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Gravitational Lensing & Stellar Dynamics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2006

L.V.E. Koopmans*
Affiliation:
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, PO Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands
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Abstract

Strong gravitational lensing and stellar dynamics provide two complementary and orthogonal constraints on the density profiles of galaxies. Based on spherically symmetric, scale-free, mass models, it is shown that the combination of both techniques is powerful in breaking the mass-sheet and mass-anisotropy degeneracies. Second, observational results are presented from the Lenses Structure & Dynamics (LSD) Survey and the Sloan Lens ACS (SLACS) Survey collaborations to illustrate this new methodology in constraining the dark and stellar density profiles, and mass structure, of early-type galaxies to redshifts of unity.

Type
Research Article
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© EAS, EDP Sciences, 2006

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