Gravitational Lensing by Galaxies
• Galaxy lensing of background quasars leads to
image separations on scales of arcseconds.
Multiple images.
• Must confirm not binary quasars – sometimes
easy, sometimes difficult.  How do you do this?
• Lens/binary quasar database: CASTLES
• http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/castles/
• Note that lens modeling software by Keeton is
publicly available on this page.