Environments of Strong Gravitational Lenses

This dissertation focuses on determining the properties of the environments and the line-of-sight mass distributions for a sample of strong gravitational lenses as well as establishing their effects on the observed lens properties and the Hubble constant.Strong gravitational lenses ought to be able...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Momcheva, Ivelina Gospodinova
Other Authors: Zabludoff, Ann
Language:EN
Published: The University of Arizona. 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194102