no code implementations • 23 Jan 2019 • James. W. Nightingale, Richard J. Massey, David R. Harvey, Andrew P. Cooper, Amy Etherington, Sut-Ieng Tam, Richard G. Hayes
We investigate how strong gravitational lensing can test contemporary models of massive elliptical (ME) galaxy formation, by combining a traditional decomposition of their visible stellar distribution with a lensing analysis of their mass distribution.
Astrophysics of Galaxies Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics