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Volume 20, 2006
Mass Profiles and Shapes of Cosmological Structures
Page(s) 161 - 166
DOI 10.1051/eas:2006064
Published online 19 May 2006

Mass Profiles and Shapes of Cosmological Structures
G.A. Mamon, F. Combes, C. Deffayet and B. Fort (eds)
EAS Publications Series, 20 (2006) 161-166

DOI: 10.1051/eas:2006064

Gravitational Lensing & Stellar Dynamics

L.V.E. Koopmans

Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, PO Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands


Abstract
Strong gravitational lensing and stellar dynamics provide two complementary and orthogonal constraints on the density profiles of galaxies. Based on spherically symmetric, scale-free, mass models, it is shown that the combination of both techniques is powerful in breaking the mass-sheet and mass-anisotropy degeneracies. Second, observational results are presented from the Lenses Structure & Dynamics (LSD) Survey and the Sloan Lens ACS (SLACS) Survey collaborations to illustrate this new methodology in constraining the dark and stellar density profiles, and mass structure, of early-type galaxies to redshifts of unity.



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