The foundational paper of galactic microlensing. The basic features
of galactic microlensing and its potential as a probe of massive compact objects as dark matter are discussed. This influential paper spurred a number of gravitational lensing experiments. (A)
While not the first attempt at reconstructing extended lensed sources,
this paper provides a good introduction to the topic: much of the galaxy-scale lens modeling work of the last decade builds on this paper. (A)
This classic paper marks the birth of microlensing, in making the jump from light deflection by our sun (as observed by Eddington, et al.) to that by other stars in our galaxy. (A)
This paper introduces a maximum likelihood algorithm for weak lensing mass reconstruction using a particle based method instead of the more conventional grid based method (A).
A recent and up-to-date paper on the distribution of stellar and dark matter in early-type galaxies using strong lensing, stellar kinematics, and other astrophysical tools. (A)
In this very influential paper, the authors used a small sample of gravitational lenses observed in the radio to infer limits on the presence of dark substructure. (A)
A concise paper that combines strong and weak lensing constraints with stellar kinematics to show that the initial mass function of massive (lens) galaxies is not consistent with light ones such as those advocated for spiral galaxies. (A)
The discovery of the first giant arcs is described in this classic paper; it marks the beginning of the study of cluster strong lenses as cosmic telescopes. (A)
At the time of writing, this is the most accurate measurement of Hubble's constant using a gravitational lens. This rather dense paper explores the most serious sources of systematic error, and includes their mitigation in the final uncertainty estimate. (A)
LensTool has been used extensively throughout the literature; this paper provides a good introduction and an overview of its more recently added capabilities. (A)
This paper describes mass measurements of a particular merging cluster system, the "Bullet Cluster," showing how gravitational lensing can be used to measure the mass of a structure that is not in dynamical equilibrium, and without assuming that "mass follows light." (In this case, it does not!) It also demonstrates how noise in the weak-lensing data can affect the centers of the inferred two-dimensional mass distributions.
This paper describes a type of lensing that is between the strong and weak-lensing limits: only single images are formed, but lensing introduces a measurable curvature to the galaxy shape. There is some theoretical promise for this "flexion" improving the combination of strong and weak-lensing data, but current attempts to measure the effect have shown it to be difficult.
This paper investigates an error that pervades mass measurements with weak lensing, namely the assumption of a spherical mass model when fitting a non-spherical system. It explores whether the departure from the expected
concentrations of certain clusters is a result of this effect. (A)
This paper investigates an error that pervades mass measurements with weak lensing, namely the assumption of a spherical mass model when fitting a non-spherical system. It gives theoretical expectations of the effect from N-body simulations and analytic tri-axial mass models. (A)
This paper describes a type of lensing that is between the strong and weak-lensing limits: only single images are formed, but lensing introduces a measurable curvature to the galaxy shape. There is some theoretical promise for this "flexion" improving the combination of strong and weak-lensing data, but current attempts to measure the effect have shown it to be difficult.
This paper investigates an error that pervades mass measurements with weak lensing, namely the assumption of a spherical mass model when fitting a non-spherical system. It gives theoretical expectations of the effect from N-body simulations and analytic tri-axial mass models. (A)
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