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Dark matter under the microscope: Constraining compact dark matter with caustic crossing events
Jose M. Diego, Nick Kaiser, Tom Broadhurst +12
A galaxy cluster acts as a cosmic telescope over background galaxies but also as a cosmic microscope of the lens imperfections. The diverging magnification of lensing caustics enha…
astro-ph.GA2017
Extreme magnification of a star at redshift 1.5 by a galaxy-cluster lens
Patrick L. Kelly, Jose M. Diego, Steven Rodney +42
Galaxy-cluster gravitational lenses can magnify background galaxies by a total factor of up to ~50. Here we report an image of an individual star at redshift z=1.49 (dubbed "MACS J…