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 23 | 10/2015 – 12/2017 | HST-GO-14189Quantifying Cold Dark Matter Substructure with a Qualitatively New Gravitational Lens Sample. |
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Cycle 20 | 01/2012 – 12/2016 | HST-AR-12833The Master Lens Database and The Orphan Lenses Project. |
Cycle 18 | 10/2010 – 12/2012 | HST-SNAP-12210SLACS for the Masses: Extending Strong Lensing to Lower Masses and Smaller Radii. |
Cycle 18 | 10/2010 – 12/2012 | HST-GO-12209A 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.
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