A toolbox for general elliptical gravitational lenses
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We introduce a formalism to describe 2D-Potentials for 2D-matter (or charge) distributions with arbitrary elliptical symmetry including varying eccentricity and twisting of the iso-density curves. We use this approach to describe elliptical matter distributions such as elliptical galaxies or clusters as gravitational lenses. Figures are available upon request: [email protected]
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9311021,
title = {A toolbox for general elliptical gravitational lenses},
author = {T. Schramm},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9311021},
year = {2007}
}
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