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Article Contents
- ABSTRACT
- 1.INTRODUCTION AND HISTORICAL
PERSPECTIVE
- 2.LENSING THEORY AS APPLIED TO CLUSTERS
OF GALAXIES
- 2.1.General description
- 2.2.Gravitational Lens Equation
- 2.3.Gravitational Lens Mapping
- 2.4.Critical and caustic lines
- 2.5.Multiple-images
- 2.5.1.Definition
- 2.5.2.Multiple-image symmetry
- 2.5.3.Examples of
multiple-image systems
- 2.5.4.Multiple-image
identification
- 2.5.5.Multiple-image regions
- 2.6.First order shape deformations
- Shear
- 2.7.Mass-sheet degeneracy
- 2.8.Higher order shape
deformations - Flexion
- 3.CONSTRAINING CLUSTER MASS
DISTRIBUTIONS
- 3.1.Strong lensing modeling
- 3.1.1.Modeling approaches
- 3.1.2.From simple to more
complex mass determinations
- 3.1.3.Modeling the various
cluster mass components
- 3.1.4.Bayesian modeling
- 3.2.Probing the radial profile of
the mass in cluster cores
- 3.3.Non-Parametric Strong Lensing
modeling
- 3.4.Cluster Weak lensing modeling
- 3.4.1.Weak lensing observations
- 3.4.2.Galaxy shape measurement
- 3.4.3.From galaxy shapes to
mass maps
- 3.4.4.Measuring total mass and
mass profiles
- 3.5.Cluster Triaxiality
- 4.MASS DISTRIBUTION OF CLUSTER SAMPLES
- 4.1.Early Work
- 4.2.On-going and future cluster
lensing surveys
- 4.3.Targeted cluster surveys
- 4.3.1.The Local Cluster
Substructure Survey (LoCuSS)
- 4.3.2.The MAssive Cluster
Survey
- 4.3.3.ESO distant cluster
survey
- 4.3.4.Red-sequence cluster
surveys
- 4.3.5.The Multi-Cluster Treasury: CLASH survey
- 4.4.Cluster lenses in wide
cosmological surveys
- 4.4.1.The Sloan Digital Sky
Survey
- 4.4.2.The CFHT-Legacy Survey
- 4.4.3.The COSMOS Survey
- 5.CLUSTER LENSES AS NATURE'S TELESCOPES
- 5.1.Magnification due to
Gravitational Lensing
- 5.2.Cosmic Telescope Surveys
- 5.3.“Lens redshift”
measurement
- 5.4.Lensing Surveys in the
Sub-millimeter
- 5.5.Mid-Infrared Lensing Survey
- 5.6.Lensed Extremely Red Objects
- 5.7.Lensed Lyman-a Emitters
- 5.7.1.Spectroscopic critical
line mapping
- 5.7.2.Narrow-band searches
- 5.8.Lyman-break Galaxies
- 5.9.Far Infra-Red Lensing Surveys
- 5.10.Cluster Lensed Supernovae
- 6.COSMOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS FROM CLUSTER
LENSING
- 6.1.Cosmography with
multiple-images
- 6.2.Arc statistics and Primordial
Non-gaussianity
- 6.3.Triplet statistics
- 7.COMPARISON OF OBSERVED LENSING CLUSTER
PROPERTIES WITH THEORETICAL PREDICTIONS
- 7.1.Internal structure of cluster
halos
- 7.2.Mass function of substructure
in cluster halos
- 7.3.Dynamical evolution of cluster
halos
- 7.4.Constraints on the nature of
dark matter
- 8.FUTURE PROSPECTS
- APPENDIX A: PARAMETRIC MASS
DISTRIBUTIONS USED TO MODEL CLUSTERS
- A.1.The Singular Isothermal
Sphere
- A.2.Truncated Isothermal
Distribution with a Core
- A.3.The Navarro-Frenk-White
Model
- A.4.Flexion for the Singular
Isothermal Sphere
- REFERENCES