Speaker
R. Benton Metcalf
(Univerity of Bologna)
Description
The Euclid mission is expected to discover perhaps two orders of magnitude
more strong gravitational lenses than are known today. These will be quasar-galaxy,
galaxy-galaxy and galaxy-cluster lenses. I will discuss what is required to find and
process such a large number of lenses. I will then describe what can be learned from
these lenses with respect to the dark matter distribution, cosmology and gravitational theory. In the process I will discuss new methods for analysing lensing data.
Author
R. Benton Metcalf
(Univerity of Bologna)
