Journal
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
Volume 816, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8205/816/2/L23
Keywords
galaxies: high-redshift; gravitational lensing: strong; methods: observational
Categories
Funding
- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago [NSF PHY-1125897]
- Kavli Foundation
- National Science Foundation [PHY 08-22648]
Ask authors/readers for more resources
The sample of cosmological strong lensing systems has been steadily growing in recent years and with the advent of the next generation of space-based survey telescopes, the sample will reach into the thousands. The accuracy of strong lens models relies on robust identification of multiple image families of lensed galaxies. For the most massive lenses, often more than one background galaxy is magnified and multiply imaged, and even in the cases of only a single lensed source, identification of counter images is not always robust. Recently, we have shown that the Gini coefficient in space-telescope-quality imaging is a measurement of galaxy morphology that is relatively well-preserved by strong gravitational lensing. Here, we investigate its usefulness as a diagnostic for the purposes of image family identification and show that it can remove some of the degeneracies encountered when using color as the sole diagnostic, and can do so without the need for additional observations since whenever a color is available, two Gini coefficients are as well.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available