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Lensed radio arcs at milli-arcsecond resolution: Methods, science results, and current status

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Powell,  Devon M.
Computational Structure Formation, MPI for Astrophysics, Max Planck Society;

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Powell, D. M. (2024). Lensed radio arcs at milli-arcsecond resolution: Methods, science results, and current status. In H. Stacey, A. Sonnenfeld, & C. Grillo (Eds.), IAUS 381: Strong gravitational lensing in the era of Big Data (pp. 46-51). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/S1743921323004106.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0010-9165-8
Abstract
Strong gravitational lensing by galaxies provides us with a powerful laboratory for testing dark matter models. Various particle models for dark matter give rise to different small-scale distributions of mass in the lens galaxy, which can be differentiated with sensitive observations. Th. The sensitivity of a gravitational lens observation to the presence (or absence) of low-mass dark structures in the lens galaxy is determined mainly by the angular resolution of the instrument and the spatial structure of the source. Here, I discuss results from the analysis of a global VLBI observation of a gravitationally lensed radio jet. With an angular resolution better than 5 milli-arcseconds and a highly extended, spatially resolved source, we are able to place competitive constraints on the particle mass in fuzzy dark matter models using this single observation. I also discuss preliminary results from our analysis of warm dark matter models using this lens system.