A Catalog of Mass Models for Gravitational Lensing

Abstract

Many different families of mass models are used in modern applications of strong gravitational lensing. I review a wide range of popular models, with two points of emphasis: (1) a discussion of strategies for building models suited to a particular lensing problem; and (2) a summary of technical results for a canonical set of models. All of the models reviewed here are included in publicly-available lensing software called gravlens.

17 pages, AAS LaTeX; revised version has some new models and more analytic results; the accompanying software is available at http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/castles

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