Gravitational lensing by X-ray luminous galaxy clusters

Since the discovery that the large-scale dynamics of galaxy clusters are dominated by dark matter, cosmologists have aspired to measure the spatial distribution of dark matter and identify its nature. Gravitational lensing, especially employing the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has emerged as the too...

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Main Author: Smith, Graham Peter
Published: Durham University 2002
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.252586