HST

I was co-Investigator on a number of HST proposals to observe strong gravitational lenses detected in SDSS-III (SLACS) and SDSS-IV (BELLS), which led to a number of publications. There are significant challenges remaining in the data analysis in order to dissect these galaxies in luminous and dark components, and there are new candidates from SDSS-IV (SILO) that are ideal for followup HST imaging.

HST Approved Programs
Cycle 2310/2015 – 12/2017
HST-GO-14189
Quantifying Cold Dark Matter Substructure with a Qualitatively New Gravitational Lens Sample.
Cycle 2001/2012 – 12/2016
HST-AR-12833
The Master Lens Database and The Orphan Lenses Project.
Cycle 1810/2010 – 12/2012
HST-SNAP-12210
SLACS for the Masses: Extending Strong Lensing to Lower Masses and Smaller Radii.
Cycle 1810/2010 – 12/2012
HST-GO-12209
A Strong Lensing Measurement of the Evolution of Mass Structure in Giant Elliptical Galaxies.
BOSS Emission-Line Lensing Survey (BELLS)
BELLS Publications
 ApJ (2012 ) 744 41
 168 Citations
The BOSS Emission-Line Lens Survey (BELLS). I. A Large Spectroscopically Selected Sample of Lens Galaxies at Redshift ~0.5
 ApJ (2012 ) 757 82
 161 Citations
The BOSS Emission-Line Lens Survey. II. Investigating Mass-density Profile Evolution in the SLACS+BELLS Strong Gravitational Lens Sample
 ApJ (2016 ) 824 86
 73 Citations
The BOSS Emission-line Lens Survey. III. Strong Lensing of Lyα Emitters by Individual Galaxies
 ApJ (2016 ) 833 264
 90 Citations
The BOSS Emission-line Lens Survey. IV. Smooth Lens Models for the BELLS GALLERY Sample
 ApJL (2017 ) 834 L18
 17 Citations
Discovery of a Very Bright and Intrinsically Very Luminous, Strongly Lensed Lyα Emitting Galaxy at z = 2.82 in the BOSS Emission-Line Lens Survey
 ApJ (2018 ) 853 148
 26 Citations
The BOSS Emission-line Lens Survey. V. Morphology and Substructure of Lensed Lyα Emitters at Redshift Z ≈ 2.5 in the BELLS GALLERY
 MNRAS (2020 ) 492 1257
 21 Citations
Rest-frame UV properties of luminous strong gravitationally lensed Lyα emitters from the BELLS GALLERY Survey

BELLS Confirmed Gravitational Lenses

The figures below show the HST images for the BELLS confirmed lenses, including the combined and rectified exposures (left panel) and the foreground subtracted image to reveal the strongly lensed background galaxy.


Color Scale