author) , Pace, Francesco (Author) , Bartelmann, Matthias (Author)
Format: Article (Journal) Chapter/Article
Language:English
Published: February 4, 2008
In: Arxiv

Online Access:Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0606006
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Author Notes:Massimo Meneghetti, Rodolfo Argazzi, Francesco Pace, Lauro Moscardini, Klaus Dolag, Matthias Bartelmann, Guoliang Li, Masamune Oguri
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