Imaging the invisible : constraining dark matter distributions in galaxy clusters using strong gravitational lensing

Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2005. === Includes bibliographical references (leaves 71-72). === In this thesis, I design and construct a Monte-Carlo gravitational lensing simulation that statistically studies the strong lensing of extended galactic sources b...

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Main Author: Corless, Virginia Leigh
Other Authors: Samuel A. Rappaport and Scott M. Burles.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2006
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/32839