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A Catalog of Mass Models for Gravitational Lensing

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arxiv astro-ph/0102341 v2 pith:UYQFE5FR submitted 2001-02-20 astro-ph

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Many different families of mass models are used in modern applications of strong gravitational lensing. I review a wide range of popular models, with two points of emphasis: (1) a discussion of strategies for building models suited to a particular lensing problem; and (2) a summary of technical results for a canonical set of models. All of the models reviewed here are included in publicly-available lensing software called gravlens.

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